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academia - capoeira school - aluno
- student of a capoeira master;
same as discipulo
- Angola
- a traditional style of
capoeira
- Angoleiro
- a practitioner of the
Angola style
- arame
- metal string on the berimbau
- arrastao
- capoeira takedown, pulling
both legs from under an opponent
- ataque
- attacking move or movement
initiative
- aú
- cartwheel
- aviso - a berimbau rythmn, formerly
used to warn players of a police raid
- balanço
- part of the basic capoeira
move (ginga); torso rocks forward and back as the weight shifts
- bamba
- someone adept at verbal or
physical sparring; capoeira expert
- banda
- movement to trip or flank an
opponent
- barravent
- a berimbau rythmn; refers
to a prepossesion trance state
- base
- base, the ginga, the
fundamental movement
- batizado
- the capoeira initiation
ceremony; baptism
- bênção
- blessing; a front kick
- berimbau
- lead instrument in
capoeira, a musical bow
- bôca de siri
- 'crab's mouth'
movement
- brincar
- to play like a child
- cabaça
- gourd used as the resonator
on the berimbau
- cabeçada
- head butt
- camará
- comrade; capoeira college
- capoeirista
- a capoeira player
- cavalaria
- 'cavalry,' a berimbau
rhythm formerly used to warn of a police raid
- caxixí
- woven rattle played with the
berimbau
- chamada
- 'call,' a named subroutine
of capoeira play,the basic kind of inner game
- chula
- special introductory song,
always follows ladainha
- cocorinha
- squatting movement
- comprar de jôgo
- to buy a game,
entering the circle by cutting in on another player
- contragolpe
- counterattack - to
respond to an initiative
- contramestre
- an instructor working
under a master's guidance in an academy
- cordão
- colored belt awarded to mark
grades of advancement in some academies
- corridos
- call and response songs
accompanying action in the circle
- dá volta ao mundo
- 'take a turn
around the world', a named subroutine of play that involves circling the ring
- defesa
- defensive move or movement
response
- desequilibrante
- movement that
unbalances the opponent
- discípulo
- disciple, student of a
capoeira master
- dobrão
- coin used to play the
berimbau
- esquiva
- escape movement
- fechar
o corpo - to close the body
- floreios
- acrobatic movements
- formatura
- graduation ceremony for a
new capoeira master
- fuga
- flight, a catagory of defensive
movements
- ginga
- the fundamental capoeira
movement
- golpe
- strike or blow; attacking
movement
- iaiá, ioiô
- terms used by slaves
for daughters and sons of the master
- jogador
- player
- jogar
- to play games
- jôgo
- game
- ladainha
- litany, and introductory
solo, usually sung by a master
- ligeiro
- swift, quick; nimble, agile;
slippery, dishonest
- maculêlê
- another martial arts
dance to music, involving rhythmic stick play
- malandragem
- hooliganism, shady
activities; synonym for capoeira play
- malandro
- street tough, hoodlum,
scoundrel, con man,bad guy
- malícia
- deception, trickery,
cunning, double-dealing, indirection
- mandigueiro
- sorceror; healer;
synonym for capoeira player
- mangangá
- medicine man
- martelo
- 'hammer' kick; a rhymed song
form
- meia-lua de compasso
- 'half moon in a
compass,' a spinning kick
- mestre
- master, senior capoeira
teacher
- mocambo
- fugitive slave community
- moeda
- coin used to play the berimbau
- moleque
- street urchin
- nome de guerra
- nickname given to a
player in the course of his training, sometimes as part of a batizado initiation
- pandeiro
- tambourine
- passada
- footwork, especially in the
ginga
- patuá
- protective amulet
- pé
- 'foot', position in front of the
berimbau
- pião
- 'spinning top,' headspin (no
hands)
- queda
- fall, basic way to lose
advantage in the game
- quilombo
- fugitive slave community
- rabo de arraia
- 'stingray's tail'
kick
- rasteira
- sweep; the basic takedown
- reco-reco
- ribbed bamboo scraper in
capoeira musical ensemble
- recuo
- retreat move, usually with one
hand on the ground
- Regional
- innovative, modern style of
capoeira, associated with Mestre Bimba
- roda
- circle; space for playing
capoeira
- saída
- exit, most formal way to
enter ring; one 'exits' from the foot of the berimbau
- samba duro
- hard samba, involves
tripping people while dancing
- seqüência
- sequence of moves
learned by players in Regional style
- rocar
- to play music
- vadiação
- loafing, hanging around;
synonym for capoeira
- vaqueta
- stick used to strike the
string of the berimbau
- vara
- wooden pole that is the body of
the berimbau
- vêrga
- wooden pole that is the body
of the berimbau
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