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 Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 9:37 pm
Aight, I got a question for everyone. Why are basically all capoeira uniforms white? I've heard a few reasons. Like that its traditional, which doesn't exactly make sense to me. If capoeira was created in quilombos, why would they have worn whites? That wouldn't seem sensible. Another reason I've heard is that if you're playing capoeira, you aren't supposed to get knocked over. But it happens all the time in capoeira, so it wouldn't mean anything. Talk to me, people.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:13 am
Not all Capoeira schools wear white. But the idea of a white uniform was introduced by Mestre Bimba. He wanted his students, during presentations, to appear "clean, tidy and proper". So in Regional and Contemporanea, it became a tradition to wear fully white uniforms, save for the group's logo.
Also, in Regional and Contemporanea, it became tradition to not wear any foot wear inside the studio. The reason for this is because one day, someone came into Mestre Bimba's school with muddy shoes, and, without thought or consideration, tracked dirt and mud all throughout his school. So he made a rule, from then on, to take off your shoes before entering his school. It became a tradition, from then on, in most Capoeira Regional and Capoeira Contemporanea schools, to go bare foot. The only time you could wear shoes was in a street roda.
However, in Angola, it's a totally different story. In Angola, uniforms are traditionally a yellow t-shirt and black pants. The reason for this was because the colours yellow and black represented the uniform colours of Mestre Pastinha's favourite football team (football as in soccer). Also, for an unknown reason, it became tradition to always wear shoes in Angola.
One other tradition separates the styles: In Regional and Contemporanea, if you have earned a corda, you always wear it to class! However, in Angola, there is no corda system at all, let alone, any visual ranking system. This is so that new students or visitors cannot tell who the leader of the school is, and who is more senior than others. It adds to the malandragem and malicia.
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 12:01 pm
Mestre Pastinha is now, officially, the man.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:21 pm
AxeFalador N However, in Angola, it's a totally different story. In Angola, uniforms are traditionally a yellow t-shirt and black pants. The reason for this was because the colours yellow and black represented the uniform colours of Mestre Pastinha's favourite football team (football as in soccer). Also, for an unknown reason, it became tradition to always wear shoes in Angola. It's more to prevent injury than anything. A broken toe can put you out of comission, and that inturrupts your training. Still, I have seen videos of Angola Mestres playing without shoes. Quote: However, in Angola, there is no corda system at all, let alone, any visual ranking system. This is so that new students or visitors cannot tell who the leader of the school is, and who is more senior than others. It adds to the malandragem and malicia. With my Mestre, he simply avoids the Corda system to discourage the "belt-factory" syndrom some teachers have encountered. He can tell pretty quickly what your level is just by watching. The whole "not knowing who's the leader" makes no sense since in most situations I've seen, it is posted who the teacher is. As well, at least with my class, Mestres/instructors wear all white, whereas everyone else wears white pants and a yellow shirt.
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 9:02 pm
The way my Mestre explained it, was that your goal was to never fall. If someone knocks you down, you tumble out of it using only your hands and feet. So the better you are, the less often you will land on your butt, so your uniform would stay cleaner.
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Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 10:17 pm
In my capoeira club we wear white for like ging for the next cord or goin to brazil and we can wear any other color to regular classes but i dont understand the falling down part capoeira can be confusing untill you get the hang of it
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Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:34 am
Castellan Seamus Stewart So in Regional and Contemporanea, it became a tradition to wear fully white uniforms, save for the group's logo. That is not completely true. I learn at a Regional school, and we have only had one white uniform that I know of so far. Most of the time, or uniforms are blue or green, and every once and awhile we'll have a yellow shirt, but then it's only a tank-top for girls. So really, there isn't much of a dress code. Castellan Seamus Stewart It became a tradition, from then on, in most Capoeira Regional and Capoeira Contemporanea schools, to go bare foot. The only time you could wear shoes was in a street roda. Also not completely true. In my school, you can wear shoes to the main roda we hold every Friday, and if you ask, you can wear shoes during a lesson. Also, we wear shoes in the extension of the school in a Capoeira Club at a college, and we don't get told to take them off... Even the times Mestre came to check up on how we were doing, we were not told to take off our shoes. It seems to me that no set of rules for one school will be exactly the same in another. For example: Any of the formados or our mestre can be wearing the same uniform as someone else at any given time. I get the feeling that the only rule that stays the same is to show respect to higher cordels and complete a salutation to the mestre after each class/roda. Even cordel colors aren't the same in every school.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:33 pm
with the whole wearing white thing, i was told that because capoeira used to (and still does) get played on dirt ground, that you show your skill by still having clean white clothes and no dirt smudges on the seat of your pants, knees etc. at the end of the day.
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