BEST VIDEO EVER!!!!!!

Thanks Luis Claudio Silva from We All Japan for coming in on Saturday and Sunday (his birthday and birthday party day) and shooting hours of footage on his camera. Then editing all those hours of footage in his free-time and putting together this amazing montage of unforgettable memories for all of us at Bantus Capoeira Japan!

We All Love You Luis!

We All Japan

Takashi and Luis from We All Japan put together this video digest of our 3rd batizado, October 17th, 2010.

Huge respect and Bantus Capoeira Axé to We All Japan. Make sure you follow them on Twitter, Like them on Facebook and watch all their YouTube videos.

Enjoy!

We All Japan

Batizado and Troca de Cordas Video

Thanks to the advances in online video sharing and continuous improvements on YouTube we are proud to present, for the first time, the entire batizado video!!!

Shot on tripod with Professor Rafael’s HDD Camcorder, the video is an audience’s point of view of the batizado. Some parts of the batizado are missing from the video.

We will be publishing video from other cameras soon, and will have a professionally produced digest of the batizado from We All Japan shortly.

I can’t wait to see that!

Video 1/4 (Opening Roda, Caçapa’s Graduation, Introduction of Guests, and Start of Kids Batizado)

Video 2/4 (Kids Batizado)

Video 3/4 (Adults Batizado)

Video 4/4 (Troca de Cordas and Closing Roda)

A complete list of all photos taken during the 3º Festival Capoeira do Grupo Bantus Capoeira Japão – Wednesday 13th-Sunday 17th October, 2010 will be published on this blog next!

Stay tuned!

“Anxiety, nervousness, and stress” are three good words to describe the feeling waiting for the visa applications for our guests to be approved.

As of October 6th, Professor Claudinho and Mestre Pintor have been granted entry into Japan (both for their third visit), and we are only waiting for Professor Rafael to be granted his third visa for Japan also.

UPDATE

Professor Rafael’s application has been approved!

Confirmed guests: Mestre Pintor (Bantus Capoeira Brasil), Professor Claudinho (Bantus Capoeira Singapore), and Professor Rafael (Bantus Capoeira Malaysia).

Fala Caçapa,
então…prepare afine o berimbau, prepare o pandeiro e o atabaque e chame os alunos para jogarmos muita Capoeira em Tokyo!!
O visto ja esta comigo e ja estou me preparando para viajar no sabado. Me mande as cordenadas para o onibus.
Um grande abraço e treine sempre mutia Capoeira Bantus, Mestre Pintor.

More news coming soon…

Don’t miss a minute of the festival!

Bonus Video

On Saturday October 2nd we started hand-stamping the front of our batizado t-shirts. The brain child of Cafuné and heartfelt expressions of creativity from all our members, this year’s Bantus Capoeira Japan batizado t-shirts are all 100% unique creations, Made In Japan!

Thanks to Cafuné, Cotonete, Espantalho, Gavião, Caboclo d’Água, Bolinha, Masaki, Junko, Maki, Kaori, Nadia, Atsushi, Dabu-chan, Branca De Neve, Oto-chan & family, Risa-chan & family, Yudai-kun & family, Kuu-kun & family, Takashi-kun & family.

Photos from Facebook

Gallery One
Gallery Two

On behalf of all the GBCJ members, I would like to wish Bantus Capoeira Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand all the best of luck for their upcoming 2009 batizados.

Australia will celebrating their 7th batizado after a year off in 2008. Malaysia celebrates their 6th, Singapore makes it their 4th, and our newest Bantus brothers and sisters in Thailand are nervously looking forward to their first batizado!

We hope we can invite you all to our 3rd batizado in Tokyo, 2010!

Here are the dates and relevant links.

Dates have been updated. (25/10)

Australia: October 26th – November 1st

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Malaysia: November 3rd – 8th

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Singapore: November 11th – 15th

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Thailand: November 19th – 22nd

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みなさん、がんばってください！

What is the batizado?

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