Capoeira Brasil Hood River
What: We are a growing Capoeira school in Hood River, Oregon
When: Adult classes are every-other Saturday 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Where: Classes are at Empowered Aerial Arts, 202 Cascade Ave, Hood River, OR
The Teachers: Classes are taught by Instrutor Lagosta and Monitor Texugo
How Much: Class are $15 for 90 minutes, you can pay by app, cash, or check
Contact: Call, Text, or email to confirm when classes are: (503) 383-1136 LagostaPortland@gmail.com
Capoeira a traditional Brazilian martial art that incorporates self-defense, gymnastics, acrobatics, music, and culture. Capoeira is a game of human chess with live music and energy where two players at spar, reacting to each other’s attacks by escaping and moving around each other. Each attack is dodged and met with a counter attacks as they attempt to catch each other off guard. The goal is to create flow, and demonstrating your prowess and making beautiful interactions as you go
Capoeira is not only a martial art, it looks beautiful. Between kicks we often use “floreios” or "beautiful movement” like cartwheels, back bends, ground movements, break dance moves (capoeira and break dancing grew up together in NYC), and even back flips to connect and transition between movements to create physical dialogue with our partner. However, you do not need to do amazing gymnastics movements to play capoeira, each player finds what works best for them and learns to express them self with what movements they do best.
Practitioners of capoeira never fight, they play. Though capoeira is home to some of the most powerful strikes of any martial art, if we broke our partners, we would have no one to play with. Capoeira is about so much more. A good capoeirista uses trickery, traps, and strategy because the mind is the greatest weapon. Also, capoeira finds its roots in African martial arts that were literally games children and adults would play.
Capoeira is very social. Unlike other martial arts, different capoeira schools routinely visit each other for special events like belt graduations, rodas (sparing with live music and people standing in a circle), and play capoeira together even if their styles are slightly or very different. Respect and interaction among different schools is a key principal in capoeira.