Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
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5 Mestre Bimba and the development of ‘Regional’ style Martial arts and modernity From the 1930s onwards capoeira underwent majo ...
Finally Bimba has to be seen in the context of the emergence of modern sports and more particularly, the systematization of comb ...
capoeira used a rabo de arraia which hit his opponent’s head. In the second version, he first spit or threw sand in Miako’s eyes ...
(a capoeira technique called peneirar). He advocated weight lifting and skipping as complementary exercises, and boxing, fencing ...
this man. Some mention his extraordinary dexterity, being able to do a somersault from a tenuous onion box.^20 For a number of y ...
sent him to the ground with a kick on the chest. The large audience chanted ‘Bimba is tough’ (‘Bimba é bamba’) and he was declar ...
ultimately meant adapting his style to that particular type of contest. Grabbing and wrestling was not part of capoeira fighting ...
head was initially pointing downwards (see Figure 5.2).^39 The ‘balloons’ soon became the most polemical movements used by Bimba ...
Beginners were treated with some regard. Advanced students for instance were not allowed to throw them to the ground with a swee ...
produced by the school in the 1960s: ‘We intend to offer you a complete course in personal defense of the highest efficiency’.^4 ...
himself was a spiritual son of the warrior God Xangô and the orixá of the Ocean, Iemanjá. At the age of 20 he was initiated in a ...
choreographed game including the acrobatic balões. The final and most difficult test consisted in playing with an advanced stude ...
Decriminalization came soon in the form of a certificate that a teaching inspector issued on 9 July 1937 to Mestre Bimba, acknow ...
The well known [sic] capoeirista Mestre Bimba brought to our awareness the violence of which he was a victim yesterday at 10:40 ...
former rebel officer] Prestes and ‘Návio negreiro’ [Slave ship, a famous Abolitionist poem] by Castro Alves.^78 According to ano ...
academy.^83 The influence of middle-class students on his teaching methods and the organization of his academy are therefore und ...
capoeira, the heritage of Angola, has nothing to do with Bimba’s’. Later Jorge Amado, the most celebrated Bahian writer, invoked ...
‘elements which reaffirm the ethnic identity in songs, berimbau toques and the very movements’. In her view Regional established ...
lifestyle, the imposition of fines on students and other disciplinary measures were intended to impose new patterns of behaviour ...
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