Capoeira is the common name of a group of martial arts that originate in West Africa and Modifed and mixed in Brazil. The original stlyes inculded weapons, and worked as a type of animal that becomes the leading incorpated various components, and all the folk art styles.
In 1500, black slaves from Africa were used to build empire in Brazil from sugar cane. It is a type of slave self-defense, and it was quite parallel to Karate, Martial Arts, the work developed, they were arrested, namely, sugar cane knives and 3 / 4 people. Are slaves, they explore the art of disguise, and how the dance was his. Their hands were handcuffed most of the time, that stands on its feet so take a hands-on art, and some move to fight the enemy mounted.
Early 1800's Capoeira was banned in Brazil because the "country" is in Bahia, where gangs used to fight with your own personal style to the police.
Capoeira was born "senzalas" where slaves were kept, and develop the "quilombos", places where they used to run when they fled their enslavers.
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