30 capoeira phrases to know the richness of this game

Capoeira is for everyone but not everyone is for capoeira.

Mestre Bimba

Capoeira is much more than a fight, capoeira is rhythm, it is music, it is trickery, it is poetry, it is a game, it is religion.

Master Pastinha

What I always like to remember is that capoeira appeared in Brazil as a fight against slavery. In the songs that remained until today you can see this. Whoever wants to understand, it’s all there in these verses what we kept from those times.

Master Pastinha

Capoeirista is not one who knows how to move the body, but one who lets himself be moved by the soul.

Master Pastinha

Capoeira is an ancestral legacy, a symbol of struggle and resistance.

No one can with the sound of our berimbaus and drums.

When he plays the berimbau, the heart of capoeira sways.

Leonardo Severgnini

Capoeira is complete, because it is necessary to sing, play, dance, fight, study the historical context, teach and smile with humility.

Ru Aiso

Capoeira is not learned overnight, it takes a lot of patience and dedication, and the fruits will come.

Master Angoleiro – Jackson Farias – Bidu

Capoeira is tactical defense, ginga in the body and trickery!

Unicar giraffe

Our movements are not in a hurry to arrive, but when they arrive, it is in a harmonious way.

Tiete Anacleto Mezetti

In the body language of capoeira, each subject is pronounced in a particular way.

No harm can reach you in the capoeira circle, unless you practice it yourself.

Master Garisto

In capoeira, an example is worth more than a thousand words.

Master Garisto

Capoeira is a cry of rejection of racist oppression.

In capoeira, when you scold, do it with a calm and polite voice, as you would like to be scolded when you make a mistake.

Master Garisto

There is no way to practice capoeira, there are several manifestations.

Capoeira is everything the mouth eats.

Master Pastinha

Behind a capoeira move there is a lot of knowledge.

The sound of the berimbau calms my mind.

If you play a light game, jump back and forth. Don’t think you’re so good capoeira. That capoeira is not so vulgar.

Master Fanho

There is nothing that a good capoeira roda cannot cure.

The friends I had left, the woman I loved left me, because now I only have capoeira, which has never abandoned me.

Master Barrao

What is berimbau? The gourd, wire and a stick.

The sound of clapping moves the ginga of capoeira.

Capoeira is a dialogue of bodies, I win when my partner has no more answers to my questions.

Master Moraes

In capoeira, the past becomes present and it is proven in the future that: many participate, few feel in their soul and some are chosen to pass on the learning.

Geisa Bahia Ginga

In the wheel of life, be a good capoeira. Accept the tricks, know how to get up.

Edu Madma

Anyone who doesn’t know the Paranauês cannot sway capoeira.

Tiago Harris

Capoeira is more than a game. It’s a way of life.