Jair Moura · Lineage tree

Description

Capoeira historian from Salvador who trained with Mestre Bimba in the 1950s.

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  Mestre Bimba

  swordsCapoeira Regional Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

  The evidence favours the claim and nothing credible contradicts it, but it falls short of establishing it.

  fact_checkassessed by FSMverified

  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Jair Moura, son of lawyer, PCB leader and deputy Jaime Alves Moura, trained with Bimba during the 1950s.”

  — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info

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