"Ao som do berimbau: Capoeira", is a book that fills an empty space in the spreading of Capoeira. Due to the youth of this sport and the handicap of the language of its sphere, newcomers find it difficult to discover the social and cultural wealth around it until he is fully involved. And even then, once your are fully inside capoeira, it is very difficult to get lost among its plasticity, its rhythms, and never get to know its deep roots, its meanings and the people who have fought for keeping a cultural identity and a tradition alive.
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Thank you for your interest in Editorial Alas´ publication: "Ao som do berimbau: capoeira" by Formado Comprido.
 
You are going to discover a book about Capoeira, Brazil’s martial art, the flight of the black slave that yearns for freedom.
 

Its multiple meanings will take us beyond a simple game of amazing perfection between comrades, a pretentious search for self-control of the individual educated through its practice with essential educational values and a vast poetic and instrumental richness. Infused with strong historical and socio-cultural essence, Capoeira has been able to resist the passing of time and today it shapes an enigmatic universe that contains traditions and behaviour patterns, a methodical discipline in constant evolution.

Formado Comprido (Mestre Dinho´s International Capoeira Group Topazio), taking numerous studies about capoeira as a reference with the supervision of Mestre Dinho and thanks to the contribution of Luiz Renato Vieira (Mestre Renato), presents in this book a mature vision of the principles that guide it, advice and opinions from the Mestres he admires since he started his own experience and more than 400 photographs that illustrate the basic movements during the learning process of the techniques that a capoeirist uses.