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Mestre Joao Grande

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Capoeira Style: Angola

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 o...

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Mestre Pastinha

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Vicente Joaquim Ferreira Pastinha better known as Mestre Pastinha was born the the 5th April 1889 in Salvador Bahia. A little known fact is that his father, José Señor Pastinha, was born here in Spain. He owned a small shop in the centre of Salvador. His mother, Maria Eugenia, was born in Santo Amaro da Purificação made a living from selling ...

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Mestre Cobrinha Verde

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Rafael Alves França, o Mestre Cobrinha Verde, viveu entre 1917 e 1983 e foi um dos mais temidos e respeitados capoeiristas de sua época. Nascido na cidade de Santo Amaro da Purificação, berço da capoeira baiana, afirmava ser um parente legítimo do lendário capoeirista Besouro Mangangá, mais precisamente seu primo. Foi com ele que aos quatro anos ...

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Mestre Waldemar

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Waldemar Rodrigues da Paixão (Mestre Waldemar, Waldemar da Liberdade or Waldemar do Pero Vaz) is born in 1916 in Ilha de Maré and began the practice of capoeira in 1936 at 20 years old. He was a student of Canário Pardo, Peripiri, Talabi, Siri-de-Mangue and Ricardo of Ilha de Maré: “I asked those men to teach me, so that I could become professiona...

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Pedro Trinidade Moraes

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Pedro Moraes Trindade, commonly known as Mestre Moraes, (born February 9, 1950 in Ilha de Maré in Salvador, Brazil) is a master of capoeira.[1] Moraes began his training in Capoeira de Angola at the age of eight. His father was also a Capoeirista, or practitioner of Capoeira Angola, the traditional style of Capoeira in Bahia, Brazil. At the t...

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Mestre Joao Pequeno

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Capoeira Style: Angola

João Pereira dos Santos, conhecido como Mestre João Pequeno foi um mestre de capoeira brasileiro. Filho de Maria Clemença de Jesus, ceramista e descendente de índigenas, e de Maximiliano Pereira dos Santos, cuja profissão era vaqueiro na Fazenda Vargem do Canto na Região de Queimadas. Aos 15 anos, fugiu da seca a pé, indo até Alagoinhas, seguin...

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Mestre Cobra Mansa

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Mestre Cobra Mansa (born Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha) commonly known as Cobrinha and Cobrinha Mansa, is a mestre or master of Capoeira Angola.[1] He is one of the founders and the guiding light of an organization known as FICA (in Portuguese, an acronym for Fundaçao Internacional de Capoeira de Angola) or ICAF (in English, this stands for the Interna...

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Mestre Bimba

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Capoeira Style: Regional

Manuel dos Reis Machado, commonly called Mestre Bimba was a Brazilian capoeira mestre. He founded the capoeira regional school, one of the art's two main branches. Machado was born in Salvador in the year 1899 but was not officially registered until 1900, resulting in some confusion surrounding his date of birth. Despite him being born in 1899, 1...

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Mestre Boca Rica

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Capoeira Style: Angola

Mestre Boca Rica (Manoel Silva) was born on 11/26/1936 in the city of Maragogipe-BA. He moved to Salvador-BA in the 1950s, the same period he started his practice in Capoeira Angola with Mestre Pastinha at the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola (CECA), located in Pelourinho n°19. Capoeira provided him with experiences such as traveling to more tha...

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Mestre Anastacio Marrom

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Capoeira Style: Angola

He was born in 1963 in Itabuna, Bahia (Brazil), where he had his first contact with Capoeira. In 1976, he moved to Rio de Janeiro where he continued his Capoeira training. In the early 1990s, he began learning and studying Capoeira Angola. This led him to establish contacts with Masters such as Mestre Nô and Mestre Angolinha, forming a lasting f...

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