Capoeira Salvador bahia: My love story with capoeira

My capoeira love story before leaving for Bahia
Yes only two more weeks to go and i am on a capoeira training in Salvador Bahia.

In 2002, i started capoeira in a Groupe called Capoeira Brasil. It was in fact a young but good capoeiriste that was trying to become instructor that was training us once a week in Colombes (city attached to Paris).
After one year a training i decided to start break dancing and than i came back to capoeira 4 years after in a small Swedish town called Örebro. At the beginning we were an independant capoeira groupe, but at the end of 2006 we get in contact with some people from the groupe Besouro Manganga and started to be under their wings. The first year with Besouro Manganga leaded by Mestre Lobao in Brasil and Instructor Careca + Boca in Sweden was great (a lot of workshop and great batizado with mestre Lobao and contra mestre lua branca from capoeira Male...). Meanwhile the second year, the number of workshop and training we had in Örebro from instructor Boca or Careca were really limited due to the fact that both instructors received at the same time the fantastic gift of life = a Baby :]. Anyway in Örebro the capoeira groupe has always be selfsufficient, thanks to Fred, Barsom, Peixe, Mafioso, Annika, Gaoutcho and now Anders there is always someone motivated to lead the training and have fun together :]. In this groupe my appelido is Baguette, yeah it is cool to be french :0...... I could writte a lot about this groupe but the goal of this blogg is more focus on Capoeira in Salvador de bahia.

I am from Paris, and in Paris there is many capoeira groupe to choose from. Only one probleme which one should i choose ? I went back from Sweden in September 2008 and has tried two type of capoeira in Paris. One from the groupe Abada = training in Portuguese and quite intensive (technics and physic). Another from the Association Vamos which is under the groupe Senzala = great for real beginners due to the 14 training a week and friendly instructors but for advance i don t know cause i haven t seen them due to the fact that they have their special training (and to get in you need apparently to be advance... but if you are between beginners and advance when is your training?). So on my way back from brasil i need again to spend some time to find a capoeira groupe that feets me and that is close to my work and home.

Capoeira brasil Paris