6. It’s a party.
Capoeira is the only martial art that requires live music and practitioners learn traditional instruments such as the berimbau. Sure you can do Zumba classes and dance to the music. Capoeira instruments are elementary and primitive in design. Just the thing to get the blood flowing as you kick and sway with the rhythm of the music. The feints, kicks and attacks one learns in capoeira are not just fierce, they are as beautiful, fluid, and mesmerizing to watch as any modern dance. Think high kicks from ballet, flips from gymnastics and the strength of martial arts. Now picture it all together accompanied by a sensual beat. That’s capoeira.
