Benefits of Training Capoeira

Capoeira is a very complex and dymanic artform. When it is seen publicly, only a few of its many elements are exposed: the dance-fight and the tricks. Training capoeira has much more to offer than physical benefits, however. Become a part of something amazing, try capoeira today!

Here is a list of how training capoeira could benefit you.

Improve your total well-being.

Capoeira can help relieve stress and give you a chance to escape and recharge. High stress jobs are bad for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Capoeira is good for your wellness because it is a sport heavily integrated with culture, music, and community.

Capoeira can help you develop self-esteem and self-confidence. If you try capoeira, you are guaranteed to learn new things that you never thought you could do before.

Capoeira will give you a chance to express yourself freely. Capoeira will exercise your ability to think creativity and strategically, and give you that outlet for self-expression.

Get a great workout (no matter how fit or unfit you are) and have fun getting it.

Just need a way to sweat? Capoeira just might be the most fun you will have getting a good sweat.

Trying to lose weight? Nothing beats good exercise and healthy diet. Two guys who started back in 2003 lost about 25 pounds a piece. All they did was start capoeira. Today, both of them have kept the weight off.

Trying to bulk up? While those two guys who lost 25 pounds from capoeira, another went from a 150 pound bean pole to a healthier 180 pounds—100% capoeira. He also kept this weight on.

Looking for a comprehensive workout? Capoeira is a comprehensive workout. It develops flexibility, strength, endurance, speed, and power all at once, AND it is a lot of fun.

Learn about this and other exciting aspects of Brazilian culture.

You will learn how to play the traditional instruments and how to keep a beat. Each capoeirista has the opportunity to play the berimbau, the atabaque, agogo, and pandeiro. You will learn the special rhythms for each one.

You learn lyrics to songs in Portuguese, learning Portuguese at the same time. First you will learn simple choruses in the call-and-response music of capoeira. Then you will move on to learn more complicated songs. Meanwhile, your competence in Portuguese vocabulary and grammar will improve.

Capoeira is integrated with the richness of Brazil's history and folklore. You will learn a lot about some incredible parts of Brazilian culture. Capoeira comes from colonial Brazil, which had a very dynamic (part ugly, part beautiful) history. Rooted in its traditions, you will learn a lot about the history of Brazil.

Learning capoeira also means setting yourself up to learn a lot of other traditional Brazilian dances; samba, maculelê, and puxada de rede to name a few. Capoeira groups frequently prepare events. For those who love dancing, this is an opportunity to develop your dance knowledge and learn some cultural Afro-Brazilian dances.

Meet new people, make lasting friendships, and become part of a larger community.

At its core, capoeira is about community. Joining a group means gaining access to a very diverse group of friends. Any good capoeira group hangs out regularly together: BBQs, movie-watching, training, working on social projects, and more.

Capoeira is open to everyone. So you are sure to meet interesting people and develop a diverse set of friends. Capoeira with us is inexpensive, as it should be having derived from an impoverished people. Furthermore, it is practiced by the old and the young, by men and women. It has plenty to offer those who are in shape and those who are not.

Capoeira events take place across the US and throughout the world year round, offering capoeiristas opportunities to travel to all kinds of places: familiar, domestic, and exotic. And the best part: when you travel, you are guaranteed to be treated well since you're part of the same community!

Practice a dance, a martial art, and acrobatics at the same time.

Ever wanted to do martial arts but found it too rigid and repetitive? Capoeira is the most fluid, dynamic, exciting, fun, and rich martial art there is. You will learn kicks along with how to move fluidly. You will learn how to "fight with a smile".

Are you a dancer looking for something different? Capoeira combines dance with martial arts and acrobatics. It is truly a unique movement form. Take all of the grace of a dance, add the power of martial arts, throw in some acrobatics ... and you have one complete movement form.

Tricks? Of course tricks! A lot of the tricks seen in breakdancing were possibly inspired by capoeira with the arrival of Mestre Jelon in the 1970s. This is really a topic of debate with no good non-anecdotal evidence supporting either theory, but similarities are undeniable.

Capoeira is a great way to learn some basics of self-defense, principally physical and mental prepardeness. In addition to learning basic concepts of defense and attack, capoeira will give you confidence to face your fears and obstacles head-on.