Capoeira
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Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art and game that includes elements of dance, acrobatics, music, and spirituality.
Capoeira or the Dance of War by Johann Moritz Rugendas, 1825
San Salvador, 1835, by Rugendas. "The scene is set in a clearing surrounded by tropical vegetation and palm trees, corresponding precisely to the space called capoeira in Brazil."
Panel by Alfredo Storni featuring capoeirista Ciríaco defeating jujitsu fighter Sada Miyako with a rabo de arraia kick, O Malho, 1909.
Capoeiristas outside
Agenor Moreira Sampaio
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Agenor Moreira Sampaio, commonly known as Mestre Sinhozinho, was a mestre or master practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira. He was the main exponent of the fighting-oriented style
Capoeira
…as an organized style. Capoeira was listed as a crime in the Brazilian penal code of 1890. Main proponents of this fighting-oriented capoeira were Mestre Sinhozinho and Mestre Zuma. In this period, capoeiristas usually carried knives and bladed weapons with them, or hid blades in unusual places such as umbrellas…
Mestre Sinhozinho