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Mestre (title)
In the Brazilian martial art capoeira, the title ''mestre'' designates the master practitioner. Manuel dos Reis Machado, also known as Mestre Bimba, is credited with transforming capoeira from a street activity to a sport. Notable capoeira mestres * Mestre Acordeon * Mestre Bimba * Mestre Braga * Mestre Canjiquinha * Mestre Cobra Mansa * Mestre Cobrinha Verde * Mestre Gato Preto * Mestre João Grande * Mestre João Pequeno * Mestre Moraes * Mestre Pastinha * Mestre Sinhozinho * Mestre Waldemar * Mestre Zuma * Mestre Leopoldina * Mestre Curió References Sources * Capoeira mestres Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality. Born of the melting pot of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians and Portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th century, ... Titles {{Martialart-term-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Pereira Dos Santos
João Pereira dos Santos or Mestre João Pequeno de Pastinha (27 December 1917 – 9 December 2011) as he was known within capoeira circles. He began his life in Capoeira as a student of Mestre Gilvenson (C. Daniel Dawson's book "Capoeira Angola and Mestre João Grande" cites Mestre Barbosa as João Pequeno's first teacher, ''see Mestre João Grande'') and later became a disciple of Mestre Pastinha - the father of contemporary Capoeira Angola. Together with Mestre João Grande he is later to share the honour of being one of the late Mestre Pastinha's two most learned students - the ones to whom he entrusted his legacy. Mestre João Pequeno died on 9 December 2011 at the age of 93. In 1970, Mestre Pastinha said the following about João Pequeno, "He will be the greatest Capoeira players of the future and I have worked hard with him, and for him, to achieve this. He will be a true master. Not just impromptu teacher, as can be found anywhere, who only destroy our tradition which is so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Curió
Mestre Curió is a capoeira Angola mestre from Salvador, Brazil, known for his deceptive fighting style. He was a disciple of mestre Pastinha. Curió has been known to feign injuries, call women from the audience into the ''roda'' for protection, and threaten opponents with hidden weapons. He also uses a variety of facial expressions, shouts, and pauses to distract his opponents. Many capoeira players consider Curió to be the most dangerous mestre because of his unpredictable and creative fighting style. See also * Capoeira Angola Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality. Born of the melting pot of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians and Portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th century ... References Works cited * Capoeira mestres Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Brazil-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Leopoldina
Demerval Lopes de Lacerda (1933–2007), known as Mestre Leopoldina, was a Brazilian ''velha guarda'' (old guard) capoeira ''mestre''. He was known for his quick and unique style of playing capoeira, as well as for his mastery of the berimbau and for the songs that he composed. He represented the old capoeira carioca, ''malicia'' and the traditional ''malandragem'' of capoeira. Early life Demerval Lopes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1933. He grew up without his mother, often beaten and neglected.Mestre Leopoldina lalaue.com He left his home at a young age, sleeping at the train stations and selling sweets on street. It is often said that he was nicknamed after one of Rio's train stations, but he stated that his nickname was after a locomotive. As a teenager, he went to ''Serviço de Assistência ao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anibal Burlamaqui
Anníbal Burlamaqui (1898-1965), known as Mestre Zuma, was a Brazilian customs officer, poet, Boxer (boxing), boxer and a prominent advocate for the sport of capoeira during its prohibition. He was one of the main proponents of the fighting-oriented ''capoeira carioca'', without dance, music, and rituals. Burlamaqui's efforts were part of a broader movement by educated Brazilians to destigmatize capoeira and promote it as a national sport. Life Since the age of ten, Anibal had been practising Swedish gymnastics, Weightlifting, weight lifting and training on horizontal bars. He states that he learned Greco-Roman wrestling at eighteen, and later trained boxing. He was a true athlete and a very different character from the traditional Capoeira carioca, cariocan capoeira of that time. Gymnástica nacional (capoeiragem) In 1928, Anibal "Zuma" Burlamaqui published the first capoeira manual, ''Gymnástica nacional (capoeiragem), methodisada e regrada'', where he introduced boxing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Waldemar
Waldemar Rodrigues da Paixão (February 22, 1916 – 1990), known as Mestre Waldemar (Valdemar, Waldemar da Liberdade, Waldemar do Pero Vaz), was a Brazilian capoeira ''mestre'' and musician from the state of Bahia. He is considered one of the most artistic and skillful capoeira Angola players of his time. Waldemar lived in the Corta-Braço slum, a poor neighborhood in Salvador, later known as Liberdade. He held capoeira ''rodas'' in his backyard shed (''barracão'') every Sunday. He kept his rodas open to all capoeiristas, regardless of their style. Mestre Waldemar's roda became one of the most important meeting points for Bahian capoeiristas. Biography Waldemar Rodrigues da Paixão was born in 1916 on Ilha de Maré. He started learning capoeira in 1936 at the age of 20. His learned from teachers such as Canário Pardo, Peripiri, Talabi, Siri-de-Mangue, and Ricardo of Ilha de Maré. ''Barracão'' of Mestre Waldemar In the 1940s, Waldemar established a practice venue in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Sinhozinho
Agenor Moreira Sampaio ( Santos, Brazil, 1891–1962), most commonly known as Mestre Sinhozinho, was a ''mestre'' or master practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira. He was the main exponent of the fighting-oriented style known as ''capoeira carioca''. Biography Early life and training Some sources name his second surname as Ferreira, but the rest of his life is well documented. He was one of the eight children of Brazilian military officer and politician José Moreira, who descended from Francisco Manoel da Silva. An avid athlete, Agenor trained formally in boxing, savate, Greco-Roman wrestling and arm wrestling since his childhood, and also learned capoeira in the docks of Santos. When his family moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1908, he became a neighbor to fighter José Floriano "Zeca" Peixoto, son of politician Floriano Peixoto, who trained him further in capoeira. Sampaio might have also witnessed the famous vale tudo fight between capoeirista Francisco da Silva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Pastinha
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (commonly called Mestre Pastinha) (April 5, 1889, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – November 13, 1981) was a ''mestre'' (a master practitioner) of the Brazilian martial art Capoeira. Formative Years Pastinha was born to José Pastinha (born Pastiña), a poor Spanish immigrant who worked as a pedlar and Eugênia Maria de Carvalho Ferreira, a black Bahian homemaker. He was exposed to Capoeira at the age of 8 by an African named Benedito.http://www.sport.ifcs.ufrj.br/recorde/pdf/recordeV1N1_2008_1a.pdf The story goes that an older and stronger boy from Pastinha's neighborhood would often bully and beat him up. One day Benedito saw the aggression that Pastinha suffered, and then told him to stop by his house because he was going to teach him a few things. In his next encounter with that boy, Pastinha defeated him so quickly that the older boy became his admirer. From then on, Pastinha had a happy and modest childhood. In the mornings he would take art classes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Moraes
Pedro Moraes Trindade, commonly known as Mestre Moraes, (born February 9, 1950, in Ilha de Maré in Salvador, Brazil) is a master of capoeira. He lives in Salvador, Bahia, teaching at a public school and overseeing GCAP, which serves as a cultural outreach project, training both older visiting students and children who lack direction for channeling their energies. Meste Moraes was student of João Grande and the teacher of Cobra Mansa. Biography Moraes was born on the island of Maré in the Bay of All The Saints, one of the legendary locations celebrated in capoeira songs, and was raised in Salvador. His father was also a practitioner of capoeira Angola, the traditional style of Bahia. In Pastinha's academy At the age of eight, he started to train at the academy of Mestre Pastinha. By that time Pastinha was blind with and no longer taught classes, so academy was run by his students João Grande and João Pequeno. He states that he is truly the student of João Grande du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
João Grande
João Oliveira dos Santos (born 15 January 1933), better known as Mestre João Grande, is a Grão-Mestre (Grand Master) of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira angola who has contributed to the spread of this art throughout the world. He was a student of the "father of Angola", Mestre Pastinha, and has an academy in New York City. Early years Mestre João Grande was born in the village of Itagi in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia. As a child he worked alongside his family in the fields. At the age of 10 he saw "corta capim" for the first time. This is a movement performed by crouching down, extending one leg in front and swinging it around in a circle, hopping over it with the other leg. Fascinated, he asked what it was called and was told that it was "the Dance of the Nagos" — a dance of the African descendants in the city of Salvador. The Yoruba of Southwest Nigeria had a major cultural influence in Salvador, which was considered the Black Rome of Brazil. But t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capoeira
Capoeira () is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, music and spirituality. Born of the melting pot of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians and Portuguese influences at the beginning of the 16th century, capoeira is a constantly evolving art form. It is known for its acrobatic and complex maneuvers, often involving hands on the ground and inverted kicks. It emphasizes flowing movements rather than fixed stances; the ''ginga'', a rocking step, is usually the focal point of the technique. Although debated, the most widely accepted origin of the word ''capoeira'' comes from the Tupi words ''ka'a'' ("forest") ''paũ'' ("round"), referring to the areas of low vegetation in the Brazilian interior where fugitive slaves would hide. A practitioner of the art is called a capoeirista (). Though often said to be a martial art disguised as a dance, capoeira served not only as a form of self defence, but also as a way to maintain spirituality and cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobrinha Verde
Rafael Alves Franca (1912–1983), known as Cobrinha Verde (''Little Green Snake'') was capoeira mestre from mid-20th-century Brazil. He became one of the most feared and respected capoeiristas of his time. He is also considered one of the icons of the traditional Capoeira, capoeira Angola of his time. Biography Rafael was born in Santo Amaro, Bahia, Santo Amaro da Purificação and grew up playing capoeira on the streets. He claimed Besouro was his first mestre but also his cousin and that he nicknamed him "Cobrinha Verde" because of his agility and dexterity, especially with his legs. Besides Besouro, he also had the opportunity to learn from some of the most famous capoeiristas of that time, including Maitá, Licurí, Joité, Dendê, Gasolina, Siri de Mangue, Doze Homens, Espiridião, Juvêncio Grosso, Espinho Remoso, Neco, Canário Pardo, and Tonha. Alongside the rodas of Mestre Bimba, Mestre Pastinha, and Mestre Waldemar, this mestre's rodas was very influent in Brazil. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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