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Design Festa vol25 Videos!

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Design Festa vol25 Videos!

Design Festa May 26th

Here they are, the highlight videos from the awesome Design Festa vol.25 capoeira shows at Tokyo Big Sight on May 26th and 27th, 2007.

Thanks to our special guests: Pomba (Cordão de Ouro - Tokyo), Amizade (Yamanashi), Toshio (Capoeira Nação - Saitama), Fabio (Nação Capoeira - Tokyo), Neguinho (Marana - Ibaraki).

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GBCJ report from Design Festa

Design Festa vol25 - Highlight Reel


Some highlights from the two Indoor Stage shows featuring members of Bantus Capoeira Japan, Cordão de Ouro, Capoeira Nação, Nação Capoeira, Marana.

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GBCJ Camp 2007 Report (Photos & mp3)

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Bantus Capoeira Camp 2007

What a huge transformation the 2007 camp was compared to our first capoeira camp back in 2005 when we had only a few capoeiristas.

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Bonus Video

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First Sunday of the Month Roda

I promised everyone I would upload the video from our roda on Sunday. Well here it is. This is not a highlights clip, this is the full recording of our roda at Go Sho. This is more like a training video for all our students to take a closer look at their ginga, their jogo, and pick what they need to work on and improve.

It’s hard to feel from watching this 320×256 video clip but this roda was really fun, full of axé, and everyone was giving lots of energy! There’s even a couple of short games of angola in the middle. By the way, first Tuesday of the Month Angola classes are in full swing with a great turn out this month.

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2006 Wrap-up

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2006 Wrap-up

2006 was an amazing year for Bantus Capoeira Japão! We were invited to perform at so many different events and were able to promote capoeira to thousands of people around Tokyo and even more in Japan and around the world through our TV, radio and Internet appearances. Student numbers increased by an incredible amount starting from April when we started classes at Event Hall Musashino in Kichijoji. But the highlight of the year for 7 of us was the first Bantus Japão Brazil trip, Festival Mundial, and Batizado in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

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2nd Anniversary and Bonenkai 2006

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Musashino FM Culture Festival in Kichijoji


On Sunday November 26th Bantus Capoeira performed at the first Musashino FM Culture Festival in Kichijoji.

Thanks to Cafune, Mico, Lanterna, Cotonete, Pipoca, Bambu, Guarana, and Ayako for helping out!

And a big thanks to Musashino FM for inviting us.

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2nd Anniversary and Bonenkai


Later that day we celebrated 2 years of blood, sweat, and tears at our 2nd Anniversary and Bonenkai (End-of-year) Party 2006. The event was a huge success, with around 25 Bantus students attending the event, as well as special guests and friends. A big thanks to our guests Fabio and Hiji from Nação Capoeira, and Frank.

A big Bantus Capoeira Axé to Ayako, Bambu, Ban-chan, Bo, Coruja, Cotonete, Fumi, Gleidson, Guarana, Kyoko, Lanterna, Mico, Mio, Pipoca, Ruike, Satoko, Seina, Shiori, Sorriso, Sorvete, Sung, Yoshiyuki, and Yumiko.

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Important Update 日本語

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on Sunday, 26th November 2006
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はーい！みなさん。長くかかりましたがやっと更新ができました！（日本語訳も完了！）10 月、11 月はBANTUSのプロモーションであちこち駆け回りとてつもなく忙しかったんです。

9月はブラジルから帰国して、「Mishop World Festival 」がありました。10 月には「三鷹スポーツフェスティバル」、「Nudist Beach」、と「Casty ネットTV生出演」。今月は「祖師谷アートフェスティバル」、「Bem Brasil 12 」、「B’day Beats」、「お初にじの会」、「むさしのＦＭカルチャーフェスティバル」そしてそして！忘れてはいけない「Bantus Capoeira Japao 2 周年記念バースデイパーティー＆忘年会2006 」とイベント尽くしです！さらにはなんと僕（Cacapa）はメトロポリスマガジンからインタビューを受け11 月10日号の雑誌に載ったり、podcast に出演してberimbauを弾いかせて頂きました♪

メディア関係の話といえば、7 月と8月に撮影に来てくれたシンガポールと日本のテレビクルーから、ＤＶＤが届きました。映像はもうブログに載せてあります。編集がどちらも素晴らしくとっても満足しています！シンガポールの皆様本当にありがとうございました！！

最後に、このブログは全体的に「お色直し」しました。皆さん気に入ってくれているとうれしいです！！

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Important Update

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日本語

Hey everyone, here’s the update I’ve been meaning to write for while. We’ve been super busy in October and November, and I’ve been running around like mad trying to promote Bantus as much as possible.

In September we got back from Brazil and then had the Mishop World Festival, events in October included the Mitaka Sports Festival, Nudist Beach (2), and the Casty live internet TV appearance. Our shows this month include the Soshigaya Art Festival, Bem Brasil 12, B’day Beats, the First Nijino Kai, and the Musashino FM Cultural Festival. And don’t forget our 2nd Anniversary and Bonenkai Party.
I was also lucky enough to appear in the Metropolis Magazine on November 10th, and play berimbau on their podcast.
Speaking of media appearances, we recently received in the post a DVD and a video cassette from our Singapore and Japanese TV crew shoots back in July and August, the clips will be on this blog shortly. The stories turned out really well, and we were so happy with the results!
Finally, this blog got a total make-over and is now running just the way I hoped.

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Metropolis Magazine Q&A + Metpod

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on Thursday, 9th November 2006
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The Metropolis Magazine

If you’re in Tokyo this week, make sure you get yourself a copy of the Metropolis Magazine, Japan’s No.1 English Magazine. Because when you turn to page five you’ll see Bantus Capoeira Japão’s very own instructor, Caçapa. The interview in the weekly feature “faces & places” q&a section was conducted via email with Connor Shepherd and the magazine’s editor. Of course due to space contraints the interview had to be cut somewhat but the full interview can be seen at the bottom of this post.

Click here to view a screen grab of the Metropolis website.

Click here to view a scan of the Metropolis interview.

The Metpod Episode #659


Caçapa on the Metpod

On Tuesday November 7th I did a live interview for a podcast to go along with the written interview in the Metropolis Magazine, issue #659, November 10th, 2006. The interview starts at 43min:25sec.

Thanks to Kamasami Kong, Suzy Newsy, and Jordon Cheung from the Metropolis Magazine “metpod” podcast.

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The New Bantus Capoeira Japan Blog!

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The new GBC Blog is here!

I hope you like it. I’ve been working on this thing night and day for the last few weeks, and even taught myself how to set up my own server and how to use wordpress. I’m not sure if capoeira instructors are supposed to know how to use computers, but this one does. I’ve also gotta say “Muito obrigado” to Tartaruga in Malaysia for setting up our server, and doing all the techie stuff in the first place. He ‘forced’ me into the blog world, and I haven’t looked back since.

So what’s new?

Well, when you first open the blog you’ll be amazed at how bright, colourful, and sexy everything looks. I’ve tried to make things easier to find, easier to use, and more fun to play around with. The pages themselves will be bursting with colour and content, the words and pictures are going to jump out from your screen everytime you logon to jp.bantus.org. Already it’s a huge improvement from our previous design.

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Festival Mundial Bantus Capoeira 2006 photos

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Festival Mundial Bantus Capoeira 2006

Originally uploaded by Bantus Capoeira Japan.


Well, I’ve finally uploaded the photos from Cafune’s digital camera onto our flickr site. You can check out the whole album here.

The festival delivered all that is promised and more! From August 21st to 27th it was non-stop capoeira 24 hours a day.

From the moment we stepped off the plane in Belo Horizonte to the final roda at Mestre Pintor’s holiday home in Casa Branca, we trained, played, learned, ate, slept, dreamt, and shopped capoeira!

The seven bantulinos from Tokyo were Caçapa, Cafune, Mico, Quati, Lanterna, Coruja, and Cotonete. Yoshiko, Noriko, and Hiroshi received their new nicknames at their batizado in Brazil!

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