It looks like Eddie Gordo got his own game…
“Martial Arts: Capoeira is the most exciting and original fighting game ever created! Sport and RPG elements have been combined with traditional fighting game mechanics for the very first time, to offer unrivalled realism and challenging brutal gameplay. Train until you sweat blood to increase skills such as endurance, speed, leg and arm strength. Then when you think you’re ready, take part in underground street fights for cold, hard cash. Become one with your gamepad or Wiimote and strive to earn the right to call yourself the most powerful Capoeira fighter in the World!”
Game info – Thanks to Bordedeira for the link!
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!.
Capoeira Aruanda’s Melodia shares her thoughts on the Afro Dance Workshop held as part of the Roda De Rua Series in November 2009!
Turning up on time to an Afro dance work shop should be high on any list of priorities; I learnt this the hard way last Sunday as I ambled into Daceyville PCYC, thinking that a 10 minute late stamp should be ok to just slip into the workshop and ‘do whatever’.
Wrong.
Well so far, so good this round of Roda De Rua, we have covered samba, the beats behind samba and funk, and now this week we are tackling another style of dance, Maculelê.
Maculelê is a Brazilian dance form with African roots, it is played with each dancer holding a pair of sticks called grimas, which are traditionally made from the biriba wood. The dancers use the sticks to hit each against one another’s grimas, as well as their own, in tune with the atabaque (Drum). The more daring and experienced dancers perform the dance with machetes rather than sticks, often showing off sparks of light as the knives cross paths, adding to the atmosphere of the dance.
Capoerista’s woke up to a beautiful sunny day in Sydney on Sunday for a little bit of Samba and an awesome day for Roda De Rua at Coogee Beach in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs!
Kicking off the day we headed down to the PCYC at Daceyville (Kingsford) for some music practice, a little bit of play, followed by a very challenging Samba class. The amazing Cristina Ramon took on the challenge that was teaching us a samba routine, and if I thought I was un-coordinated before the class, I KNOW I am definitely un-co now hehe… The class was great fun, and it was fun to see everyone give it a go, trying to shake their booties – trying being the operative word for some of us! Our next challenge, possibly our homework, is to remember the little routine we learnt, a challenge for any worthy capoeirista, but with a few more lessons from the lovely Cristina I think we might just get it down.
