Category Archives: Capo Instructors

Adding Value

How can we add more value to our classes to make our students have a better experience *Have pads, dummies and bags to use *Have mats for flipping and Capoeira tricks *Have instruments available to be used *Work on social media to bring the community together *Post the classes or techniques online so the students […]

Suggestions for class Dec 1-14th

Beginners: Moves: Focus on Bencao, bencao pulada, Chapa and chapa pulada(make sure the form is good) Dodges: Cocorinha and macaco Music: Banguela Extra: Intermediate: Moves: Rasteira, Rasteira de Mao, Saida de Vingativa with tesoura de frente, Saida de Vingativa with banda de costas, Dodges:Au Santo amaro de chao, Queda de quatro from rasteira Music: berimbau: […]

Batizado November 2014!

The batizado is designed to celebrate the students and their effort in learning this incredible art of Capoeira. Some people will be rewarded with a cord or their next cord but this should be a consequence of their hard work in class. The main reason for the batizado is: *to get together to see and […]

Suggestion for Classes 8/4 thru 8/15

Beg. Moves: work on all the kicks for green cord the whole week Dodges: show all the dodges for green cord (Cocorinha, Negativa, Resistencia, guarda alta, au, esquiva lateral and cadeira) Music: Pandeiro: Samba de roda Extra: Do something different that is hard even for you to do. It can be a move or a […]

Volta ao Mundo Handbook

About Capoeira (kah-po-way-tta)   Capoeira took its shape in the bubbling cauldron of Brazil. Its roots trace from the African peoples enslaved there dating from the early 1500Æs. Its own evolution is testimony to the creative adaptability and will to survive of its people and culture. Still truly evolving, Capoeira has been spreading worldwide in […]

What Capoeira is About

Volta ao Mundo is a group of academies of Capoeira, a Brazilian Martial Art and Art form. Weáare a group of people dedicated to teach and instruct students and friends this art form created byáslaves in the 1500Æs in Brazil. We use the philosophy, movements, music and everything else related toácapoeira like maculele, puxada de […]