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Three essential Capoeira questions you should ask yourself
1. ) Do I train my foundation?
If not, is there not a foundation around me in my group, in my training partners, in my teacher? Training your capoeira foundation is essential. When you build a house, you also first build the foundation, right? You cannot build on something that does not have a foundation.
So what I noticed in capoeiristas that are, let's say, my age, about forty, they have trained their foundation, or even maybe thirties. When you get a bit older, most people stop training capoeira or they don't like to train the basics anymore. This is really key to stay and remain at a certain level, or to even grow.
The foundation of the Kahpu Training Method it's called Ginga Flow, and this is a combination of basic capoeira but essential capoeira movements, Jogo de Corpo, or Body Play, and Fintas. Now I've created this Ginga Flow Training for every style of capoeira, every person that plays capoeira. This is essential to create because it gives you freedom, vision of the game, and a building block, a foundation to build upon.
2.) What are my personal preferences and needs?
For example, a personal preference nowadays is for me to play Capoeira games where there is a connection, there is contact between the other one and me, as opposed to separately moving and showing each other cool moves. My personal preference is to find people who also want to make this connection. If I cannot find it in a game, I will try to look for it. Also very important in this regard are your physical characteristics, like what fits your body. For example, my arms and legs are pretty long, therefore, some movements I can do easily, especially defensive moves or bending my legs while touching the floor flat with my hands. I can do that easily. But if you cannot do this, some moves and some defenses you should not do.
And a third aspect is: What type of body are you? Are you fast twitch? Do you have fast twitch muscles? Like, are you thin or are you a bit heavier? This also plays a big part in how you approach your Capoeira training and whether or not you should want to do certain moves, and is also influences how you play the Capoeira game tactically.
3.) What is my weakest and what is my greatest?
I think we all have natural talents for something, and we really get excited for certain parts of capoeira, and naturally we can do that really well. In my case, for example, I'm fast, I can kick sharp, I have sharp direct kicks, and I can really express my playfulness in capoeira. So, it's good to honor this and to use this in my game and have fun with this.
On the other hand, I also experience the musical side as one of my weakest points in Capoeira, even though being really rhythmic and musical. It's a part that I haven't trained as consistently as as opposed to the physical part, and now I'm really feeling the missing element of that. So, whenever I go to a capoeira event, or whenever I go to Jardas, I can play in the Bataria and I do my thing. Especially if you know someone would see me with less than 10 years of capoeira, he or she would think, "Oh no, he's okay-ish." But for me, I know I can train this more to fully embrace that part and to fully experience capoeira as a whole. And also to put my joy and my experiences in the music and in my voice. This is a part I'm training now.
It's important to know and to realize what your greatest is and what your weakest is. So you can grow with these both in your hands, and you look upon them like, "Yeah, you are there, and that's okay." And it doesn't mean that you have to fight with all your might your weakest things. No, you should enjoy improving and getting better step by step, while also enjoying your greatest things within Capoeira and your talents!
So, these are my questions to you. Give the answers here in the community, and let's talk about it.
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Three essential Capoeira questions you should ask yourself
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