Oi quando eu chego nesta roda
Sinto o corpo arrepiar
Pode estar tocando Angola
Ou então Regional
Já trocou a minha roupa
Estou pronto pra jogar
Capoeira é Capoeira
Ai meu Deus
Que vontade que dá
Ai meu Deus
Que vontade que dá
Ai ai ai
Que vontade que dá
Ai meu Deus
Que vontade que dá
Ai ai ai
Que vontade que dá
When I arrive at this roda
I feel my body shiver
May be playing Angola
Or Regional
I already changed my clothes
I’m ready to play
Capoeira is Capoeira
Oh my God
What a will
Oh my God
What a will
Ai ai ai
What a will
Oh my God
What a will
Ai ai ai
What a will
Did you know?
Angola
- Angola is the West-Central African nation that serves as the primary ancestral and cultural birthplace of the rhythms, movements, and spiritual roots of capoeira.
- During the transatlantic slave trade, millions of people were forcibly taken from this region to Brazil, bringing with them rich martial traditions like the combat dance N'golo.
- The country's deep historical connection is permanently embedded in the art through Capoeira Angola, the traditional style dedicated to preserving these original roots.
- The name is universally celebrated in the roda through countless traditional songs that invoke Angola as a sacred land of ancestors, memory, and profound longing.
- The primary instrument of the art, the berimbau, is directly tied to Angolan musical heritage, evolving from traditional bow instruments like the mbulumbumba.
- Today, capoeiristas view the nation as a ultimate cultural touchstone, representing the unbreakable bond between African resistance and Brazilian identity.
Capoeira Regional
- Capoeira Regional is a modern, fast-paced, and highly combative style of the art created in the 1930s by the legendary Mestre Bimba in Salvador, Bahia.
- The style was designed to rescue capoeira from social marginalization by transforming it into a highly structured, efficient, and respected martial art.
- Mestre Bimba revolutionized the discipline by integrating elements of batuque and gymnastics, creating a faster game played higher off the ground with explosive kicks.
- It introduced systematic training innovations, including the world's first official capoeira academy, standardized combat sequences, and a graduation system using colored scarves.
- The musical structure is traditionally minimalist compared to older styles, using only one berimbau and two pandeiros to drive a clean, aggressive, and rapid rhythm.
- Today, it stands as a monumental milestone that helped legalize the art nationwide, establishing a rigorous training philosophy followed by capoeiristas worldwide.