Mestre Bimba
Мастер Бимба (Bimba) - Мануэль Душ Рейш Машаду - родился 23 ноября 1899 года в Сальвадоре, столице штата Баия.
Свое прозвище "Бимба" получил при рождении в результате спора между матерью и повивальной бабкой о том, кто родится - мальчик ("бимбой" именуется в Баие мужской половой орган у мальчиков) или девочка.
Капоэйрой начал заниматься в возрасте 12-ти лет у мастера капоэйры Ангола Бентиньу, командира корабля, ходившего в каботажные рейсы, в бухте Всех Святых.
Мастер Бимба открыл первую официальную академию капоэйры в 1932 году. 7 июля 1937 года Академия мастера была официально признана правительством Бразилии в лице Управления образования и общественного содействия. Бимба - первый мастер, систематизировавший тренировки по капоэйре. Он разработал 8 секвенсов (последовательностей, уроков), и, в результате систематизации, капоэйру Бимбы стало возможным постичь посредством систематических занятий. Роль таких занятий, с точки зрения Мастера, является основополагающей.
Мастер Бимба как прекрасный преподаватель и опытный боец, привлекал многих студентов, поддерживающих его в стремлении сделать из капоэйры серьезную дисциплину.
На основе известных ему принципов самообороны и богатого опыта в капоэйре, Бимба разработал собственный стиль, который назвал Региональный (местный) стиль Баии "Capoeira Regional". Кроме восьми последовательностей обогатил капоэйру движениями из батуке (batuque) - жесткого боя-танца, которому он обучился у своего отца, известного батукейру Луиза Кандиду Машаду. А система Синтура дешпризада (Cintura Desprezada) - система защиты от бросков, обучающая капоэйриста приземляться всегда на ноги, делающая невозможным вывести из строя мастера Режионала. Также ввел в обязательные занятия обучение игре одного игрока против восьми бойцов одновременно.
 Появление нового стиля вызвало поток критики со стороны других капоэйристов. В качестве доказательства своей правоты ему приходилось вызывать на поединки многих известных мастеров капоэйры. Кульминацией этой серии битв стал его поединок с известным мастером Зей, которого он нокаутировал в 4-м раунде.
Эти сражения послужили ярким доказательством мощи и большой эффективности его стиля "Лута Режионал".
В результате Бимба получил еще одно прозвище - "Бимба Три Удара". Ему было достаточно трех ударов (Бенсо, Палма и Галопанте) для того, чтобы вывести противника из строя.
Для пропаганды своего видения капоэйры мастер Бимба и его ученики провели немало впечатляющих показательных выступлений. Эти выступления продолжались с момента открытия его школы, начиная с 1927 года и до его смерти. Возможно, именно такой широкий подход позволил капоэйре выйти за рамки простого уличного искусства и дал ей новый толчок на пути возрождения. Бимбе удалось так же записать два музыкальных альбома.
В своем Центре Физической Культуры "Режионал" Бимба преподавал искусство капоэйры двух видов. Первый, собственно, метод ведения боя, где "все идет в ход" и цель - отправить соперника в нокаут. Второй - спортивная версия, в которой повреждение, нанесенное оппоненту, означает дисквалификацию. Полицейскии Баии, большая часть которых являлись учениками Бимбы, изучали обе версии.
В течение своей жизни мастер Бимба всегда отдавал предпочтение боевым аспектам капоэйры, считая их способом проверки истинного мастерства капоэйриста: "Традиция традицией, но только истинный мастер может с одинаковой легкостью драться на улице и петь песни в Роде".
В 1970 году по приглашению Освилду де Соуза, одного из своих учеников, он переехал в столицу штата Гойа (Гойанию). Очарованный обещаниями лучшей жизни в Гойании и возможностью добиться признания капоэйры, которого он не дождался от официальных лиц в Баии, Бимба все же решился на этот шаг. Однако мечтам мастера Бимбы не суждено было осуществиться и он умер 4 февраля 1974 года вдали от горячо любивших его учеников. Отдавая дань памяти Мастера, все школы капоэйры в Бразилии закрылись на семь дней, скорбя о его смерти.
Наследие мастера Бимбы и его неповторимый стиль Режиональ сейчас известны не только в Бразилии. Тысячи школ по всему миру практикуют подход Бимбы, который отличается оригинальной системой капоэйристской техники, а также неукротимостью бойцовского духа. Капоэйра Режиональ и по сей день живет в сердцах и движениях его последователей в различных уголках мира.
Заповеди Мастера Бимбы: правила поведения, правила капоэйриста, заповеди Лута Режионал.
Mestre Nenel Bimba
Manoel Nascimento Machado (Mestre Nenel), was born on September 26, 1960 in the neighbourhood of Nordeste de Amaralina, city of Salvador da Bahia. The son of Manoel dos Reis Machado (Mestre Bimba) - creator of Capoeira Regional - and Berenice da Conceição Nascimento, he was raised by Alice Maria da Cruz (known as Mãe Alice). As a young child, Nenel spent many of his days in his father’s capoeira school, the Centro de Cultural Física Regional, located in the Laranjeiras Antigas neighbourhood. It was here that he took his first steps in capoeira, graduating in 1967 with many of his brothers. Mestre Bimba had begun to use capoeira in a way that differed dramatically from his predecessors: he saw it as an educational practice that could help children become respected adults with a place in society. This idea was revolutionary at a time when capoeira was equated with a poor, marginalized population of predominately black men. Mestre Bimba’s example was followed by many others who grasped its educational potential, and capoeira enjoyed a surge of popularity as it was brought into the larger society. In 1972, Mestre Bimba and his family moved to the city of Goiânia in the state of Goiás. This move was to the great sorrow of many Bahians who had considered Mestre Bimba a national hero. Mestre Bimba died in Goiânia on Feburary 5, 1974. Although some of his former students continued teaching in Brazil and abroad, they had begun to follow their own capoeira paths, adapting and changing Mestre Bimba’s Capoeira Regional to suit their own needs. Mestre Bimba’s work was not taken on by anyone for a long time. Nenel, like many of his brothers and sisters, worked in many different occupations trying to make ends meet. Then, in 1975, he heard the call of capoeira. Despite many difficulties, Nenel moved to Brasília where he founded his first academy, the Associação de Capoeira Regional Mestre Bimba Filho. Nenel returned to Bahia in September of 1977 and began competing in capoeira championships, as well as playing street capoeira and performing in folkloric shows, even as he continued working various jobs. Then, in 1984, he was given the job of administering classes at Mestre Moise Sucuiba’s academy in the Vale das Pedrinhas neighbourhood. During those two years, his desire to found a new academy entirely committed to the preservation and promotion of his father’s work was born. His vision finally became reality when, on June 10, 1986, he founded the Filhos de Bimba Escola de Capoeira based in the Fitness Academy of Genivaldo Garcia, neighbourhood of Amaralina. In 1989, Nenel was invited to participate in an educational project at the School of Arts and Trades, where he transferred the Filhos de Bimba school. Many of Mestre Bimba’s old students began rallying around him, answering his invitation to work together to preserve Bimba’s Capoeira Regional. Mestre Nenel’s work began to take off as he gained recognition both in Brazil and abroad as a reference for Capoeira Regional. Mestre Nenel is a founding member and currently presiding over the Fundação Mestre Bimba, which was created on November 30, 1994. A skilled berimbau player, he offers music courses with the aim of preserving much of the rich musical inheritance of Capoeira Regional, an inheritance which was in the process of being lost. Through the creation of various social projects aimed and children and adolescents, such as the Projeto Capoerê, in which children from poor neighbourhoods are offered free capoeira classes, Mestre Nenel has continued the educational work begun by his father. Many of his current professors, now young men and women, were once students of the Projeto Capoerê. They continue Mestre Bimba’s teachings and the message of hope and dignity. Manoel Nascimento Machado (Mestre Nenel), was born on September 26, 1960 in the neighbourhood of Nordeste de Amaralina, city of Salvador da Bahia. The son of Manoel dos Reis Machado (Mestre Bimba) - creator of Capoeira Regional - and Berenice da Conceição Nascimento, he was raised by Alice Maria da Cruz (known as Mãe Alice). As a young child, Nenel spent many of his days in his father’s capoeira school, the Centro de Cultural Física Regional, located in the Laranjeiras Antigas neighbourhood. It was here that he took his first steps in capoeira, graduating in 1967 with many of his brothers. Mestre Bimba had begun to use capoeira in a way that differed dramatically from his predecessors: he saw it as an educational practice that could help children become respected adults with a place in society. This idea was revolutionary at a time when capoeira was equated with a poor, marginalized population of predominately black men. Mestre Bimba’s example was followed by many others who grasped its educational potential, and capoeira enjoyed a surge of popularity as it was brought into the larger society. In 1972, Mestre Bimba and his family moved to the city of Goiânia in the state of Goiás. This move was to the great sorrow of many Bahians who had considered Mestre Bimba a national hero. Mestre Bimba died in Goiânia on Feburary 5, 1974. Although some of his former students continued teaching in Brazil and abroad, they had begun to follow their own capoeira paths, adapting and changing Mestre Bimba’s Capoeira Regional to suit their own needs. Mestre Bimba’s work was not taken on by anyone for a long time. Nenel, like many of his brothers and sisters, worked in many different occupations trying to make ends meet. Then, in 1975, he heard the call of capoeira. Despite many difficulties, Nenel moved to Brasília where he founded his first academy, the Associação de Capoeira Regional Mestre Bimba Filho. Nenel returned to Bahia in September of 1977 and began competing in capoeira championships, as well as playing street capoeira and performing in folkloric shows, even as he continued working various jobs. Then, in 1984, he was given the job of administering classes at Mestre Moise Sucuiba’s academy in the Vale das Pedrinhas neighbourhood. During those two years, his desire to found a new academy entirely committed to the preservation and promotion of his father’s work was born. His vision finally became reality when, on June 10, 1986, he founded the Filhos de Bimba Escola de Capoeira based in the Fitness Academy of Genivaldo Garcia, neighbourhood of Amaralina. In 1989, Nenel was invited to participate in an educational project at the School of Arts and Trades, where he transferred the Filhos de Bimba school. Many of Mestre Bimba’s old students began rallying around him, answering his invitation to work together to preserve Bimba’s Capoeira Regional. Mestre Nenel’s work began to take off as he gained recognition both in Brazil and abroad as a reference for Capoeira Regional. Mestre Nenel is a founding member and currently presiding over the Fundação Mestre Bimba, which was created on November 30, 1994. A skilled berimbau player, he offers music courses with the aim of preserving much of the rich musical inheritance of Capoeira Regional, an inheritance which was in the process of being lost. Through the creation of various social projects aimed and children and adolescents, such as the Projeto Capoerê, in which children from poor neighbourhoods are offered free capoeira classes, Mestre Nenel has continued the educational work begun by his father. Many of his current professors, now young men and women, were once students of the Projeto Capoerê. They continue Mestre Bimba’s teachings and the message of hope and dignity.
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