Roda De Rua – Borracha’s Acrobatics Workshop

Contra Mestre Borracha

Acrobatics or ‘floreios’ have always been a part ofthe game of Capoeira, even in the traditional game of  Capoeira Angola. However, with the birth of  Capoeira Regional in the 1930s, fast, dynamic acrobatic movements such as the somersault  ‘mortal’ were introduced and became an integral part of this new style. Practitioners of Capoeira Regional are constantly challenging themselves and others with new acrobatic tricks, movements and combinations – Capoeira Aruanda Acro!.

Contra Mestre Borracha was born in the state of Acre, in the Amazon region of Brazil and is a founder of Grupo Capoeira Aruanda. In the Capoeira world, the name Borracha is synonymous (pardon the pun, but Borracha is Portuguese for rubber) with acrobatics, as he has been pushing the boundaries of Capoeira acrobatics since he was a small child.

He began his Capoeira journey in 1989 and has since travelled the world sharing his knowledge with students, performing in cultural exhibits and developing his own Capoeira Academy in Sydney, Australia.

Borracha closes off Series 4 with an acrobatics workshop in Daceyville, where he will be showing us the fundamentals of acrobatics for capoeira and giving more advanced and bendy students tips on how to further improve handstands, backflips, macaco’s, sequences and the like.

It’s sure to be a very explosive and fun class and is the final workshop for this season of Roda De Rua, so come along and take advantage of the mats and squishy martial arts floor – all the better for falling on!