Heads Up Lancaster

Published by Touro | Filed under articles, blog, happenings, news

HEADS UP is a community-based non-profit organization based in lancaster city, pa dedicated to Helping Empower And Develop Students – Unleashing Potential, through various creative and performance arts.

Due to funding cuts from the state to our district, our two-and-a-half year history as the most requested and contracted service provider in the after-school setting is in jeopardy (formerly the Know More! Programs). In faith, we are working to establish ourselves as an indepedent non-profit, seeking support from local businesses, churches, families and organizations to continue to empower students through our programs – regardless of state funds.
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Becoming good at capoeira

Published by Tanque | Filed under articles, training

Here is an article I found on another site. I thought it was helpful and will post it here.

Becoming good at capoeira is not easy. Like anything worthwhile, excelling at capoeira takes lots of time, practice, and dedication. You cannot step into your first capoeira class and expect to leave doing backflips. Even if you’ve been playing for a number of years, there is always room for improvement. Sometimes we hit a “plateau” where we feel like we can’t progress any further. I’ve been there, we all have.
With this in mind, I’m going to try to give some advice on how to improve your capoeira game. Whether you are a beginner and feel like you could never even do a cartwheel, or an advanced capoeirista who has slammed into a wall, this advice will help you at any stage.
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The Music

Published by coqui | Filed under experiences, music

well since noone is taking the time to write on the blog i thought i should write something to break the ice…. music…. i know how important it is to me…. in fact it is sooooo important that i try and learn a new song when ever possible.

how many of you actually try and learn new songs on your own? or do you just depend on your instructor to teach a new song in class? or is your excuse (i cant speak portuguese) there are many ways you can learn new songs and find out what they sound like. for example you can go on limewire or itunes to find some capoeira songs or just look for these mestres…. mestre suasuna, mestre barrao, mestre tony vargas, just to name a few.

also not all mestres can sing with axe…..sad to say some write music that will put you to sleep rather than make you want to play, so choose wisely lol. and here is another question, why isn’t there an american capoeira song writer? all of the cd’s are made by brazilians. come on people there should be more cd’s out there with americans singing in them. maybe i should be the first! hahahah graduado coqui to the resssscccueeeee!!!! till the next blog…god bless and good night!

The Blog Is Up!

Published by Touro | Filed under blog, happenings, news

Do you want to blog on PennsylvaniaCapoeira.com? It’s really easy! Simply go here and click on ‘register’. You can then log into the site and post to the blog by clicking on ‘write’ and then ‘write post’. Write whatever you’d like but make sure that you check ‘blog’ in the categories box to the right of the page. After that, hit ‘publish’ and there ya go! You’re a bloggin machine!