CAPOEIRA VIDEOS
Capoeira videos of proffesional level players only, filmed in Brazil and the UK. When I get the opportunity to go, I scour Brazil for the finest capoeiristas I can lay my camera on. Once back home I get down to the editing samplers and showreels below. Often the people I film live in poor dangerous shanty towns (favelas) with little or no income, other times they live in comfort teaching capoeira in the west. This is your chance to see the cream of capoeira from the comfort of your PC, enjoy! Click on the pics to watch the clips or right click to save to your hard disc.
Narcelio, CDO. 2006 Capoeira Showreel.
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Watch Narcelios full length capoeira showreel and see exactly what it means to be a capoeirista at this level. His unmatched agility, skill, speed and bravery are repute throughout the world of capoeira. He's the reason I travelled for two days crammed into flatbad trucks across sand roads swamped with torrential rains and remote villages skirting the Brazilian desert to end up in a shanty town on the outskirts of Fortaleza. I then spent 3 days bussing around his favourite training haunts, places that sent Mestre Espirro wild with fury when he realised the danger I had apparently been in. It was an exhausting trip but this incredible capoeira showreel makes it all worthwhile. Narcelio will blow your mind! Temporarily only available on Youtube.
Music from Mestre Acordeon - the CD Vamos Pedir o Axe and the KRAFTSMEN. 2:55 secs 45,124 KB
Mestre Espirro Mirim, CDO. 2006 Showreel.
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Mestre Espirro Mirim in his very own capoeira showreel. This was shot around London in all our favourite training haunts, Mestre Poncianinho's recent baptizado and some seceret locations too. I even got the Mestre into a bit of action choreography. He's elated with the result and so should you be. Never before has there been a showreel of a Mestre of this level available freely for download. 2:51 secs 29,280 KB
Banzay, Cordao de Ouro, Ceara
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I met Banzay at Capoeirando 2004 in Ilheus. Another Cordao de Ouro student from Ceara, he is an adept of the intricate acrobatics of Mestre Suassunnas Miudinho game. Notice that momentum is garnered through circular movements (as opposed to linear like in gymnastics) allowing these aerial and ground acrobatics to fit within the physical constraints of a capoeira roda. Check out this sampler, you'll see some very interesting moves here! 1:26 secs 14,844 KB
Professor Anum, Uniao Capoeira, Holland
I saw Professor Anum busting some high level acrobatics (on concrete floor of course) in the rodas at Mestre Suassunnas Capoeirando 2004 and he agreed to do some moves for the camera on the beach. This was the very first filming done specifically with a capoeira video website in mind.. so this is where it all began! He also introduced me to Banzay, above. Check out Anum's capoeira combos, he makes it all look easy! 0:42 secs 7,985 KB
Acrobacias: Students of Mestre Espirro. CDO, Ceara
Some high-end acrobatic capoeira action from the end of great roda in the Favela. These capoeira students are doing it all on bare concrete floor, no shoes. 0:33 secs 5,745 KB
Narcelio, Cordao De Ouro, Ceara
Its fair to say that filming and meeting Narcelio was one of the main reasons that I went to Fortaleza. Mestre Ponciano kept telling me that if I loved acrobatics so much then I should meet the "video-game" capoeirista himself. A long term student of Mestre Espirro Mirim, his skill is repute throughout the Capoeira world. Watch this tiny taster clip - big showreel coming soon. 1:04 secs 11,064 KB
Queque, Capoeira Engenho da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
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I chanced across Queque on my search for a capoeirista who could do a double back somersault (to a settle a long standing argument with a gymnast). When I met him he was sweating around in the hot sun serving fat tourists fat soft drinks and trying not to get sacked while talking to me. In the minutes that followed Queque demonstrated among other things his folha-seca parafuso and I realized I had stumbled across a phenonomal acrobat. This is a large file (14 MB but well worth the wait, download it now and save it to your hard disk!) A very acrobatic capoeira video clip! Music:- Mestre Acordeon, Vamos Pedir o Axe plus live backing from the beach. 33,043 KB, 2:56 secs
Keep checking back! More capoeira videos coming ALL the time.
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