Welcome Tea This Semester!

Ola camaras,

Muito obrigada for attending our recent Welcome Tea on Thursday!

To the new members, we hope you enjoyed yourselves and are pumped up to begin our trainings! Starting next week, we are going to begin our regular classes, with newer songs, sequences and so on. If you have any questions at all, please ask away! I hope the capoeira bug has already spread. (:


As for the seniors, welcome back! It is wonderful to see everyone again, and hopefully this welcome tea had you energised for more jogo bonito and great times ahead this semester! Keep training to be better and always put as much positive energy as you can into the grupo and jogo. Don't stop the axe!

For those who did not get to attend, you are most welcomed to join us for classes next week. Check out our training times on the top right-hand corner of this blog, or email us at capoeira.nus@gmail.com for more enquiries.

See you next week, and keep checking the blog for updates!

Cheers,
Rosinha

Happy New Year!

Xin Nian Kuai Le, Gong Xi Fai Cai everyone!

It’s the Lunar New Year season and time for more bak kwas, love letters and pineapple tarts! But go easy on the treats cuz training resumes right after CNY! Morcego will definitely ensure that we shed off some calories from the cny goodies. More Shaun T fitness regime to look forward to!

Come this Thursday there will be a welcome tea for all newcomers. Details are as follows:

Venue: MPSH4

Time: 7pm

Attire: tshirt and trackpants. we train barefoot

We will also be having a Chinese New Year celebration after the training so do join us for the lou hei and MORE cny goodies.

Here’s a song Mercego was sharing with us last week. Those who went for the Christmas monthly roda would have heard of this song. Enjoy the song! It’s addictive =)

Title: Ijexa

Ijexa e a danca do negro
Ijexa e a danca do negro (coro)

e o negro e, e nago
e o negro e, e nago (coro)

e vai,
vai vai vai cair (coro)
beleza beleza, 
vai vai vai cair (coro)
isso e capoeira,

Quando o meu mestre passar
PASSAR
Batam palma ascenando para o ar
PARA O AR /PARA O AR
Mais nao se esqueça do que ele falou
FALOU
Toque pandeiro, berimbau, toque agogo
Falou
TOQUE PANDEIRO, BERIMBAU, TOQUE AGOGO

meu povo que beleza
e a danca capoeira com certeza 
meu povo que beleza
e a danca capoeira com certeza

Rosa

Grupo Senzala Penang Workshop again!

Hey all,

Professor Parabolica from my Grupo Senzala, will be returning to Penang to conduct another workshop in February!

The confirmed details are:
Date: 4th & 5th February 2012 (Sat & Sun)
Time: 10am-1pm for both days
Venue: Let's Dance Studio (Penang, Malaysia)
Fees: RM75 (30.78SGD)

The Facebook Event page is here.

Those interested, please let me know by January 30th (Mon)! We could also travel down together to Penang again.

- Rosinha

Ano Novo!

Hey all!

Have you been training hard the past holiday?

Most of us were busy traveling, working or returning home (probably devouring all the homecooked food he or she can before returning), but at the back of our minds, I am sure the berimbau was still playing and there hiding in your room, you managed to sneak some gingas and other movimentos with the mirror reflection.

Now that the holidays have ended, it's time to get serious again and train even more! We will post up our Welcome Tea details soon. For now, our trainings are back to normal.

A new year, new semester, & a new set of challenges and exciting adventures waiting to happen!

Have a great year, camaras!

Axe,
NUS Capoeira Group

It's December holidays!

What a great way to end the exams and semester and start the December holidays with a 5-day workshop! Mestre Luizinho came down from Australia and imparted some knowledge to us during the workshop.

Highlights of the workshop included a visit to Bantus Capoeira. Sequences were taught, we learned some acrobatic moves, and did maculele as well as a music session to know more about the different instruments of capoeira. After our 5-day workshop, many of us are pumped and just yearning for more capoeira! So look out for the holiday training details on the right side of the blog!

Having been with us for 3 months and being our most active exchange student, we decided to bring Yulia around for some durian session and gave her a farewell roda too. All the best Yulia and continue to learn Capoeira wherever you are! Thanks for the Russian souvenirs.

To all our beginners, it’s been a great semester having all of you with us. Good luck to the exchange students who are going back or have already gone back! Hope NUS Capoeira has been a great family and capoeira is a passion that you want to pursue in life! Continue to stay hungry for more capoeira!

PS: Christmas roda will be on 18 December, Sunday, at Helix Bridge. Details to be confirmed.

AXE Capoeira! 

Rosa (Angeline)

Boa Sorte!

Hey guys,

Hope you're not stressed out from your FYPs, final papers, and of course, preparations for the dreaded exams! We know how it can be especially after a long semester like this! It will be over soon - think of the upcoming workshop to look forward to once you're done!

In light of the exam period, a couple of us made a video to wish all of you the best (Read the description of the video on youtube)! Just to remind you to take it lightly.

Smiling yet? You'll do fine, don't worry! (:

Axeeeee and see you soon, camaras!

Rosinha

Mugging period. But not forgetting Capoeira.

Notes..library..sleepless nights..what do all these have in common? Haha.. It’s exam time! Thanks for turning up on Thursday for the last official training of the semester. Hope everyone enjoyed the 9 kicks that Morcego taught. Quick recap:

• Meia lua de frente (mei-ya-lua-de-french)
• Armada (ar-ma-da)
• Quexada (kay-sha-da)
•  Martelo (mar-tel-lo)
•  Bencao (ben-sao)
•  Compasso (com-pa-so)
• Chapa (sha-pa)
• Chapa de costa (sha-pa-de-cos-ta)
•  Gancho (ganch)

Need help recalling any of the moves? Youtube is your bestfriend.

In the meantime, if you’re craving for some capoeira, you can always search for some vids online or visit central library level 5. You’ll find some of the seniors there. To find out how much you’ve improve over the past 12 weeks, tune it to our NUScapoeira YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/NUScapoeira).

As for the end-November Capoeira Encounter, you guys can pay me the full $120 (early bird price for those who registered with KY) anytime from now till the workshop itself. I will usually be in the library 6 floor/school. Just drop me an SMS!  

In the meantime, study hard and good luck for the exams! See everyONE next semester.

PS: may have ‘secret’ training from now till exams. Check the blog for updates or we’ll sms u!

*FIGHTING*

Rosa (Angeline)