About Capoeira

About Capoeira

Capoeira is a game and a dance that was created by slaves in Brazil in the 16th century. It has been a field of study in various universities around the world. It is a unique sport that is a mix of game playing and competitive fighting. The principle aspect of Capoeira is to play a game where the most important thing is not wining but cooperating, because the game doesn’t have a winner or a loser. It is a spectacle for the eyes of the observer. This is a sport where the participant can be 6 to 60 years and play depends only on the creativity of each person.

Benefits of Capoeira

Physical Benefits

1. Stretching and strengthening all the muscles of the body

2. A great cardiovascular workout

3. Developing speed, strength, and motor skills

Psychological Benefits

Through Capoeira training participants will help control:

1. Anxiety

2. Shyness

3. Aggressiveness

These psychological benefits are developed through instilling cooperation, respect, discipline, and tolerance. Capoeira is the development of mature emotions through movement. Capoeira develops a body language where creativity and expression are the principle tools. An individual can use expression, communication, and creativity to better prepare for the challenges of a competitive society.

Capoeira for Kids: Developing Potential

During childhood and adolescence a child needs experiences that help structure their relationship with themselves, others, and the world. This relationship is interconnected with the image that they make of themselves.

How much better is the person that moves better, understands their feelings, and communicates through expression and creativity? Capoeria teaches lifestyles of cooperation, socialization, tolerance, and helping one another. The sport of Capoeira is training, exercise, stretching, relaxation, and philosophy. It gives physical and psychological support, developing all the potential contained in its participants, making them more prepared for life.

The entire process helps the child develop their critical thinking, their limits, and establish as a priority their liberty of expression, thus conquering and multiplying in value. Movements that are quick, slow, controlled, loose, confined, acrobatic, light and elegant seem more like a dance than a fight, but it is also a sport and a game. A sport and a game where the most important thing isn’t to win, but to cooperate! Body language captivates the spectator through movements and thus the participants begin to understand the relationship with themselves, others, and the world.