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Where the Berimbau Plays
20071110, 5:01 am

Take me to where the Berimbau plays!
Let me sing and dance and play the game!
Let me into the roda so I may take my turn
Shake hands and smile as we teach and learn.
OH Capoeira you've infested my soul
OH Capoeira you made me love you so.
Release from my heart all anger and hate
As I play the game with my friends today.
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I'm almost through reading a book I picked up just 3 days ago. Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game was written by Nestor Capoeira. It is number two in a series of three books. I'll be picking the other two up over the next couple of months.

This is really an excellent book that covers the history and philosophies behind Capoeira. It has opinions not just of the author, but of other well known Capoeiristas to include words of both Mestre Bimba and Mestre Pastihna. Both Angola… Continue