{"id":294,"date":"2014-11-30T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2014-11-30T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T17:14:19","slug":"capoeira-martial-arts-with-music-dance-and-acrobatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Capoeira: Martial Arts with Music, Dance and Acrobatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/capoeira.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-295\" src=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/capoeira.jpg\" alt=\"capoeira\" width=\"340\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/capoeira.jpg 340w, https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/capoeira-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>I saw\u00a0the movie &#8220;Only the Strong&#8221; where an instructor decides to teach Capoeira to troubled inner\u00a0city high school students.\u00a0 This was my first introduction to a brazilian martial art that incorporate music, rythmn, and fighting practice into one art form.\u00a0 I found a local Capoeira Club in San Jose\u00a0within a couple of weeks.\u00a0 I started attending regularly and got my first belt in that year. My new friends and I would go to night clubs for dancing and form circles to &#8220;battle&#8221;\u00a0 (show off) against the &#8220;street dancers&#8221;.\u00a0 When I moved away from this first club,\u00a0 I started my own club by hiring a Mestre (&#8220;instructor&#8221;) who travel from Sacramento to Grass Valley a couple of times a week.\u00a0 We held classes in a dance room above the Center for the Performing Arts.\u00a0 I got my second belt the following year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Capoeira\u00a0was as immersive as it gets and such a fit for me.\u00a0 In a &#8220;hoda&#8221; circle we sang portugeese songs, played drums and string instruments while two fighters danced in a musical acrobatics with\u00a0continuous rotation way\u00a0. . .\u00a0legs and arms wailing just missing the opponent as this was a &#8220;no contact&#8221; support.\u00a0 I had no idea that this multisensory activity spoke to and improved my\u00a0neurological condition.\u00a0 It was fun, it was a group of athletics, it was truly a performing art.\u00a0 Every young and old with learning disability should look at martial arts and my personal favorite,\u00a0 Capoeira.\u00a0 Capoeira is motion therapy with sensory integration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw\u00a0the movie &#8220;Only the Strong&#8221; where an instructor decides to teach Capoeira to troubled inner\u00a0city high school students.\u00a0 This was my first introduction to a brazilian martial art that incorporate music, rythmn, and fighting practice into one art form.\u00a0 I found a local Capoeira Club in San Jose\u00a0within a couple of weeks.\u00a0 I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonsmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}