|Capoeira Angola Training w/ Contramestre Pererê - Portland, OR - Winter 2009 |
Contramestre Pererê offers weekly public training sessions in traditional capoeira angola - a magical martial art - the foundations of which include: Off-the-hook movement skills, radical & ingenious physical conditioning, inspiring traditional music, and game-ritual skills with substance - all well-rounded with balanced complimentary discussions in capoeira tactics, strategies & philosophy for the awakening visionary cultural-arts guerilla freedom-fighter!!!
Training Times & Locations for Summer 2009
Mondays and Wednesdays - Portland, Oregon
location: Outside the Mestre's Home! We've gone feral for the Summertime!
N. Fremont St. @ Mississippi Ave. Due North and across the river from Downtown Portland.
Taking advantage of the weather and evening light - all formal group trainings are being held outdoors until the Fall. Our regular training base-camp is located just off the corner of N. Fremont St. and Mississippi Ave. However!: On very short notice the trainings are relocated to various beautiful & awesome areas around town to bring some of the natural city environment into our capoeira experience. So don't be shy, come on out and explore capoeira angola. Recommended that new students make contact via email (info@palmaresnw.com) to get hip to where we are meeting that week.
Monday Evenings - 1.5 hour training session: from 7 to 8:30pm (Usually to Dark. - Jogo Alto (higher game) movements & fundamentals with music and game/ritual practice. Check below for info on training tuition.
Jogo Alto training refers to movements executed in a more open and upright standing position (as opossed to the more contracted, concealed, and close-to-ground manuevers of 'low play'). And because players are 'standing up' and more extended, the potential to fall down increases greatly. And so training in this modality explores falling and recovery skills as well as basic acrobatic flourishes and body inversions. Important to this type of training is the development powerful, serpentine, and fluidly efficient technique that invigorates the body & mind. Beginners are most welcome as every student trains at their own level and gets specific feedback from the mestre in order to improve. Game play, ritual, musical, and self-defense skills particular to this Jogo (game) are also regularly covered in each training.
New students explore fundamental solo drills and are introduced to fundamental movements by the mestre along with assisting senior students. They are introduced to proper & relaxed posture and breathing which allows energy to flow and technique to become tight. lessons include how to open up the senses and take in greater amounts of sensory information and organize this into developing game skills and body flexibility, timing, strength, stamina, and coordination. As they grasp the fundamentals new students are phased into regular training with more senior students.
Wednesday Evenings - 1.5 hour session: from 7pm to 8:30pm (Usually to Dark) movement and jogo Embaixo (lower game) fundamentals with additional music and game/ritual practice. Check below for info on training tuition.
Jogo Embaixo training refers to movements executed in more 'closed-up' and protected postures which are done closer to the ground utilizing the supports of the hands and head as well as the feet. Game play in this modality is fully immersed in traditional concepts of Malicia, Mandinga, and Malandragem - which develop and employ advantageous mental attitudes, sharp senses, and physical attributes of guile, trickery, cunning (and humor!) which are all hallmarks of outstanding Capoeira Angola. Beginners are most welcome - as every student trains at their own level and gets specific feedback from the mestre in order to improve. Game, ritual, and self-defense skills particular to this Jogo are also regularly covered in each training.
New students explore fundamental solo drills and learn how to pattern basic movement transitions which include defensive evasions, falling skills, breathing and coordinated relaxation. As they develop they are phased into training with more senior students.
contact us at info@palmaresnw.com for more info.
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FOR NEW PARTICIPANTS: Your first training session with us is free, with the expressed invitation for new participants to come check out our energy, our community vision, and our positive & motivated training environment. If they then decide to return, new students are asked to pay drop-in fees of $10 per each training session with the option of a monthly tuition if you wish to join our community and become a serious student and member of our extendedcommunity. We practice movements with a focus on conditioning, technical proficiency & effective self-defense, along with music, songs, and game playing and ritual skills and strategy regularly in every session.
CAPOEIRA ANGOLA PALMARES: The tradition and lineage of capoeira angola which is practiced here in our community is very old and rare and is considered a sacred thing by its devotees and adepts from past generations of players down to today. Capoeira Angola Palmares is an organizational structure created and lead by mestre No to ensure the sustainable transmission of this traditions, and the collected knowledge and wisdom of capoeira angola to future generations.
It is the mestre's belief & wisdom that Capoeira Angola is a transformational path towards greater levels of personal potential, empowerment, and liberty. A process of transformation for both the self and the group that requires the individual to forge themselves anew in order for them to operate at greater levels of potential and possibility - and to insure a safe, esthetically positive, visionary, focused and challenging environment for all initiant students here in our U.S community.
