For a pre-Olympic workout, we decided to visit Grupo Axé Capoeira Arizona at 1650 North Scottsdale Road in Tempe. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art with strong roots in Africa. As the only martial ...

All new capoeira students start in basics classes, which focus on technique and building and refining basic skills. Advanced students often continue to take basic classes to work on the foundation of ...

Capoeira, for the uninitiated, is a unique Brazilian martial art. With acrobatics. And dance. And music. And quite a bit of fun. This reporter, Tad Mast, snuck into one of the classes for a day.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a sunny, wood-floored studio space above the shops in Tacoma’s antique row lie the practitioners of a centuries-old cultural ...

Kids’ capoeira classes are taught by Instrutor Corrente, and cover basic capoeira techniques and music, including traditional instruments and songs in Portuguese. We use games and exercises that work ...