Contramestre Zumbi started the Seoul chapter of the Cordão de Ouro Capoeira group in 2010 and has taught, performed, or led workshops in Brazil, India, France, Guam, China, Taiwan, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Mexico, South Africa, the Cayman Islands, and many other countries over the last 23 years. Consequently, a cornucopia of audiovisual material from around the world is already on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Since those materials remain accessible to everyone, the Ellesse Korea Capoeira commercial — shot on Aug 25, 2016, broadcast on Korean television and cable channels, and posted to YouTube — is the only archive embedded here. It is Zumbi’s most watched Capoeira video.
The majority of videos online aren’t professionally shot or edited. This high quality snippet of him warming up some moves for that Ellesse commercial is the rare exception. He transformed the footage into a promotion for the original 2017 Capoeira Wellness Airbnb concept.
Zumbi has plans to compile a library of class video and collegial Capoeira games. Videos like this one and this one, where Zumbi (a “professor” at the time) and his friend play Capoeira at a park in Seoul, provide a glimpse of the more advanced moves and collegial play. Hopefully, we convey the joys of self expression in our interactions.
While interpersonal dialog might be a touch grandiloquent in our videos, you needn’t move like this. In fact, you should move according to your capacity to move and practice contentment.