Capoeira Axè Firenze

Informations

Mestre Boca Nua

Phone: +39 347 3393296

e-mail: capoeirafirenze@gmail.com

Events

Capoeira Events

Events

Roda Zumbi's death anniversary (Black Awareness Day)

Roda Zumbi’s death anniversary (Black Awareness Day).

On 22 november at San Nicolo’s gym starting at 7pm. There will be a Roda to conmemorate Zumbi dos palmares on the anniversario of his death. Mestres and other guests will participate

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumbi

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Batizado 2023

Batizado Capoeira Axè 2023.

Batizado is back!

We open the doors to guests and capoeristas. Friday 19 e Saturday 20 may, we celebrate capoeira with music, capoeira stages and rodas. Mestres and professors will partecipate at the event.

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Batizado 2022

Batizado Capoeira Axè 2022.

Batizado is back!

After two difficult years we reopen the doors to guests and capoeristas. Friday 20 e Saturday 21 may, we celebrate capoeira with music, capoeira stages and rodas. Mestres and professors will partecipate at the event.

Program

Friday 20 from 5pm to 8pm

Saturday 21 from 2pm to 8pm

Palestra San Niccolò - Via San Miniato 6, Firenze

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Back to San Niccolò

We begin the new year with great news, from january 7th will take place back in San Niccolò gym

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Restauration works in San Niccolò gym

From 08 September 2021 capoeira trainings will continue at parco delle cascine. San Niccolò gym is under restauration works and not accessible at the moment. Will be back at San Niccolò when works will finish. If the works will last longer than expected (1st october) e the winter will come, we’ll temporarily move into another gym. For any informations get in touch with Mestre Boca Nua

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Event 2021

Capoeira Event 2021.

After the missing Batizado of these two years, Axè group organizes an outdoor event. From 17/06 to 19/06, three days of capoeira with guests and open rodas at parco delle cascine, in the gardens in front of agraria university. The event will be attended by children and adults!

Thursday 17 from 5pm: training and roda of Capoeira

Friday 18 from 5pm: stage, roda of Capoeira and party!

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Social Olympics

Saturday 15 may, Capoeira Axè group will partecipate at the Social Olympics event at parco delle cascine. There will be many other sports of the Florentine territory.

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Outdoor Lessons

Despite last diffult months, we didn’t stop, keeping on activities online, finally we can meet again and share the pure energy of capoeira. From wednesday 5 may capoeira lessons will take place at parco delle cascine, in the garden in front of Agraria University.

Wednesday and Friday from 7pm to 9pm

For info keep in touch with Mestre Boca Nua

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Back To the gym

From 03 June 2020 lessons restart at San Niccolò’s gym! Lessons will be taken in respect of laws regarding Covid-19 until the end of the emergency. The gym has adopted precautions to keep everyone safe. You’ll find disinfectant gel, the entrance and the exit are separated and the place will be sanitized at the end of each lesson. You are asked to sign your presence each time on a paper that you’ll find at the entrance in order to avoid the virus spreading. Thanks for your collaboration

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Online Lessons

Capoeira never stops, not even in front of the worst problem. This is the spirit of the real capoeirista, therefore Axè group restart with online lessons which will be taken though the Zoom application.

For info get in touch with Mestre Boca Nua

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Batizado 2020 (CANCELLED)

Batizado de Capoeira 2020.

CANCELLED DUE TO CORANAVIRUS EMERGENCY

From 29/05 to 31/05, a weekend full of emotions, trainings, cultural exchange, music and party. Come visit us at San Niccolò’s gym

Friday 29 from 6pm: trainings and roda de Capoeira

Saturday 30 from 10am: trainings, stages, roda de Capoeira and at evening dinner and live music

Sunday 31 from 10am: Kids Batizado in the morning, adults Batizado in the afternoon

Capoeira

Capoeira

History

The Origins

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art. However, this definition succeeds only partly in defining the peculiar nature of this discipline. The African origins are to be traced back to the slave period, when different ethnic groups were uprooted from their African homelands and forcefully transferred to Brazil, to be used in the plantations, mines and houses of their owners.

A fighting and personal defense technique, Capoeira became a true instrument of defense for the slaves, giving them the opportunity to respond to the violence they endured, and to escape and reach the “Quilombos” - the Republics set up and organized by runaway slaves, where Capoeira was freely practiced. Etymological studies of the word “Capoeira” take us to a concept of “clearing”, “sparse woodlands” and “cleared terrain”. Oral traditions speak of such places as places where Capoeira was practiced and as the type of terrain where it was best to confront the “capitaes do mato” who tried to capture the runaway slaves, before continuing the escape. Other sources compare the game of Capoeira to cock-fighting or to the male of a type of partridge called “capoeira”, very jealous and very aggressive when fighting with rivals. Yet other sources point to the possibility that Capoeira became identified with “capoeiras” (baskets) containing poultry, which the slaves carried to the markets - thus linking to these baskets carried by slaves the game practiced by these same slaves.

Capoeira

Practise

The Spirit of Capoeira

Capoeira provides a precise and complete athletic preparation which allows the capoerista to use all the various movements during the game - basic, offensive, defensive and acrobatic movements. The comparison with other martial arts emerges from the common use of certain movements in such a manner as to confront the opponent, but the originality consists in following the rhythm of the instruments and transforming the encounter into a moment of true creativity. The spirit of a Capoeira confrontation lies in the study of the opponent, in the observation of the rival using “malandragem” (astuteness, shrewdness), and in using one movement to spark off a whole succession of further movements. The moment of confrontation is a moment of play. Each person can experience Capoeira in a different manner: as dance, as combat, as a game. The Roda becomes a place of confrontation, of ability, of communication. It is a moment of experiences gained, a moment of exchange. A complete form of art, Capoeira can be practiced at any age. A complete discipline because, aside the athletic opportunity, it holds within itself a high potential for a creative development of the personality and of the capacity to socialize. Respect for the Maestro as holder of a precious knowledge (which the pupil in turn will have to know how to pass on), respect for the opponent, the capacity to respond to a more or less critical situation using skill and within the boundaries of a correct and fair game - these are the foundations of this art. Each situation within a confrontation represents a unique moment, distinctive and unrepeatable. Each personal performance adds ability and experience, enriching each capoerista’s growth. The Roda is a world - or better, the World - which needs to be faced with some kind of philosophy. That philosophy, that way of life, is Capoeira.

Events

Batizado 2019

Batizado de Capoeira 2019. From 17/05 to 19/05, a weekend full of emotions, trainings, cultural exchange, music and party. Come visit us at San Niccolò’s gym

Friday 17 from 6pm: trainings and roda de Capoeira

Saturday 18 from 10am: trainings, stages, roda de Capoeira and at evening dinner and live music

Sunday 19 from 10am: Kids Batizado in the morning, adults Batizado in the afternoon

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Exibithion Urban Gym

Saturday 20 October Capoeira exibithion

PALESTRA URBAM GYM FIRENZE PORTA ROMANA

Boca Nua

For me Capoeira is knowing how to unite strength with harmony, respect with courage and song with poetry, creating in this way a big circle called Roda where every Capoerista can best express each one of these characteristics, emphasizing the positive energy of the Roda, balancing strength, courage and poetry.

Mestre Boca Nua

Training

Mestre Boca Nua, Cosme Soares de Oliveira was born on the 27th of September 1963 in Salvador-Bahia Brazil. From the age of ten he attends Capoeira schools and meetings. Soon he becomes passionate about this art and decides to abandon the world of football, in order to dedicate himself wholly to the learning of this mysterious and powerful art. At the age of seventeen he receives the chance to travel to Europe and Canada, to work with various Brazilian folk performance groups. In 1983 Mestre Boca Nua returned to Brazil to complete his studies of capoeira: he considered very important to meet other capoeira schools in different cities across Brazil. He travelled to Rio de Janeiro where he stayed until 1990: during this period he had the opportunity to visit various rodas of many gruops, as well as participating to batizados and seminars. After these experiences he returned to Salvador de Bahia to receive his diploma of Mestre of Capoeira. In 1992 Mestre Boca Nua left Brazil to represent his country at Spain’s Expo exhibition in Seville. In 1993 he returned to Salvador de Bahia where he stayed for two years working with children and adolescents, developing through the teachings of capoeira a very rewarding work with the society of Bahia. During these two years he started to write a project involved with the development of capoeira in the periphery, primary schools and institutes for disadvantaged children in Bahia. At the same time he also visited academies as the Academia de Mestre King Kong, Academia Mestre Bimba under the supervision of Mestre Bamba, Mestre Dinho, Mestre Romeu and various street rodas across the city.

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