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Sambanale is a German Festival inspired by Brazilian Carnival. 

It is a great festival where we gather the cheerful and amazing components from Brazilian culture.

For all ages, family and tastes to have a good time and chill out.

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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) emphasizes getting an opponent to the ground in order to use ground fighting techniques and submission holds involving joint-locks and chokeholds. Once two fighters are on the ground, physical strength can be offset or enhanced by an experienced grappler who knows how to use mechanical advantage instead of brute strength.

BJJ equips you with the practical skills you need to prevent, control, defuse and resolve conflicts and defend yourself against physical treats and attacks. It also provides the perfect work out that quickly suits your body fitness. Not only is Jiu-Jitsu a proven self-defense system, but it also aids in weight loss, increased cardiovascular health, enhanced self-confidence, discipline and diet.

It is not solely a martial art, but it is also a sport; a method for promoting physical fitness and building character in young people; and, ultimately, a way (Do) of life.

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CAPOEIRA

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A Brazilian martial art , that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music.

It was developed in Brazil mainly by Africans, at the beginning in the 16th century.

It is known for quick and complex moves, using mainly power, speed, and leverage for a wide variety of kicks, spins, and highly mobile techniques.

Capoeira is a fast and versatile martial art which is historically focused on fighting out numbered or in technological disadvantage. The style emphasizes using the lower body to kick, sweep and take down and the upper body to assist those movements and occasionally attack as well. It features a series of complex positions and body postures which are meant to get chained in an uninterrupted flow, in order to strike, dodge and move without breaking motion, conferring the style with a characteristic unpredictability and versatility.

The ginga (literally: rocking back and forth; to swing) is the fundamental movement in capoeira, important both for attack and defense purposes. It has two main objectives. One is to keep the capoeirista in a state of constant motion, preventing him or her from being a still and easy target. The other, using also fakes and feints, is to mislead, fool, trick the opponent, leaving them open for an attack or a counter-attack.

The defense is based on the principle of non-resistance, meaning avoiding an attack using evasive moves instead of blocking it. 

Avoids are called esquivas, which depend on the direction of the attack and intention of the defender, and can be done standing or with a hand leaning on the floor. A block should only be made when the esquiva is completely non-viable. This fighting strategy allows quick and unpredictable counterattacks, the ability to focus on more than one adversary and to face empty-handed an armed adversary. 

A series of rolls and acrobatics (like the cartwheels called aú or the transitional position called negativa) allows the capoeirista to quickly overcome a takedown or a loss of balance, and to position themselves around the aggressor in order to lay up for an attack. It is this combination of attacks, defense and mobility which gives capoeira its perceived 'fluidity' and choreography-like style.

Playing capoeira is both a game and a method of practicing the application of capoeira movements in simulated combat. It can be played anywhere, but it's usually done in a roda. During the game most capoeira moves are used, but capoeiristas usually avoid using punches or elbow strikes. The game usually does not focus on knocking down or destroying the opponent, rather it emphasizes skill.

The Roda is a circle formed by capoeiristas and capoeira musical instruments, where every participant sings the typical songs and claps their hands following the music. 

Two capoeiristas enter the roda and play the game according to the style required by the musical instruments rhythm. The game finishes when one of the musicians holding a berimbau determine it, when one of the capoeiristas decide to leave or call the end of the game or when another capoeirista interrupts the game to start playing, either with one of the current players or with another capoeirista.

In a roda every cultural aspect of capoeira is present.

The batizado (Baptism) is a ceremonial roda where new students will get recognized as capoeiristas and earn their first graduation. Also more experienced students may go up in rank, depending on their skills and capoeira culture.

Students enter the roda against a high-ranked capoeirista (such as a teacher or Mestre) and normally the game ends with the student being taken down. In some cases the more experienced capoeirista can judge the takedown unnecessary. Following the batizado the new graduation, generally in the form of a cord, is given.

APELIDO - The new capoeira practitioners get or formalizes his or her apelido (nickname) when starting to practice Capoeira. *** This tradition was created back when capoeira practice was considered a crime. To avoid having problems with the law, capoeiristas would present themselves in the capoeira community only by their nicknames. So if a capoeirista was captured by the police, he would be unable to identify his fellow capoeiristas, even when tortured.

Apelidos can come from many different things. A physical characteristic (like being tall or big), a habit (like smiling or drinking too much), place of birth, a particular skill, an animal, or trivial things. This tradition is still very alive not only in capoeira but in many aspects of Brazilian culture.

A practitioner of the art is called a capoeirista.

On November 2014 capoeira was granted a special protected status as "intangible cultural heritage" by UNESCO.

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Nowadays is not only considered a martial art, but an active exporter of Brazilian culture all over the world. Since the 1970s, capoeira mestres began to emigrate and teach it in other countries. 

Capoeira is widely used as a tool in sports development (the use of sport to create positive social change) to promote psychosocial wellbeing in various youth projects around the world.

Capoeira provides everything you need to get fit to explore your body's acrobats and flexibility and to stay tuned with your mind, heart and soul through the music.

This is the only modality that provides such a complete and perfect mix which includes work out, martial art, stretching, self-defense and explore your musical abilities or you can just listen to it and enjoy!

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Professor Alex Nascimento was born in 1984 and has been practicing Capoeira over 20 years. He grew up in Salvador, Bahia - Brazil, the homeplace of Capoeira.

Alex is an expert in both Capoeira Regional and Capoeira Angola. In addition, he plays all the Capoeira Instruments as well.

With his great network and multi talented facets, he has been managing several groups of Capoeira in Brazil for many years and has a wide experience as a coach as he learned early in his youth with his parents: Ananias Bispo Laranjeira, a mason, singer and songwriter from Bahia and Miralva do Nascimento, a saleswoman.



His first experience with Capoeira was in 1996 back in his hometown Salvador, Bahia in São Gonçalo neighborhood where he lived and afterwards worked as a Capoeira coach until 1999 in the elementary school.

Alex Nascimento (aka Mestre Caranga) always had the dream to become a Capoeira teacher and support his parents as they struggled with financial difficulties.

- MESTRE CARANGA CRONOLOGY -

* 1999 - Joined the group of Capoeira Luanda of Mestre Eziquiel.
* 2001 - Started to teach Capoeira for children in the Alianca dos Cegos Academy. Through the supervision of his teacher at that time 'Mestre Jacarandá' and the monitoring of 'Formado Perú'.
About that time Mestre Caranga says that it was when his first contact with the "true Capoeira" began.
* 2002 - Started to teach Capoeira at the Alberto Valenca High School as part of the Unesco project. In the same year he joined the forum of the Capoeira at the Federal University in Bahia.
* 2003 - was a difficult stage in the life of Professor Caranga as he lost an important person in his life, his mother.
In 2003 Alex (Caranga) had the opportunity to study in one of the best schools, the Colegio Luiz Eduardo Magalhaes.
Between 2003 and 2004, he began to give Capoeira lessons again within the framework of the UN project and earned a certificate from the Bahian government on 18.12.2003 as he had worked as a coach of Oficina de Capoeira.
* 2005 - played Capoeira with the already deceased Mestre Mica and Mestre Macaco Negao in the historic center of Pelourinho on the Terreiro de Jesus as a teacher for foreigners. He also took part in Rodas de Capoeira in the Mercado Modelo with Mestre Gajé and then went to Itacaré.
* 2006 - Started teaching Capoeira Itacaré, Bahia. He taught Capoeira to tourists from different countries such as Italy, France, Denmark, Africa, Korea, USA, Argentina, Switzerland, Israel, Japan, China, Spain and many others. He then started performing in a Capoeira show group.
* 2007 - Moved to Germany to teach Capoeira. His first pupils were John (Panteira Luanda), a man who works with mosaic and his son Jonas (Trovao Luanda). Afterwards, Maximilian (Lampiao Luanda) took part and every month more people entered the group.
* 2009 - Started to teach Capoeira lessons at the youth center in Engter, but in the same year moved to the city of Osnabrück. There he taught at an Asian sports academy and then at the youth center in Eversburg.


He currently teaches Capoeira in Osnabrück and also supervises and monitor his other capoeira schools and is the CEO of the Osnabrueck Sportzentrum with many other modalities other than Capoeira.