What up capoeiristas! Inst. Caxixi here! Like I always say,

everyone has a spot in this podcast, doesn’t matter your level, where you come

from, doesn’t matter what is your group or even if you don’t do capoeira,

that’s valid too, all I want to do is help OUR capoeira community. So today I

have the pleasure to have one of my hommies from LA! I met this guy my very

first time I went to LA in 2013, we have been following each other journey

since then and I am very excited to go back to see you and play some capoeira

with you again and do your class, today I want to introduce you to Inst. Quebrado

from Capoeira Brasil LA!..

Before we start, what are your social medias or how people

can find you?

Instagram Here

Instagram Classes in Burbank Here

Facebook Here

Website Here

[00:05:50] Caxixi:

Speaking about social media, dude I see that you are killing it on social media

man!!… Tell us what are you tricks man! how do you make so much noise in

social media?

Quebrado: I think

with social media it’s really tricky my point I have no idea what I’m doing, is

working sometimes it doesn’t work sometimes it does work really good you gotta

know what they want they are waiting for something that they wanna see, they

are waiting for that cool trick, or they are waiting for that moment in the

roda and then hashtags help a lot, #Capoeira #CapoeiraBrasil #Rio #SaoPaulo

#Brazil #berimbau #Africa #axe is like different hastangs a lot of people that

I know, sometimes I do it go a research #Capoeira and go over 100 post and see

who is doing what and like people’s hashtag with #Capoeira.

[00:08:11] Caxixi:

so, lets jump back on time for a sec here, and tell me a little bit of your

story man, how did you get into capoeira?

Quebrado: in 2006

I moved to America to California from Lebanon, from an Armenian family,

Armenian descents, no capoeira, we only had people in breakdancing and hip-hop,

I was always active I was like 8 years old and I had my own hip-hop class and

it was like no space like underneath in a building that wasn’t built yet I had

like 3 students like couple years younger than me they paid me with like a

chocolate or half a dollar you know with coins stuff that I never took a class

before I just liked the movement I kind of follow and followed this guy he was

a really good hip-hop dancer back in Lebanon, he’s still kind of famous right

now he is a dancer big choreographer so I kind of started hip-hop with him and

we started breakdancing as a whole group of good friends like 6 or 7 of us so

we go together we train together and I was kind of dedicated you know I wanted

to be good at it, I was a little more chubbier and I just wanted to do something

and stick with it and a month or two later they were all gone nobody stayed

there and then was me and the teacher this is amazing is like private right

now, the I started to getting better breakdancing, and then I started b-boying

more and more, 2004, 2005, and then at 2006 moved to California actually I’ve

seen capoeira once in Lebanon, in the dance school there were couple morocco

guys, from morocco, and they just showed up and I think there were dancers that

they’ve done capoeira before then,

What up capoeiristas! Inst. Caxixi here! Like I always say, everyone has a spot in this podcast, doesn’t matter your level, where you come from, doesn’t matter what is your group or even if you don’t do capoeira, that’s valid too, all I want to do is help OUR capoeira community. So today I have … Continue reading "10 Inst Quebrado CBLA"

What’s going on Capoeira world!!… Inst. Caxixi here!… As

I always say, on this podcast everyone gets interviewed, any experience works

to help our community grow, so today I have the pleasure to have as a guest one

of my Capoeira Brothers, you know when you travel and you meet new people and

you just click with them, he is been doing capoeira for 5 years, and I met him

my first time I went to Chicago and since then we became really good

hommies!!… He is student of Professor Saracuru from Capoeira Brasil Downtown

LA. I want to introduce you to Bambu!!

 [00:01:45] Caxixi: How are you doing man

over there?

Bambu: good man,

just enjoying the raining southern California

 [00:02:38] Caxixi: So, I like to start the

episodes with our guest stories, now tell me when and how did you start

capoeira?

Bambu: ok so I

tried capoeira a few times when I young one when I was 16 ones again like at 20

something years old I really caught on when I met my professor, professor Saracuru,

I met him walking one day and he was like “yo, why don’t you come a try

the class?” and I’m like “alright yeah!!”

my mom lives in downtown, coincidently on the same block

that he does, so I just happened to be there and yeah just randomly ran into

them just a conversation that was brought up, I was already doing martial arts

at the time I was already doing judo, but I was kind of like uh falling you

know.

 [00:13:18] Caxixi: how many times per week

do you train?

Bambu: so that’s

a tough one it depends on the week, average it used to be I can tell you this

right now for sure is twice a week but I’m gonna start wrapping it up I used to

train every day like every day you know every day we would go we would meet up,

or we said let go to a park.

 [00:15:38] Caxixi: have Capoeira been

helping you on something?

Bambu: I mean I

would definitely agree with that, outside from right now, how nervous I am

right now you know, but usually you know I’m very hey what’s up what’s

happening, you know very out there, very out spoken, I mean I try to be out

spoken, it really brought out my personality it gave me like a confidence that I

never had before to be honest, it really gave me strength, like a different

kind of strength.

[00:24:24] Caxixi:

if you must describe capoeira with one word, what it would be??

Bambu: man, that’s

a tough one, if I have to say one word I would say “inspiring”

 [00:37:49] Caxixi: Are you planning on

traveling for any events?

Bambu: there’s the big one for this year is in July Mestre Paulinho

sabia is having his batizado in Brazil so that ticket is not cheap, so I think

that’s gonna be the one for this year.

 [00:38:25] Caxixi: how many times have you

travel in these 5 years?  even locally?

Bambu: like

locally, vie been Chicago, san Francisco, san Diego Mexicali I went to Colombia

couple years ago

[00:41:33] Caxixi:

what is your favorite song?

Bambu: there’s a

lot of songs out there, I usually like very simple songs, you know the song

“laa laaue, laaue laaua” something about the sound that pumps me up

What’s going on Capoeira world!!… Inst. Caxixi here!… As I always say, on this podcast everyone gets interviewed, any experience works to help our community grow, so today I have the pleasure to have as a guest one of my Capoeira Brothers, you know when you travel and you meet new people and you just … Continue reading "09 Bambu Morales GCB DTWLA"

What’s up everybody, today we are having the pleasure of interviewing a capoeirista with personal training, with Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu experience. and he is also in Charge of the classes of the group Capoeira Ache Brasil in Calgary, Canada.

[00:01:34] Caxixi – Let’s start from the beginning

of your experience, tell me your capoeira story.

[00:01:44] Sua – I’m

originally from Russia and immigrated when I was a kid to Israel and capoeira

is very big in Israel is huge huge huge like every city has capoeira in Israel,

and when I was 13 I started training in 2002 in a city called Eilat it’s a very

hot city kind of looks like brazil you know is a little warm and I actually had

the opportunity to start with a teacher when we moved to that city so before

that no was no capoeira there and when the teacher moved at that time was

monitor Mimi, now is a Mestre, at that time I moved to the city and started

training no I was one of the fist students and few years after that I moved to Canada

and continued capoeira in Canada but I started originally in Israel in the Group

Corado de Ouro.

[00:04:57] Caxixi

– how did you get your nickname?

Sua – I came from

Group Corado de Ouro and I started when I was 13 so at 13 years old you are

looking for who you are as a human being as a teenager what are you going to

do, and luckily I was able to start Capoeira and live that life as a kid as a

teenager, and when I moved to Canada all I knew was Group Corado de Ouro so

like Mestre Coquinho, it was very specific training and when I moved to Canada

groups here actually must of them are from Recife and the capoeira from Recife

is very different you know they play a lot of banguela, a lot of regional so

the capoeira is very different. so, when I came, I was playing in the rodas and

everything and all the song I was singing you know they were like oh Suasuna, Suasuna

so they started to call me Suasuna.

[00:19:58] Caxixi – How do you keep your

motivation to train and to teach?

Sua – I think is

very healthy to have like a community it could be even on WhatsApp or whatever,

we have a like WhatsApp group with my Mestre with all the teacher in our group

and all the time all every day you get different video of people training like

“oh I did toady 1000 kick” “I did today this” “I did

today that” all the time so you almost feel accountable to always training

always put some videos that you are training we are from all different towns

and the only way to connect is that and that one way, just to have to be accountable

weather is for people to be like I wanna out that nice Instagram capoeira video

twice a week so people comment on that, so I try to do different things like

that, I go to the gym I start working out, lifting weights listening to capoeira

music sometimes half way through is like I’m done go to the court do some kicks

do some movements is crazy but I think when you are excited you’re passion and

you feel committed to teach your students good information then you have to be committed

you have to be training outside of class because I think in town where is not a

lot of capoeira we have hustle more, we have teach more classes, then different

areas of the town and that leave us less time to training and really focus on

what we need as teachers how do we grow an specific skills is very important to

set those session at side like is off the class before class is like what do I

What’s up everybody, today we are having the pleasure of interviewing a capoeirista with personal training, with Mixed Martial Arts and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu experience. and he is also in Charge of the classes of the group Capoeira Ache Brasil in Calgary, Canada. [00:01:34] Caxixi – Let’s start from the beginning of your experience, tell me … Continue reading "08 Inst Sua Ache Brasil, Calgary – Canada"

What up Capoeiristas!! This is your host Inst. Caxixi!! And todays episode we (and BY WE I MEAN YOU AND I) are having a very very good friend of mine!! I met this person a while ago as always Capoeira does, in a Capoeira event and since then we have been good friends!! and I am very happy to have you with us INSTRUTORA VALENTE!!!!!! From Capoeira Brasil Cali Desert!! SO happy to have you here today!!! How are you doing my friend??

[00:01:25] – Valente: I’m good thank you so much for

having me, I’m excited to be on your podcast

[00:01:30] – Caxixi – Yes Yes thank you for making

the time, the little window for sharing this experience, so like any interview I’m

gonna start from the beginning, from your very beginning on Capoeira, so when

you started from the first day until today and you can start however you want.

[00:01:55] – Valente

– ok so actually I sing up for my first capoeira class in San Diego at

university California San Diego, in the year 2000 and was a recreating class

from campus and unfortunately last minute before I started the class I had to

change my academic curse schedule to another class that was schedule on the Capoeira

nights and I was sad I already paid for it so actually one of my best guy friends

at the time I said “hey you know have you hear about Capoeira?” and

he said “no” and I said “well it is this kind of like breakdance

thing you should check it out” and I said “I paid you should take my

spot” and he ended up becoming very good capoeirista practicing every day

for a few years and I went to his batizado I believe 2003/2004 and I saw him

and his friends doing Capoeira at a party in about I think was 2005 then I said

ok that’s really cool but I wanna learn breakdancing.

so I moved to Seattle after san Diego and I was living up

there 2005/2006 and 2006 ok I can’t find a breakdancing class but there is a capoeira

class, I’m gonna try then breakdancing from Capoeira so I went to group axe

capitol hill in Seattle and an amazing class it was Coquinho who was the

instructor at the time and it was a great group very very friendly and after

the first class I said ok I don’t care about breakdancing Capoeira is it, Capoeira

is my thing and I knew from day one that it was for me for the rest of my life.

[00:05:30] – Caxixi:

What is the story behind your nick name, Valente?

Valente: I

receive my name I believe after a year, year and a half in Capoeira, end one

thing that anyone who remember, when I first started in Capoeira in los Angeles,

I didn’t really have a good understanding in my level compare to people much

more experienced so I’d play in the roda as if I’ve much more experience than I

did I’m sure didn’t look that great but I didn’t care I just went forward, I

played every one very hard and thankfully I did not die in that processes but

just had no sense of fear at all I just didn’t have any worries about it I just

went forward I just loved it so much that I didn’t care, and no matter how it

looked so I be alive that’s why I got the name “Valente”

[00:08:08] – Caxixi:

What do you think about the business and Capoeira? Your own perspective on how

or what do you think about those combination?

so I’m in a interesting situation because Mestre Mindinho

and I actually created a non-profit for our academy, I receive no income at all

for teaching and we put a lot of heart and soul into this so for me it...

What up Capoeiristas!! This is your host Inst. Caxixi!! And todays episode we (and BY WE I MEAN YOU AND I) are having a very very good friend of mine!! I met this person a while ago as always Capoeira does, in a Capoeira event and since then we have been good friends!! and I … Continue reading "07 Instra Valente GCB Cali Desert"

Whatup whatup Capoeiristas!! I am your host Inst. Caxixi… So for this episode, I have the very big honored to bring to our show one of the many Capoeiristas that I personally admire a lot, this is MESTRE MINDINHO from Grupo Capoeira Brasil, Cali Desert, Puebla Mexico, and other schools!!!

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[00:01:16] Caxixi: How you started in Capoeira, from the first time you saw it?

[00:01:32] M. Mindinho:

Well is Basic, I started as a kid, I started since 11 years old in Brazil,

I am from Rio de Janeiro, and like everybody else a funny story, is just like I

heard about capoeira some times on TV but I never really have any experience with

capoeira, but I was in school, and have this girl that I had a crush on it, and

she come to me and said “oh I’m going to my first capoeira class today” I said “wow

that’s awesome, let’s go together” and I went with her, we took the first class

together, it was really fun, she never came back and I’m still here today!

[00:04:05] Caxixi:

Everyone in Capoeira, obviously, each of us have a nick name, capoeira apelido,

how did you get the Mindinho? How People find you as Mindiho?

[00:04:18] M. Mindinho:

That was very natural, like when I started Capoeira at 11, I was very very

short, small and my teacher used to teach class just for adults, for long time

I was the only kid in class, everybody was huge in class I was the little one, “Mindinho”,

mini, like a Pinky, and that’s why, like a little finger, then I was the little

one in class.

[00:14:00] Caxixi:

What do you think about the good benefits that capoeira, I know is many, but

the benefits that capoeira brings to society, like how do you think that can

help our communities?

[00:00:00] M. Mindinho:

well has so many ways in Capoeira, is amazing, has so many stories,

capoeira has work with refugees, that’s advantage in our communities around the

world, but I wanna go a little more specific, to United States, because I’ve

been here for 16 years now and those years has been absorbed how capoeira works.

One of the main things is I think Capoeira has really help many communities in

the United States, is about create an open community, like a family sense.

M. Mindinho’s Social Media:

Check M. Mindinho’s Website Here

M. Mindinho’s Instagram Here: @mindinhovalente

FaceBook Here

Whatup whatup Capoeiristas!! I am your host Inst. Caxixi… So for this episode, I have the very big honored to bring to our show one of the many Capoeiristas that I personally admire a lot, this is MESTRE MINDINHO from Grupo Capoeira Brasil, Cali Desert, Puebla Mexico, and other schools!!! [wordpress] [00:01:16] Caxixi: How you … Continue reading "06 Mestre Mindinho GCB Cali Desert"