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.

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 ...

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 ...

In the UCL study, dancers from London's Royal Ballet and experts in capoeira, a Brazilian martial arts form, were asked to watch short videos of either ballet or capoeira dancers performing brief ...