The son of Andre da Silva, a well-known capoeira practitioner and pro MMA fighter, da Silva (7-1) has always had combat sports in his blood. But he never really viewed it as a viable career path.

Brazilian star MMA fighter Adriano Moraes boasts of topnotch BJJ skills, which he said he was able to develop aided by his background in judo and capoeira. 'Mikinho' spoke about it in an interview ...

With millions of followers worldwide, capoeira is a blend of martial arts, acrobatics and dance choreography. The cultures of the enslaved Africans and the indigenous Brazilians contributed to the ...

For Bengalureans who are on the lookout to learn something new – a new artform, a new sport, a new fitness routine, a new ...

they began to send people back to the plantations to spread a message of rebellion and to teach the workers capoeira. Of course slaves weren’t allowed to practise martial arts, but they were ...