UR Capoeira

Hi All
Today I'll be in the area all day - Our part finishes at 4:30 and we could go outside upstairs and make an open roda starting at 5pm So come early if you can.

Tonight capoeira training arrive 6:30 for music & movement practice 7pm
URCapoeira weekly class - Tonight Capoeira Angola passing tessora, chamada use & the foot of the berimbau practice

See you there
£10 cash or transfer

Happy new year to all the people in UR Capoeira, Luanda Pau Afro Cuban Dances and those that are supporters from everywhere that help us in our desire to transplant these fantastic cultural pastimes. May '23 - 2024 passing be a great one for you all.

Urban Ritual, London would like to thank all that could come and start the year with some great games and energy. Great to see a few of my old students too especially George Pintado. Much looking forward to the various events and meeting coming up this year.

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English below

Isso é ouro https://youtu.be/R-5oxSFzwPc - eu me lembro de volta em 2001/2 talvez antes o Mestre Marrom me deu uma cópia disso e disse "Simon é isso que você estava procurando" ele estava certo. Hoje em dia está disponível para todos e contém informações sobre como as pessoas nas décadas de 40/50 cantavam e tocavam berimbau. Se parece rápido é porque você não está acostumado a jogar nessa velocidade e ou sua técnica tem tensão e, portanto, não pode trabalhar nessa velocidade. Relaxamento e técnica correta. Também podemos ouvir um grande coro de homens cantando muito bem juntos. Eu também sugeriria que isso não seja repetido e uma gravação verdadeira do que eles fizeram naquela época. Salve a festa do Bonfin, Salve a festa na Ribeira...

This is gold - I remember back in about 2001/2 maybe earlier Mestre Marrom gave me a copy of this and said "Simon this is what you've been looking for" he was right. Nowadays it's available to everyone and it holds the information about how the people back in the 40's/50's sung & played berimbau. If it seems fast it's because your're not used to playing at that speed and or your technique has tension and therefore can't work at that speed. Relaxation and correct technique. Also we can hear a great chorus of men singing really well together. I woould also suggest that this is not rehursed and a true recording of what they did back then. Salve a festa do Bonfin, Salve a festa na Ribeira...
https://youtu.be/R-5oxSFzwPc

interesting question - glad I'm not the only one asking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMwZ4oMd_b4

Berimbaus Oitavas Abaixo - Musicalização na Capoeira Salve, Salve!🎼Em busca do entendimento e procurando compreender as mudanças históricas e as possibilidades de afinações e timbres, compartilho com todxs que...

Don't miss an opportunity

UR Capoeira training Sunday afternoon 2pm start until the sun gets higher.

Great little training today with sun but still a little chilly with that breeze! Don't wait till the summer because it will come and go - Vamos ate dar Pra criar nossa roda no park

Training outdoors all year - for many years i taught outdoors in the summer - now I keep it outdoors in the winter too. Best thing I've done. Come check the class for health, fitness, capoeira Angola and dance coordination- soon the days start to get longer again.

Those that come all have the same thoughts - its cold, a little bit more difficult to arrive - but when you do you triple rewards.

Big thank you to the Capoeira community for bringing such positive energy to the rodas and training this weekend past. Great to meet new people, old friends and keen students from other groups. Catching up with SJ has been very important to me also. Please share your reflections and add your name to our photos. Axé a Todas - Obrigado Obrigado pela capoeira eu posso jogar
Thanks to Marie for taking all the photos

UR Capoeira class times
Monday/Wednesday 6pm
Saturday 1pm
Sunday 1pm

All classes feature theme based practice and will include music and game play. Please arrive before start time - which is 10 past the hour.

This weeks theme CHAMADAS

£10 a class
£40 a month
Any level welcome
Friday we might visit a roda or do one ourselves.

Come and join the gang and develop your vision and ability

We are all vulnerable

Playing capoeira shows us vulnerability.

Although it is possible to avoid this by avoiding engagement. If you don’t really enter the game then it’s possible to avoid being caught out. Moving in a rushed, panic-like, individual way avoids clear engagement and does appear to leave you less vulnerable. Is that playing? The bataria (musicians/singers) and your partner set the pace and a good game will be saturated by these two influences as soon as you enter the circle.

I try to teach my students about engagement. Looking and seeing. Feeling and developing a deeper relationship with the other player — during the game! In the beginning, this is difficult for most people — but that is the learning challenge — engagement/confrontation. The fight(see below) element can’t be dismissed but with good use of rituals, music, song and understanding we can fight the game win and lose — or appear too. When we first arrive to learn Capoeira invariably it’s a movement challenge and quite enough. It’s why practice alone is so important — we won’t have to consider anything when we play if we have practised the movements we know or some of them. Playing is about reactions, choices, deception and two peoples energy being guided by the roda. We prepare for this in our daily practice, in class, meeting and seeing different masters and practitioners. It doesn’t exist one way, one correct method, one dominant style and if it did something would die and my ideology wouldn’t exist. UR Capoeira

When I play I know that I don’t always do what I want to, I can’t tell where I will go, what I will do and for this, I avoid all attempts to do something I want — there is no plan. Entering the game I suggest to my students that they need to forget everything, ask for support from the powers that be, engage with the music and watch, see and react purposefully. If your new to capoeira and starting to get a grip on a few things then bring it to the roda, challenge your learning phase. Avoid going around in circles with your friends never really doing anything. Quality over quantity applies here. A good game grasps the attention of even those not watching! A boring game leads to the loss of attention of those watching.

The fight — I say fight but we aren’t trying to actually hit or hurt the other. We are trying to show that we could have applied a blow or trip with sufficient applicable power to be effective.

Mestre Marrom bringing Capoeira to the UK some stay and some go!

Keep positive

Tuesday & Thursday Capoeira class on zoom
see here https://youtu.be/bLIY8o8NVic
Message me to join us
Happy new year to all

Online Classes edited Capoeira Angola zoom class

Get this down and improve you ability to play capoeira on the floor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVPlCVnfczs

Some basic floor moves Capoeira Angola - online class sample Moving on the floor in Capoeira Angola needs to be comfortable and well implemented. Position, movement transitions and malícia are part of the game and not ...

During some years Mestre Marcelo frequented, promoted and helped Capoeira Angola grow in UK especially London. Here you see him playing me in Bricklane in one of the many rodas around in our summer time. I can say that although I never tried to get his style he had a huge influence on me and helped me with the capoeira orientation of which I don't forget.

I wish you a happy birthday and many more to come.

Axe

How nature can develop our mindset
https://urcapoeira.medium.com/in-the-mid-80s-i-lived-in-a-place-called-low-turney-shield-in-the-west-allen-valley-69a024e1b2e0

Moving into the trees for a month LOL what a great training for capoeira warm up

Good game - check it out let me know what you think

Urban Ritual Capoeira @ Flipside Filmed by Guy Roberts Capoeira represented by Regional, Angola & East London mix

Salvador - Pelorinho

Capoeira seems to have influenced a whole load of people to explore further - MOVEMENT - and the move like a human idea's which I find so good compared with a lot of new methods that I'm seeing. Capoeira does though still tick all the boxes and has a few extras that the movement revolution doesn't have as yet. Capoeira combines three main elements - like Cuban Rumba - movement, song and music and using these three together for me then entered into the spiritual.

Some people influenced by Capoeira include Ido Portal and Simon Thakur and the ANCESTRAL MOVEMENT

So come and check out classes that continue in Haggerston Park
Tue & Thu 6pm
Sun 10 am
07779031273 for full info

Great to have enthusiasts training in the rain Haggerston Park - lets practice and prepare for the roda.