School

[Spiderbyte]

Hey Guys,
I have to do a report for school.
It has to be a report about a place or thing.
I need help comin up with some ideas for what to do my project on.
Everything sounds soo cool.
Can anybody tell what I could do it on?
Also send some facts.
~Karen

[ecuadorian_capoeirista69]

was sup!
I have an idea on what you can do it on! you can do it on capoeira. Well have played capoeira for about 10 years know I kind of know some of the history behind capoeira. Well capoeira originated in africa which they brought to brazil by protuguese slave trader aruond the 17 century. druing the slave trading era. IT involves a mixture of dancing and fight to the beat of music (you do a lot of hand stands cartwheels, and flips mostly back flips).slaves had no way to defend themselves so they devloped a capoeira as self-defense and disguised it as a ritualistic dance. slaves would play capoeira as a way of training secretly from their masters. since it looked likes dancing the master did mind them doing that. Later they found out and capoeira was outlawed. since most people in brazil knew capoeira all the thiefs jack people using capoeira. gangs got into fights using capoeira. It became like a sort of under ground fight club. around the 1930's with the help of mestre(master)bimba it was then later allowed in the brazil and around the 1970's capoeira was brought into the states is know considered an art from.capoeira is now openly played on the streets and taught in schools across the country. capoeira is basically a game and there a bunch of small game with in the "hoda" (the group or circle). every capoeirista has to know how to play every musical instrument involved in the hoda. like the drums( like ricky ricardo) the berimbau(one stringed tighted on a stick) well let me know if you want to know more




[Edited by ecuadorian_capoeirista69 on 23rd March 2003 at 12:53]