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Capoeira in Beijing

Sexy Beijing looks at an unlikely martial art in Beijing: the Brazilian dancing fighting technique called capoeira.

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Here in Brazil capoeira is a bit different, it can start slowly as shown on video but it gets faster moviments that are more achrobatic and more agressive.

The fighters have to be barefoot even if it is a public demonstration like this on the street and I really miss the berimbau (a musical instrument) there's no capoeira here without one.

The brazilian capoeira would be : link

Best regards!

Elder J is a little confused. What he refers to as 'Brazilian capoeira' as if it were more authentic is capoeira regional, which is the more popular of the two styles today. Neither style is more 'real' capoeira than the other.

The style in the above video is capoeira angola, which is older, generally slower and with moves closer to the ground. In many ways, moving slower is harder, to be honest.

In the interests of disclosure, I should say that I study regional myself. Thanks for posting the video, by the way, now I have somewhere to keep practising capoeira when I come back to Beijing.

I love how capoeira is an art that is so universal. Even though it started in Brazil, it's now found in all continents (except Antarctica ;) ).

I've been training for almost a year, and I've seen how diverse the people are who play it. Not only race, but culture, financial background, religion and age are no limits for the art.

Thanks for the post showing the reach of capoeira and it's impact on a new culture.

-Bert

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