Artur Emídio de Oliveira

Also known as

Mestre Artur Emídio

Description

Capoeira mestre from Itabuna, southern Bahia, who fought prize matches from 1948, taught in Rio de Janeiro from the 1950s with an academy in Bonsucesso, trained most of the city's 1960s mestres and was among the first to show capoeira abroad.

Teachers (1)

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  Mestre Paizinho

  swordsCapoeira 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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  Single source.

  “He spent his youth in Itabuna, the capital of the cacao zone, where he practised different martial arts and learned capoeira from M.Paizinbo [sic] (Teodoro Ramos).”

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

Students (1)

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  Mestre Paulo Gomes

  swordsCapoeira 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.

  “Gomes was originally from Bahia but became a student of Artur Emídio whilst living in Rio.”

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

  “Most of the capoeira mestres that emerged during the 1960s—Leopoldina, Paulo Gomes, Celso do Engenho da Rainha and Djalma Bandeira—were his students.”

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

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