Capoeira Angola workshop by Bigfoot

* Am currently away in KL, I would like to thank Mr Nazim of Furious Style gym for sharing this good piece of information.

Mr. "Bigfoot" @ Ahmad Ibrahim Shukri (picture above, without shirt), one of the early pioneers of Malaysian Capoeria Angola was in Kota Kinabalu for a week & gave a 1 day workshop.

What is Capoeira Angola?

Capoeira Angola refers to every capoeira that keeps the traditions held before the creation of the Regional style.

Existing in many parts of Brazil since colonial times, most notably in Rio de Janeiro, Salvador and Recife, it's impossible to tell where and when Capoeira Angola began taking its present form. The name "Angola" starts as early as the beginning of slavery in Brazil, when Africans, taken to Luanda to be shipped to Brazil, were called "black people from Angola" regardless of their nationality. In some places of Brazil people would call capoeira as playing Angola and, according to Mestre Noronha, the Centro de Capoeira Angola Conceição da Praia, created in Bahia, already used the name capoeira Angola illegally in the beginning of the 1920 decade.

The name Angola was finally immortalized by Mestre Pastinha at February 23, 1941, when he opened the Centro Esportivo de capoeira Angola (CECA). Pastinha was known as a great defender of the traditional Capoeira, much respected by recognized Capoeira masters. Soon many other masters would adopt the name Angola.

Capoeira Angola is the closest style to the way slaves used to fight or play Capoeira. Characterizes by being strategic, with sneaking movements executed standing or near the floor depending on the situation to face, it values the traditions of malícia, malandragem and unpredictability of the original Capoeira.

- source Wikipedia

"Bigfoot" was an early member of IIUM Capoeira, Malaysia's 1st group of Angoleiros.

He gave a short intro class and simple moves to the gym members of Furious Style Kickboxing & Kinabalu Fighters. While his stay here in KK was brief, the short intro class has no doubt created a small interest among the KK members around. In the future he might come again to KK to give more workshops and there might be an open workshop for more KK capoeira enthusiasts.

FightBah would like to thank Mr. Nazim for hosting this small workshop with Mr. Bigfoot & the picture for this post.