Capoeira
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art developed initially by African slaves in Brazil, starting in the colonial period. It is marked by deft, tricky movements often played on the ground or completely inverted. It also has a strong acrobatic component in some versions and is always played with music.
Recently, the are has been popularized by the addition of Capoeira performed in various computer games and movies, and capoeira music has featured in modern pop music.
Capoeira doesn’t focus on destroying the person you play against rather on demonstrating more skill ( or cunning ). Cappoeristas often prefer to show the movement without completing it, enforcing their superiority in the roda. If your opponent cannot dodge your slowest attack, there is no reason to use your fastest. Each attack that comes in gives you a chance to practice an evasive technique.
Professor Guga
Guga was born on July 22 1969, in the city of Ilheus in the state of Bahia, in north eastern Brazil. At the age of 7 he moved to the capitol of Bahia, Salvador, where Capoeira was born. He began training the art of Capoeira at the age of 13, in the Sao Paulo Middle School.
In 1990 Guga advanced to the position of monitor in the academy of Capoeira and began to teach in the the small fishing village of Caraiva doing community work for 7 years , also teaching children who did not have access to school.
In February 2003 he advanced to the position of Graduated Instructor after teaching more than 4 years on Maui, Hawaii, with the capacity of determining the advancement of graduation of students of Capoeira within his own school.
