Student Profile | Sonia “Assustada” de Andrade
A love for music and an uncanny ability to fall "up" stairs comes up this months featured student Sonia "Assustada" de Andrade from the Winchester Hills class. Sonia has been involved with CDC for a long time and will be a regular feature at the Winchester Hills Class in 2012 - even if she doesn't know it yet... If you see her in class then please give her a hand with her S-Dobrado as she wants to nail this move in the next couple of months!
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CDC Batizado 2011
Its been a long time coming but the first details around Casa da Capoeira's 2011 Batizado are out! Mestre Bogado and Mestre Gigante will once again grace us with their presence for what promises to be the highlight of the CDC calendar in 2011. After a number of days of workshops, the event will culminate in the grading to take place on Sunday 4 December 2011!
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The Cobra Mansa Workshops | Review
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. 10 000 pictures and a million words couldn’t go a portion of the way towards telling you what you can learn from a Capoeira Mestre when you live with him on a farm for a weekend. A couple of guys from CDC Johannesburg recently headed down for a weekend of self discovery and good old capoeira.
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Public Roda in JHB this Weekend!
Just a quick reminder about the Public Roda happening this weekend in Norwood! Please come join us and add your Axe to what promises to be an awesome roda. Also, don't forget about the Cobra Mansa Workshops happening this weekend in Moz and the next weekend in Howick, KZN. Get in touch with your instructors if you wanna join us!
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The legendary Mestre Cobra Mansa to host Capoeira Workshops in South Africa
A true force in the Capoeira world and a wealth of knowledge and traditional Capoeira experience is currently on our continent and will soon be coming to our country!! Mestre Cobra Mansa can trace his lineage in Capoeira back to his Mestre Moraes who was one of Mestre Pastinha's students. As you can imagine, this is going to be a brilliant series of workshops!
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Capoeira e luta e danca : Mestre Paulo sets the records straight
Mestre Paulo was recently interviewed by The Dance Directory around the essence of Capoeira. As capoeiristas, we are constantly given flack about capoeira being a dance and not a martial art and this provided the perfect platform for one of Casa da Capoeira's Mestres to educate the general public
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CDC Batizado 2011
YES, it is that time you have been waiting for: The 2011 CDC Grading is coming in November 2011! Before the grading you will have to pull up your sleeves and show the CDC team that you have worked hard at your Capoeira skills since the last grading or since you joined capoeira... Yes, a pre-grading! Here you have a chance to stun everyone with your skills and show your true Capoeirista colors! Pre-Grading will take place on saturday 30 July at the UJ Class. More details can be found in the full post...
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It’s a Girl!
Casa da Capoeira would like to extend our sincerest welcome to a brand new Capoeira in our ranks: Grant “Bate Palmas” Codron is officially a dad! We were all surprised to hear the news that that the CDC stalwart had a baby on the way during his last visit, but late last night we got news that his beautiful baby girl had jinga’d her way into the world.
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Student Profile | Norio De Sousa | Pretoria
"Your movement, it's good, but your kick... it sucks" Those were Contra-Mestre Salles' words to Norio De Sousa who has been a part of the CDC family for just 5 months but he has certainly been hitting it hard! His kicks may suck right now but with the dedication and enthusiasm Norio has shown he will be throwing Folha Seca's in no-time. If you want to find out exactly what his favourite sayings and quotes are, best you ask him in person! Find out more about Norio on our latest student profile.
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