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Watching this video, you can almost feel the cool breeze, icey waves and sand between your toes…

We are waiting to welcome you to the beautiful Cornish countryside.

Boa Viagem

Canguru

With less than a month to go, preparations for JingaFest are going well and ticket sales are flying. If you’re coming, you are advised to buy your tickets in advance to avoid disappointment. Click the link below for ticket sales and join over 40 people who have already booked to come to Cornwall for some R & R.

PARTNERS TICKET OPTION

We have added a ‘non-capoeirista’ ticket option for partners of die-hard capos who don’t want to leave their loved ones behind on the bank holiday weekend. For just £15 per day (£60 for 4 days) your friend or partner can attend. This includes camping and all the yoga, samba and outdoor fitness workshops. If you decide to join in the capoeira workshops, just pay an extra £10 per day. This rate is only valid on advance ticket sales, prices will be more on the gate.

For ticket sales and info, click here: TICKETS

Gyllyngvase Beach in Falmouth nr JingaFest

If you have any questions, please contact me, I’m very friendly!

Tudo de bom meus camaradas, Canguru

Tel: 07870 167 974

e: info@jinga.org.uk

For a draft timetable on workshops, click here: JingaFest timetable

For a site map, click here. More about JingaFest, click here.

JingaFest timetable

JingaFest Summer Camp – June 1-5th, 2012, near Falmouth, Cornwall – so much more than a capoeira camp. Top class teachers, workshops and facilities. Tickets on sale now.

Tudo de bom, Canguru.

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Mestre Joaozinho da Figueira is a legend in his own right, not least for his weekly Friday night roda in West London (he hasn’t missed one for 6 years!) Testament to his good energy, fame and connectivity is the list of high-profile guests he has had in his roda. On this Friday night before Christmas 2012, there were two very special guests. This is one of my favourite capoeira clips because of Joaozinho (bermibau, singing) and the friendship, energy and top level capoeira from these two famous capoeiristas.

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The end of the roda…

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JingaFest Summer Camp 2012 is the UK’s premium capoeira retreat held in Cornwall over the Queen’s Diamond Jubillee double bank holiday weekend: Friday June 1^st – Tuesday June 5^th.

We have:

• 9 guest teachers confirmed so far
• over 30 workshops across 4 days
• lots of cool eco-friendly facilities
• online ticket sales – ON SALE NOW
• extra info about the venue, travel and what to bring (please let me know if i’ve forgotten anything)

If you are open-minded and share our capoeira philosophy, then come and join us for a capoeira holiday with lots more besides.

Mark yourself ‘busy’ for the Queen’s Jubillee weekend and sneak off for a big of R & R. See you there.

To navigate the JingaFest pages, follow the drop-down menu above, or the links below.

Tudo de bom, alegira saude e paz

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JingaFest (Summer Camp) 2012 is the UK’s premium capoeira retreat held in Cornwall over the Queen’s Diamond Jubillee double bank holiday weekend: Friday June 1st – Tuesday June 5th.

The 4-day festival will feature over 30 capoeira workshops across all styles from renowned UK masters (including Mestre Joaozinho & CM Claudio Campos) and other guest teachers, as well as workshops in yoga & samba.

The venue is the Chyan Cultural Centre (near Falmouth), an 11 acre nature reserve, woodland and organic garden, complete with its very own stream. There are two modern barns (with high-quality wooden floors) and several tented structures, such as tepees, marquees and yurts, which will house a shop, message therapy centre and tea/coffee room. The site also has natural toilets, wood-fired showers and hot tub.

We anticipate no more than 100 adults on site, plus some children. Tickets are sold in advance so that we can cater as well as possible for everyone. All you will need to bring is a tent, a toothbrush and a chilled attitude.

More info will be uploaded here soon. In the meantime, when people ask you what you’re doing on the Queen’s Jubillee weekend, tell them you’re going to JingaFest Summer Camp.

Tudo de bom – saude e paz Canguru

Now that Jennifer Lopez has been pictured (and filmed) on a beach in Montevideo, Uruguay, practicing capoeira, will capoeira teachers receive the same response from people eager to emulate the super-famous singer/actor? Somehow I doubt it, but I would love to be proved wrong.

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Of course this publicity (already featured in Hello! Magazine online) will raise the profile of our beloved (but very niche) art form. But when Madonna and Geri Halliwell publicised their hobbies, they were already, I think, experienced yoga students and were happy to shout about the benefits of their new hobby. In this case it seems that J-Lo was practicing the basics learnt in her first class (and doing an excellent job too, esp for a ’42-yr-old with twins’). So I doubt we will see people flocking to our classes.

Furthermore, the quality of capoeira practiced by the muscle-bound, topless chaps in this video (which has thankfully now been removed) is an ugly crime against all that is beautiful in our graceful & fluid art form. If a capoeira game is an interactive conversation, the teacher in this video was just shouting at himself (and poor J-Lo) as he displayed his muscle-bound physique – the sort you only get from working out in a gym, not from playing capoeira!

But, as I step down from my soap box, I extend warm thanks to J-Lo for this publicity (and to her lawyers for removing the video) She’s representing all the 40-plus yummy mummies and raising awareness for a past-time which I hold very dear to me heart.

Valeu J-Lo, Canguru