Mestre Nenel

Description

Capoeira Regional mestre in Salvador, a son and student of Mestre Bimba, who keeps his father's original Regional teaching.

Teachers (1)

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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.

  “Probably the main reference here is Mestre Nenel, and his brothers Demerval and Luís, sons of the late Bimba.”

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

  “He and other students of Bimba vehemently question the assumption that the contemporary, mainstream capoeira is Regional.”

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

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