Year of manufacture: 2003
Author: Nestor Capoeira
Genre: Sports
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1556434405
Format: DjVu
English language
Number of Pages: 225

A set of materials for acquaintance with one of the most fashionable among youth sports. Capoeira is simultaneously a dance, acrobatics and martial art, the main weapon in which are the feet. Originated among the Negroes of Angola and Brazil, the former Portuguese colonies, it is now stunningly gaining popularity throughout the world. In Israel, for example, young men and women gather in the evenings on the beaches and under hypnotic live music demonstrate head-spinning pirouettes, flips and somersaults in the Roda (circle of adepts) who would have honored any professional gymnast. The whole atmosphere of such meetings is permeated with friendliness and warmth, because the capoeira is not a real battle, it's O Jogo, a noble game of men, alien to and hostile to it.
Unfortunately, not everyone can enter the classroom for a good master. even literature on this subject is not so much. In this edition you will find a detailed description of the history of the origin and development of style, the description of various schools and directions, the technique of performing receptions, ligaments and combinations of solos and in pairs, a glossary and bibliography.
"Capoeira has been in America for twenty years, but only a few books have been written about her ... Nestor's book is interesting not only for capoeira practitioners, but also for musicians, anthropologists, all people who are interested in it, and it will help the new generation of capoeiristas find their way."

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