Solta o Jogo - 2023
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Judges & Guests
Mestre Ousado
Mestre Ousado - Lunda Brasil Capoeira - is a Buluarte of UK's Capoeira community and a well-known Master with over 50yrs in Capoeira. M Ousado has a lot of experience on being a competitor as well as being part of competitions such as Wolrd Capoeira Tournament.
Mestre Chitaozinho
Mestre Chitãozinho - Negaça Capoeira - is a writer and a philosopher with 8 published books. He is also the Founder and Mentor of Cultural Center Brincar Capoeira which runs a project offering weekly Education, Capoeira and Food to Youn People in Brazil. He is a respected and well-known Master in the community.
Mestre Julio Sanhaço
Mestre Julio Sanhaço - Senzala Capoeira - is an experienced Master based in London and student of Mestre Peixinho. Mestre Sanhaço lead Capoeira classes in London for over 19yrs and is a respected and well-known Master in the community.
Mastre Fantasma
Mastre Fantasma graduated with Senzala as a professor and recognised as a mestre in Capoeira Angola. First saw capoeira and became interested in 1986 - still active at 59 years old.
Mestre Macumba
Mestre Macumba lives in the Netherlands 🇳🇱. Founding President of the Capoeira Reversao group
Mestre Poncianinho
Born and raised in Guaratinguetá, Brasil, Mestre Poncianinho started capoeira in a family of capoeira masters, in 2000 he moved to the UK to perform in capoeira shows and start his School.
Mestre Poncianinho will be leading the Bateria with his talented students on both days of our competition.
ContraMestre Ratinho
Practising Capoeira for 23yrs, teaching for 17yrs, CM Ratinho sees himself as an Artist and an Educator. His expertise are on crafting Capoeira Material and Kids Classes.
Monitor Macaco
Monitor Macaco has been training capoeira for +16 years, starting his journey in Gran Canaria with Mestre Jo Capoeira. After his passing in 2010 Macaco trained with various other people maintaining his original capoeira contemporanea style and graduating as Monitor in 2019. By 2020 he started his regular classes in Manchester and has been continuing his Master's legacy.
ContraMestre Bombril
ContraMestre Bombril - Muzenza Capoeira - is an experienced Professional and well known in the community and will be one of the Judges during our weekend of competition in Kingston Upon Thames/London on 4th & 5th of November
Dates & Venue
Venue
Kingston University Town House (KT1 2EE) - View map
Dates
Saturday, 04 November 2023
Sunday, 05 November 2023
Structure of the competition
- It is a Collective Competition, meaning capoeira groups/schools willing to participate must make teams of 3 (trios)
- The competition will be judged by a panel of Mestres from the wider Capoeira Community in the UK and Europe
- Competition will be divided by categories: Kids; Adults; Absolute (Graduados(as) to Professores(as))
- The break down of each categories and its subcategories is in provided below
- Roda size is 4 meters of diameter
- Panel of 8 Mestres & Mestras will be judging the competition
- Each category/subcategory will have 8 teams competing
- Round 1 & round 2 all teams will compete
- Semi-finals only 4 teams will compete
- Final only 2 teams will compete
- Kids & adults categories & subcategories will compete for 2.5 minutes (two and a half) on every round of competition
- Absolute Category participants will compete for 3 minutes on every round of competition
PS - in the Beginners & Intermediate category the teams (made by 3 people) at least 1 MUST BE A BEGINNER
As long as the 3 members of the team are within the titles described, the team can be made up as the participants wish. Example: 3 Graduadas; 1 Professor + 1 Instrutor + 1 Graduada, etc.
Rules
The style game used during the competition will be exclusively Sao Bento Grande de Angola in a cadenced rhythm. The Name of the event demonstrates what we will be incentivising all competitors - Soltar o Jogo (release the game). A game that flows well and prioritises a clean game of Capoeira, without the use of violence, force or any attitude/behaviour that jeopardises the Joy of the event or the safety of competitors.
Three judges will be seating in the roda, one on each part of the roda. 1 referee will be in the middle of the roda making sure competitors are following the rules.
If a competitor breaks any rules, the game will be stopped by the referee, the team will be warned.
If the team breaks the rule a second time, the game will be stopped by the referee and the team will lose 5 points straight away and the team notified for not repeating the mistake.
If the rule is broken a third time team will be disqualified.
Competition Registration
The deadline for registration is 1st November 2023.
Registration fee is £40 / €45
Early bird fee of £30 / €35 (if registered before 30 September)
Fees are per team member
Register for the competition
Spaces remaining
- Kids Beginners/Intermediates
- 5 Team spaces remaining
- Kids Advanced
- 4 Team spaces remaining
- Adults Beginners/Intermediates
- 3 Team spaces remaining
- Adults Advanced
- 5 Team spaces remaining
- Teachers
- 3 Team spaces remaining
