Back in 2004 I met Ido Portal out in the Basque country at a massive Capoeira event called CapoCapu. Two years later, Ido sent his student Grito on a mission to do a knowledge exchange to see how I was running my notforprofit project Capoeira Communitites. Here are my notes from that intensvie training... Ariel Training First of all focus on the most basic principles: Relax like you are just picking up your groceries. Efficient warm-up consists of getting the fluid betwewn j

Advanced When training on your own I think it is worthwhile training a structured selection of variations; with the point of keeping your vocabulary as large as possible. This is only relevant for movements that you are already executing cleanly in the roda. As an example of my own - here is a vocabulary of movements that I need to refresh frequently to keep the base of vocabulary increasing in speed and fluency. Of course the list is of names that I call things - so you wil

Sideways flip - Style= Tucked body shape on the spot Forwards - Style= Open body shape/ No handed walkover Forwards - Style= Open body shape/ No handed walkover Sideways flip - Style= Open body shape / Au de Costas Forwards TWIST flip - Style= Open body shape with vertical rotation/twist