♫ Nem tudo que reluz é ouro ♫

Nem tudo que reluz é ouro
Nem tudo que balança cai
Nem tudo que reluz é ouro
Nem tudo que balança cai

Cai cai cai cai
Capoeira balança mas não cai
Cai cai cai cai
Batuqueiro balança mas não cai
Cai cai cai cai

Foi você quem me disse
que filho de Bimba não cai
Foi você quem me disse
que filho de Bimba não cai

Cai cai cai cai
Capoeira balança mas não cai
Cai cai cai cai
Batuqueiro balança mas não cai
Cai cai cai cai

Not everything that shines is gold
Not everything that stumbles falls
Not everything that shines is gold
Not everything that stumbles falls

fall fall fall fall
Capoeirista stumbles but does not fall
fall fall fall fall
Batuqueiro stumbles but does not fall
fall fall fall fall

It was you who told me
that Bimba’s son does not fall
It was you who told me
that Bimba’s son does not fall

fall fall fall fall
Capoeirista stumbles but does not fall
fall fall fall fall
Batuqueiro stumbles but does not fall
fall fall fall fall

Did you know?

Mestre Bimba (Manuel dos Reis Machado) was the legendary founder of Capoeira Regional, a faster and more combative style of the art.

Mestre Bimba (1899–1974) revolutionized the discipline by creating Capoeira Regional, modernizing the traditional Afro-Brazilian art.
He integrated elements of Batuque and gymnastics to make capoeira a highly effective and structured martial art.
In 1932, he founded the world's first official capoeira academy in Salvador, Bahia, establishing a rigorous training method.
He successfully convinced President Getúlio Vargas to lift the legal ban on capoeira, declaring it Brazil's national sport.
He introduced systematic innovations like white uniforms, a formal graduation system using colored scarves, and standardized combat sequences.
Disillusioned by a lack of government support in Bahia, he moved to Goiânia, where he tragically died in poverty a year later.