Master Cicero And Capoeira

My name is Cicero Gabiel Pinto, I am 46 years old and I am a Capoeira http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capoeira Master in the city of Campinas in Sao Paulo. I have been practicing Capoeira for more 28 years. I have been declared Master in 1989.

Capoeira is my hobby and my profession; I love to play Capoeira, teach and spread it. As most martial arts it has a philosophy and it gives man good ciso. Capoeira is more then a fight, it is music, history, dance, acrobatics and , why not, a self defense instrument.

I said fight, but in Capoeira we don’t say we fight we say we play. Here you will be able to see some movies Carlos made from me and my pupils playing, you will see what I mean.

During the play we form a live circle, all participants have already warm up when they join to the circle to play. While the circle claps hands to the beat of the drams and the berimbals, two by two the students play with each other. You will do well to observe that during the entire play they hardly ever touch each other.

The circle is the moment when we show how well prepared our skills are and what could be the strike we could infringe into each other, but the actual blow those not take place.

I have travel outside Brazil to USA and Sweden to teach courses and to make presentations. Capoeira is a Brazilian fight born in the sensalas (The Senzala was a small hut placed outside the master's house, a shack in which the slaves would stay from after sunset to before sunrise, chained to the walls and behind locked doors.) blended with Indian fights and today is practiced by Brazilians of all ethnic origins.