The element or better, the component of play within Capoeira practice has been a crucial part to it’s development. Play as we call it, has always been an integral part of African cultures in most west and central African nations. Play has facilitated many of the learning process of bow hunting, spear throwing, physical development as in races and so on….
Playing, joking around and light teasing are ways Africans have used to straiten their bonds and learn to cope with the hardships of their realities, historically. The games Africans partake are many that resemble Capoeira, like Batuque, Broma (Colombia), Congo (Panama) and A’jia (Martinique). It’s in fun, that Africans would participate in these endeavors. In fun, away from their hardworking life’s