Cisnando Lima

Description

Medical student from Ceará and Mestre Bimba's first white, middle-class capoeira student, in the early 1930s; he had learned ju-jitsu from a Japanese teacher.

Teachers (1)

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  Mestre Bimba

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  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 eventually convinced Bimba to teach him, successfully passing the famous entry test, and thus became his first white, middle-class student in the early 1930s.”

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

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