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Waldenkolk Oliveira, known as mestre Preguiça, was born in Sítio do Mato in Bahia, Brazil. It was June of 1947. His mother died when he was only seven years old, and he was left alone to face the world about which he knew so little. Three years later he was in Salvador, living on the streets, sleeping under bridges along with other street kids. In the constant search for a direction that he could follow in life, he would spend time in the poor neighborhoods of the Bahian capital, like Calçadas and Ribeira. That was where he met Gilson Capoeira of the Periperí neighborhood in 1959, who taught him his first Capoeira moves and brought him to Mestre Bimba’s academy. The powerful mestre then taught him the rules of discipline and respect that Waldenkolk longed for. |
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Grupo Muzenza has grown, especially in poor schools and communities. We're working to support the true mestres. We've also grown a lot outside Brazil, aiming to integrate capoeira into schools in Portugual, Spain, and Israel. The group continues its work with juvenile delinquents and drug addicts, in which we try to educate them through capoeira. We have already seen great results! |
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Mestre Squisito was born in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais on March 11, 1953. His first contact with capoeira occurred around 1968 in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, where he met a capoeirista at school. He really established himself in capoeira in Brasília in 1974, in the Academia Tabosa de Capoeira, the most famous academy of the time. |
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What were the main discharacterizations suffered by capoeira regional with the passage of time? Should the capoeira practiced today be called "regional"? The well-known phenomenon of "becoming a mestre overnight" has been one of the main problems of contemporary capoeira - what motivated this "rush" on the part of many capoeiristas? In your opinion, what criteria should be taken into account for someone who wants to choose a capoeira group to train in? |
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I'm extremely proud of being a student of Mestre Bimba. Among all the capoeira players in the world, there's no one who doesn't know who Mestre Bimba was. This is fundamental. That is, having been a student, having lived with the person who everyone admires because he is respected, not because he is fashionable. Those who knew him were marked by his personality, and respect him until this day. |
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