Capoeira is a dance-like martial art with its roots in 16th-century Brazil. Devised in secret by African slaves as a fighting technique but disguised as a performing art, capoeira came to ...

In 1932, a man named Manoel dos Reis Machado opened the first capoeira school. The sport was still illegal, so Mestre Bimba (as he was known) simply called it the Bahia fighting style. His school ...

Capoeira is considered to be one of the symbols of Brazilian culture. With millions of followers worldwide, capoeira is a blend of martial arts, acrobatics and dance choreography. The cultures of ...

"For so many years, I was not fighting," da Silva recently told MMA ... And boy does da Silva "flow." With capoeira in his DNA, da Silva has made it a mission to dispel misconceptions about ...

I trained with lucha libre people in Mexico.” Seeing as Sanji’s fighting style is commonly regarded as a combination of the Brazilian Capoeira, French Savate, and even Taekwondo, it makes ...