The science of the art of capoeira

What would YOU like to see on the New Capoeira Science?

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Posted Sun, 02/28/2010 - 15:00 by cientista

This is your chance to give direction to the capoeira content of this site, or some general thoughts or feedback. Capoeira Science can only grow with your help.... Let's hear it!

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Great job, you should have Facebook, Twitter or MySpace page

by rolfalcon - 03/31/2010 - 17:42

Hi

Great job with the Folha Seca tutorial. I've been doing capoeira for 10 years now and though I can do backflips and other capoeira aerials, I never got to understand the folha seca move til now.

I saw your site a few years back, but you had not updated for awhile. I almost forgot about this site til I was searched in Youtube and saw you made recent uploads and went back to your site to see you made pretty good changes to it

You should have a social site page like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace page to give news that you have updated your site with new stuff. Rodamagzine.com always post articles and new stuff on their Facebook/MySpace/Twitter almost everyday, which is making themselves more popular website for capoeistras to go to these days. Those social sites are becoming more marketable these days

Keep up the good work. You need to market yourself and get more people to see your site. I remember a years ago a guy name Chimp made an awesome site, doing tutorials on capoeira moves, but moved on to do stunt work for movies/video games/etc. Glad that you came along to do the stuff now

Axe
Rolando Lero

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Chimps Capoeira moves

by cientista - 03/31/2010 - 19:52

haha yes old timer I remember chimp too! while he wasn't the inspiration, actually bilang was my inspiration, i learnt a lot, chimps capoeira moves really opened my eyes to things that I had never imagined. aaaahhh they got it so easy these days!! remember what it was like the first time u saw raiz!? magical. i was like wtf that is beautiful. and i still cant do it. bugger.

well, u should suggest away cos u've been around this internet capoeira thing for as long as I have.

meantime.. Twitter is definitely coming. my next phone will be an I-phone, sometime in the next month. I saw Roda magazine the other day, I really like it, I have similar plans.

Thanks for your coming along!
Axe
Cientisa

I know its a pain in the ass but please

by Narvan - 03/28/2010 - 05:26

Please put more videos like the folhra seca up. that one was amazing i absolutely loved it. Also i think it would be great if you put stuff for beginners like some floreiu combos some kicks like meia lua etc. i know their in the games you have posted but some people wont know one if they see one. also if you can break some games or moves in games down. i know its a real pain to do all this but you have a great site which would be even great if opened to a wider capoeira audience.

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Not pain but a pleasure!

by cientista - 03/31/2010 - 12:17

Hi Narvan, haha! You comment made me laugh! It's not a pain! Its bloody hard work thats all but its what Im here for. I have a big back log of stuff to be made into tutorials. It's just the time in doing all this which means that Capoeria Science is not already brimming with new video.

I got a lot of contract work on right now for other people. But thats going to clear up soon and you'll be seeing new stuff coming through in the next couple of weeks.

I particularly like your idea of breaking games down, its something that has always been talked about and if you think it would widen up the audience to more beginners, well that is exactly what I want to do!

Keep the suggestions coming mate. Glad u liked it so far.
Take care and Axe!
Cientista

hi

by Ronaldo - 03/14/2010 - 00:02

Hi Cientista,

I am just stopping by to hi.

Great site and keep posting videos on youtube!

If I could make a suggestion, I would say, post lots of games (what an obvious suggestion, hehe) and people singing in random days!

Tks,
Ronaldo

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re: lots of capeoira games

by cientista - 03/16/2010 - 20:46

HI Ronaldo, thanks for stopping by. Ok lots of capoeira games coming up, I have a SERIOUS back-log of very interesting and diverse games to go up. Things are getting sorted bit by bit and games is definitely high on the list of content ;-)

Where are you these days btw?
C

Ho Cientista! That is great,

by Ronaldo - 03/18/2010 - 15:54

Ho Cientista!

That is great, man!

Looking forward for to watch these games. It is excellent to learn!

I havent been around, you are right! I will be back in the end of this month, and then we do also real life games!

abs.
Ronaldo.

Different styles of game

by Modelo - 03/07/2010 - 20:05

Hey Cientista and all

How about some info on the different styles of capoeira explained and with a demonstration video of a roda: regional,miudinho, angola, contemporary... you could even go into different groups styles although that might be a bit much.
I reckon that a good example of each of the styles might be interesting and specially for beginners it might be very useful to help them decide what style they would like to try.

Good work so far mate!

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re: Different styles of game

by cientista - 03/07/2010 - 23:10

Good idea! I like it. Yes this would be very nice for beginners, and for everyone as the games would be good to watch anyhow. This goes on the to-do list. Thanks :-)

I'm working all next week full-tilt on a couple of big contracts... but the week after that you guys will be seeing some changes on the site. In the meantime chat away.
C

content

by FarofaCDOAtenas - 03/02/2010 - 20:31

I would like to see a web based semi-interactive capoeira related(capoeira,maculele,samba de roda,afro,...) song database, with a simple non graphical ui just to have easy access with an alphabetical order. I would like to see the lyrics of the songs in portuguese with a simple explanation of the meaning of each song if possible, but not a translation at all( if you are a capoeirista you have to learn brasilian portuguese :P ). I would also like to have a link after the lyrics and the explanation were I could hear the song if it exists as a track and if there is somewere on the net in a good format and also other kind of information about the song like who wrote it, who sang it over the years, who and when he/she recorded it etc.

Now let me explain what I mean by saying semi-interactive. I mean that every member should have the ability to contribute by having the ability to enter lyrics of songs and other info in the database but this information will not be visible until quality control has been done by the webmaster or someone responsible and reliable for the job.

Also an other good idea would be for this site you got here ( or better yet web application :P ) to have a section with simple brasilian portuguese lessons.

Thats all for now.
Congratulations for this web application and greeting from Greece.

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re: content

by cientista - 03/04/2010 - 02:27

Firstly Farofa I would like to say welcome and thanks for that outstanding suggestion.

As you can see from the existant navigation, a songs database is indeed planned. I like the idea of it being semi-interactive/ user generated so I might take you up on that. There are so many beautiful songs out there and what more of a chance do we have of hearing all of them than this idea of yours!? The non-graphical element too.. I'm beginning to gravitate towards that myself - due to time constraints I didn't include pictures with the most recent draft of moves videos I put up and I'm beginning to think that the lists actually look better, more accessible in text form than with thumbnails (everyone - please feel free to comment on this). There's no reason I can't specify the fields you suggested, author, famous singers, recording date etc. and set them as non-compulsory as it might be hard or impossible in many cases to get all of that information. Lastly a link to it being played on the internet, no problem, especially if it's on any kind of public sharing site like YouTube, I should be able to make it as simple as entering a url and it can be watched right here alongside the lyrics and everything else.

You've got a very good handle on what's going on here. If you feel that you want to spec something out, go ahead, it will be gratefully received. I'll PM you my email address, even though PM is not yet a feature ;-) haha!

Oh yes re: the Portugues lessons, I'll speak to my friend who has just started up her own small business giving lessons. See what ideas she has...

Thanks again! Look forward to chatting more :-)
Cientista

Content wish

by Muay Capoeira - 02/28/2010 - 15:19

If it is possible i think guides on "how to do..." in the genre of acrobatics is really good films, especially scince i think many guys have a problem with that part. (right now im just guessing bcaz i havent tried yet, but still...:P)

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re: acrobatic how-to guides

by cientista - 03/04/2010 - 02:33

Hi Oscar! Guides on how to do acrobatics you say?! Video guides perchance......!!?? capoeira move video tutorials... you've come to the right place

coming right up my friend, coming right up ;-D

Grey Screen

by Caitlin - 03/07/2010 - 17:16

Anyone notice how the screen is grey when you try to see the videos? Maybe its just my computer or something...

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re: Grey Screen

by cientista - 03/07/2010 - 23:15

Hi Caitlin,

Sorry to hear that you can't see the videos. What browser are you using, Firefox or IE or an other? Also do you have flash installed? as those videos are flash. Get it here

www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer

abracos, C