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Grupo Candeias was founded at the SESC Club in the university sector in 1977 in Goiânia, Goias, Brazil.. In that time the group was called Grupo de Capoeira Anglo Regional and the first groups teacher was Carlos Antonio (Carlinhos Chuchu).
Capoeira Regional is a style of capoeira created by Bimba's reform of traditional capoeira in the 1930s. Capoeira regional is presented as a Brazilian product and as a legitimate and effective martial art. [1] The base of capoeira regional is the traditional capoeira Angola without many of the aspects that were impractical in a real fight ...
Grupo Capoeira Brasil was founded on January 14, 1989, by Luis Roberto Simas, Paulo César da Silva Sousa, and Paulão Sales Neto known in the capoeira community by their nome de guerra: Mestre Boneco, [1] Mestre Paulinho Sabiá [2] and Mestre Paulão Ceará, [3] respectively.
Nowadays the label Contemporânea applies to any capoeira group who don't follow Regional or Angola styles, even the ones who mix capoeira with other martial arts. Some notable groups whose style cannot be described as either Angola or Regional but rather "a style of their own", include Senzala de Santos, Cordão de Ouro and Abada.
Bimba strongly believed capoeira had an extraordinary value as a self-defense martial art, hence his efforts to develop its learning in a structured and methodical way. Bimba developed a capoeira teaching method with commandments, principles and traditions, which are still part of the capoeira regional up to this day. Some of his commandments are:
Grupo Senzala was the most famous capoeira group in Brazil, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. It strongly influenced the teaching methods of capoeira and the style of the game. [1] Modern Senzala is a result of the Senzala Group of the 1970s. Some critics find that in today's Senzala "everyone playing the same way", robot-fashion and ...
The Associação Brasileira de Apoio e Desenvolvimento da Arte-Capoeira (ABADÁ-Capoeira), in English translated as "The Brazilian Association for the Support and Development of the Art of Capoeira", [1] is a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to spread and support Brazilian culture through the practice of capoeira. [2]
A batizado (literally "baptism" in Portuguese, and borrowed from the religious tradition) is normally an annual event for a capoeira group in a region or country. The practice originates from capoeira regional, but has been widely used by capoeira contemporânea groups. [1]