Description

Mestre Bimba's capoeira Regional academy in Salvador. Registered with the Bahian Department of Education in 1937; it moved several times.

Also known as

CCFR

Locations (3)

• Tororó, Salvador, Bahia

  1937

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  “Decriminalization came soon in the form of a certificate that a teaching inspector issued on 9 July 1937 to Mestre Bimba, acknowledging him as a teacher of physical education and registering his academy in the Tororó neighbourhood with the Bahian Department of Education, Health and Social Security.”

  — Assunção, Matthias Röhrig. (2005). Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Artlink info
• Roça do Lobo, Salvador, Bahia

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  “His academy moved several times, from the Roça do Lobo during the 1940s to a central location near Pelourinho Square in the 1960s.”

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

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  “His academy moved several times, from the Roça do Lobo during the 1940s to a central location near Pelourinho Square in the 1960s.”

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

Founder

Instructors (2)

• 
  Mestre Bimba

  Head instructorswordsCapoeira Regional

  Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Single source.

  “Bimba and his ‘academy’, the Centro de Cultura Física Regional, or CCFR”

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

  Technical directorswordsCapoeira Regional

  1954 – 1955

  Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

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

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Single source.

  “He became one of the mestre ’s best students, partaking in the exhibition for President Vargas in 1953, and became technical director of Bimba’s academy in 1954. Yet in 1955 he decided to open his own school called Senavox”

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

Trained here (2)

• person
  Angelo Decânio

  swordsCapoeira Regional Probable

  Probable

  Single source.

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

  under Mestre Bimba

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  Single source.

  “Soon other students showed up at Bimba’s academy, among which many future doctors, such as Angelo Decânio.”

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

  swordsCapoeira Regional Possible

  Possible

  One source, and "some time" at the academy may not mean training under Bimba himself.

  Some evidence points to the claim, but it is thin, indirect, or in unresolved conflict with other evidence.

  under Mestre Bimba

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  One source, and "some time" at the academy may not mean training under Bimba himself.

  “He also had spent some time at Bimba’s academy in Salvador before coming to São Paulo.”

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

Tags

capoeira

Sources