Description

Capoeira group started in Rio de Janeiro after 1964 by middle-class young men around the Flores brothers, building on what Mestre Bimba had taught them. It won the Berimbau de Ouro tournament in 1967-1969 and its training methods, graduation system and style became a model for many groups; in 1974 it split into academies led by its red-belt teachers.

Also known as

Senzala

Founded

• person
  Rafael Flores

Members (2)

• person
  Mestre Nestor Capoeira

  1968

  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.

  “M.Nestor Capoeira, who joined the Senzala in 1968”

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

  1972

  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

  1 source expand_more

  fact_check

  Single source.

  “Camisa Roxa’s younger brother José Tadeu Cardoso (M. Camisa, then still called Camisinha) arrived in 1972 and soon became a leading figure in the Senzala group”

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

Locations (1)

• Laranjeiras, Rio de Janeiro

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  “After a trip to Bahia in 1964, where they trained with M.Bimba for some months, the urban [...] professional and fazendeiro (owner of a large estate) Rafael Flores and his brother Paulo decided to resume capoeira exercises on the veranda of their penthouse flat in Laranjeiras.”

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

Tags

capoeira

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