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Professional and estate owner from Rio de Janeiro who trained with Mestre Bimba in Bahia for some months in 1964 and then, with his brother Paulo, started the capoeira group Senzala on the veranda of their flat in Laranjeiras.

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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.

  (1964)

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  Frederico Muñoz

  Researcher, Martialis

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  fact_check

  Single source.

  “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

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