A field guide to the vocabulary of capoeira — the kicks, the escapes, the flourishes and the throws that turn a circle of clapping hands into a conversation. Everything below is one jogo: a martial art disguised as a dance, an art disguised as play.
Capoeira is call-and-response: an attack invites an escape, an escape sets up the next attack. Chain the lexicon into sequences — start from the pre-built patterns, or compose your own and keep them.
Turn the lexicon into a practice. Spaced-repetition drills on names and shapes, name-the-move quizzes straight from the figures, and a reaction trainer that flashes an attack and asks you for the escape.
The roda runs on sound before it runs on movement. The berimbau calls the game — its toque sets the speed, the mood and the rules, and the pandeiro, atabaque and agogô answer underneath the clapping and the chorus.
A rhythm trainer that listens through your mic and scores your timing against each toque is being woven in here — the other half of the same conversation.
Select two moves to see them side-by-side.