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Harlow club
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The Beginning
The Harlow branch of the Group Senzala
has been in existence since 1989. In this year Master Gato arrived in Great
Britain to study for a year at Newcastle upon Tyne University.
An English capoerist, James Mackessy then invited Master Gato to participate in
a capoeira demostration at a festival in Harlow.
It was great, Master Gato played capoeira with all the students and it was
decided virtually on the spot that the group in Harlow would join the Group
Senzala and follow the teachings of Master Gato.
We subsequently had a few beers, and from then on Master Gato began teaching a
new group of students and friends.
We would alternate our training between Harlow and Newcastle at weekends,
except Saturday nights which were spent in the pub and bars having fun.And out
of these famous weekends grew the Group Senzala of Great Britain.
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The Training
Begins.
The training sessions used to happen in public parks and
sometimes leisure centers. Curious passer-by would watch and wonder about the
strange throwing movements called the Cintura. Then they would also wonder at
the kicks, sweeps and headbutts that this peculiar group of people would
perform. Was it a fight or a game? they would ask, as each pair in this strange
fight/game would follow the rhythms of a primitive musical instrument called
the Berimbau. Once in a while an intrigued onlooker would turn into a new
student, and slowly the group began to grow.
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The Club
Today
The Harlow club today is run by
Professor Sangue Bom, (Mr Christopher To), a graduate student of Master Gato.
with the help of Carousel, ( Mr Llloyd Howell),
He is at present the highest graded
English Capoeira player and is very well respected by the masters and senior
students of capoeira in the U.K and Brazil,
The Harlow club trains 3 days a week,(
times and venues listed on the site.)
Prof Sangue Bom and Carousel also
teach on workshops and seminars across the U.K and Europe, and are activily
involved in running other Capoeira and martial arts clubs around the
country.
We are a small but friendly club and
encourage visitors to come along and watch, join in or learn from the
begininng.
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