Slave dances

What can reflect the national mentality brighter than the sacred art of whipping a muzzle to his neighbor? Asian will flutter around you in a Timid Panda style, a resident of the British Isles will box according to the tradition established in 1127 at the pub "Royal boar" in Rochester, sir William, and if in the course of the fittings went-it means that you are not abroad, and already within the CIS. However, when on the battlefield thunders cry "Kurwa!!!"we should not forget that Poland is also strong.
Nowadays, all the above features are found everywhere - the opposite of globalization can not be trampled. Seeing strange people in white pants, those present at the dances and strange spinning and then falling to the ground in a pose of a cat who needs a belly RUB - do not even doubt that the Brazilian is in front of you - it's capoeira.

Once upon a time, at the beginning of the XVI century, the Portuguese led by Pedro Alvares discovered a new land and immediately figured out how to use it - began to grow sugar cane on it. So Brazil became a colony of Portugal. Of course, the noble person does not work solidly in person - in the beginning there were attempts to employ local Indians. This was not a very good decision: they quickly died from hard work and lack of immunity to new sores. Portuguese, following the most fashionable trends, brought to work on plantations of black slaves from other colonies - Angola, Mozambique, Guinea and Congo.

Boys and girls from the dark continent have found the conditions of their existence is highly constrained: the whole day working in the fields, and on holidays - view to favorite hosts. Attempts to openly change their position were unsuccessful, greatly hindered the shackles and taskmasters. Therefore slaves added elements of acrobatics and hand-to-hand fight to ritual dances brought from Africa, having disguised thus the trainings under rehearsals of carnivals. So on the Negro holidays-batuk Mature sprouts of rebellion.
Perhaps the slave-owners was very surprised when one day prekrastny their personal property, breaking the shackles and openav supervisors, went to the rhythm of the dance in the direction of the jungle.

In the remote corners of the palm forests, former slaves created their settlements-kilomba, which by 1630 had grown so much that they formed the state - the Republic of Palmaris - which existed under the government blockade for about seventy years. The main tasks of the country were to ensure the protection of citizens from hunters for fugitive slaves - forest captains. Slaves were expensive and the hunt for them would bring more revenue than trade in diamonds. But with the help of capoeira fugitive slave could fight on an equal footing with the armed and mounted enemy, and even defeat him.
in February 1694, the colonial troops defeated Palmaris. Most of the citizens of the unrecognized Republic died with weapons in their hands, but some survived, returned to the slave barracks and continued to teach combat dances to all comers. Among who were not only slaves, but urban vagrants and unemployed - so capoeira has made the transition from the jungle to the streets. Not serious, at first glance, more a dance than a fight, this skill proved to be very effective. Capoeira is without a doubt allowed to move the knives or blades of razors, holding their toes, plundered all, before anyone had reached, did not pay taxes and even did not go to bed on time.

After the coup d'état of 1889 and the proclamation of Brazil as a Republic, capoeira was banned by article 402 of the Brazilian criminal code. The punishment was one year in prison for the occupation of capoeira and the expulsion from the country for its teachers. These measures were very effective - by the beginning of the twentieth century about capoeira knew only in Bahia, the most Negro province of the country. It was here that the center of the Republic of Palmaris used to be and this is where the revival of capoeira as a national sport began.
The ascent of capoeira associated with the person named Manualus Flight to Mashad. Perhaps, people was awkward each time be given such - so he became known as Bimba. Even his name was Three strokes - as much needed Bimbo to win. Having founded in 1932 the Regional center of physical culture, he achieved the transition of capoeira from the street to the gym. Official recognition from The national Confederation of sports came later - in 1937.

Modern capoeira is completely free from the rage of former slaves. There are sports, fitness capoeira, ethnic and dance. Fighters do not seek to hurt each other, but only demonstrate their agility and speed.