The ABC of Old Masters of Capoeira

VELHOS MESTRES 2
2015-2017

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Our page is celebrating its first anniversary!
In the first year we published 3 news, 10 blog updates, 16 mini-ABC-s of Old Masters and 75 posts about the ABC-s of the 5 Old Masters that we had chosen for the page.
Everything was translated into English - this makes 150 posts!

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The posts that you liked the most (from the two years)

M Pastinha: «Peculiarities of Bahia charmed Sartre and Simone», 1960

M Pastinha, 1960

M Besouro: «Besouro incited soldiers to attack the civil police in a police station», 1918

M Besouro, 1918

M Cobrinha Verde: Interviews with M Gato Preto, 1999

M Cobrinha Verde

M Waldemar: «Capoeira in Mestre Waldemar's shrine», 1952

M Waldemar, 1952

M Gato Preto: The Boa Viagem Feast, 1963

M Gato Preto, 1963

About the Old Masters:

«[Besouro's] first contact with the world of capoeira took place with an old african called Alípio, who was a captive in the Pantaleão Mill. When planting sugarcane, the student heard and learned from the old man the teachings of capoeira. Uncle Alípio was a Babalawo [candomblé priest] and had been a slave when young, a son of a black woman who was brought in a ship from the port of São Jorge da Mina in Dahomey [Benin].»
Abib, 2009
«Mestre Pastinha and his students would put the strap [of caxixi] around the little and the ring finger. He talks about this in his book, and it can be seen on the photographies taken in his Academy.»
Shaffer, 1977
«Rafael I don't know with whom he learned, don't know. I knew him here when he was capoeira mestre. I didn't have much knowledge about him. But later he came here to Pero Vaz [..] He also had his academy in the city. I didn't have integration with him.»
M Waldemar, 1987
«The deceased Traíra was who took care of the roda. I went there, gave my order and went to have a beer. I was made.»
M Waldemar in Abreu, 2003
«That time there was a group [in São Braz]: it was me, Messias [M Messias, born in 1929], Zinho, Genesio, Lao, Tomazinho, Jaime, Chumbinho [..] So we had this group of boys who were all 16, 15-16 years old. And we used to get together on Saturdays and Sundays to do this capoeira. And Léo was the mestre.»
M Gato Preto, 1999

VELHOS MESTRES 2
2015-2017