Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (April 5, 1889, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – November 13, 1981), known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial...

December 2011) , known as Mestre João Pequeno was capoeira Angola mestre and one of the principal students of mestre Pastinha. He began his carrier in...

contemporary capoeira Angola codified by Mestre Pastinha, based on an older one. Although mestre Pastinha strove to preserve the original art, he nevertheless...

He was a student of the "father of Angola", Mestre Pastinha, and has an academy in New York City. Mestre João Grande was born in the village of Itagi...

government viewed capoeira as a socially acceptable sport. In 1941, Mestre Pastinha later founded his school where he cultivated the traditional capoeira...

Grande Mestre João Pequeno Mestre Moraes Mestre Pastinha Mestre Sinhozinho Mestre Waldemar Mestre Zuma Mestre Leopoldina Mestre Curió Assunção 2005, p. 203...

was codified by mestre Bimba and mestre Pastinha, in regional and angola style. Despite their significant differences, both mestres introduced major...

capoeira to us were the negro slaves that were brought from Angola. — Mestre Pastinha From the 16th century, Portuguese colonists began capturing slaves...

training with Cobrinha Verde, Mestre Leon, and Mestre Waldemar. He was among the mestres, including Mestre Pastinha, mestre João Grande, and Camafeu de...

Mestre Curió is a capoeira Angola mestre from Salvador, Brazil, known for his deceptive fighting style. He was a disciple of mestre Pastinha. Curió has...

the age of eight, he started to train at the academy of Mestre Pastinha. By that time Pastinha was blind with and no longer taught classes, so academy...

musical preferences but also by the berimbau's dual role as a weapon. Mestre Pastinha formalized the inclusion of instruments into the capoeira Angola orchestra...

leg, because this could make them vulnerable to a banda takedown. Pastinha, Mestre (1988). Capoeira Angola. Fundação Cultural do Estado da Bahia. Assunção...

This mestre is one of the few capoeira angola mestres who carry on the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola (CECA) school created by Mestre Pastinha. He...

other mestres, he handed their Centro Nacional de Capoeira de Origem Angola in Liberdade to Mestre Pastinha. Then ABR introduced Mestre Pastinha. Because...

of Mestre Pastinha. Mestre Moraes’ Rio de Janeiro school was the first school to teach Capoeira Angola outside of Bahia. It was founded by Mestre Moraes...

contact. Low game is a major characteristic of capoeira Angola style. Mestre Pastinha wanted his students to improve their practice of the principal kicks...

Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781785336355. Mestre Pastinha Capoeira Angola Varela 2017, pp. 31. Mestre Waldemar Mestre Waldemar Capoeira palmares No atabaque...

for the same techniques, or the same name for different techniques. Mestre Pastinha considered the core techniques of the traditional capoeira to be the...

contemporary capoeira, (the other being Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, also known as Mestre Pastinha), the father of modern capoeira angola. Machado was a coal...

opponent is very close. According to mestre Bimba, "its application requires a lot of cunning." According to mestre Pastinha, cabeçada is a malicious blow that...

capoeira game, which it is now famous for and widely associated with. Mestre Pastinha recalls that the capoeiristas during the prohibition used to attach...

was not a student of Mestre Pastinha, Canjiquinha was Contra Mestre in his academy. Upon leaving, he founded, already as a mestre, his own academy. He...

out other capoeiristas: playing in the rodas at Mestre Pastinha's academy and in the rodas of Mestres Valdemar and Traira on Pero Vaz Street, Camisa Roxa...

1930s, mestre Bimba introduced the queixada, with the back leg kicking, to regional capoeira, likely from Asian martial arts. Mestre Pastinha referred...

Mansa, Mestre João Grande, Mestre João Pequeno, Mestre Moraes, Mestre Pastinha, Mestre Pé de Chumbo. Since the end of the 1980s, the political participation...

against front push kick can be practiced in various ways. According to mestre Pastinha, one possible defense from a front plate is that a capoeirista blocks...

the first half of the 20th century, Salvador-born masters Mestre Bimba and Mestre Pastinha founded capoeira schools and helped standardize and popularize...

historian Cheikh Anta Diop; dancers Arthur Mitchell and Alvin Ailey; Mestre Pastinha, a Capoeira troupe from Bahia; Duke Ellington; Marion Williams; singers...

costas usually aims at the opponent's face or groin area. According to mestre Pastinha, chapa de costas is a "treacherous strike when used against someone...