Little help please??

[John Hartman]

Tena koe all im studying angola in new zealand only been doing it for a year but love it, i teach a begginers class when my teacher cant do it injury sick etc. but im wondering what the difference is and which people prefer between angola and regional, and also does angola have the nicknames and rankings (forget the proper term for them). if anyone else is in new zealand by the way do you know how i can find other capoiera classes??? i need to leave this town but dont want to leave capoeira!!!!

Big mihi
A.J

[Rastinha]

Oh, you'll also see on the website that we have classes in Northland, Auckland, Mt. Maunganui, Taranaki, Wellington, Wanganui and Christchurch. There's also a guy in Dunedin from a different group. So you have a bunch of options for places to live!

As for Angola vs. Contemporanea, Angola totally rocks. Our group tends largely towards capoeira angola, and there's just so much to it that it's really exciting. I began training Contemporanea, and found it fun, but once I started training Angola I just found that it had so much more depth, and there were so many more places that it could take me, so I was hooked :).

Capoeira angola uses nicknames too, they're part of the capoeira tradition as a whole, but there's not so much of a need to give everyone a name real early on. Some people get names that stick and that fit them well, and others will find that it's more natural to just be called their real name for most of their capoeira life. We have rankings, but not like Contemporanea. We don't use cordoes, we just have students, and then after many years they graduate and earn a title such as Treinel, Contra-Mestre and eventually Mestre.

[Bruno]

Rastinha's answer was allready very informative.

As for Angola and Regional... instead asking for an option, I advice you to just try it and see for yourself. Every person is different and every person feels different so, good luck man!

Abraço
Bruno

[John Hartman]

thanks man yeah am doing angola at the mo have been since i first heard about capoeira, just have no regional classes nearby thats why i was wondering