Mestre China
Name: Milton Raimundo de Jesus
Group: Associação Cultura de Capoeira Angola
Country: Spain (Europe)
City: Barcelona
Birthday: 1968-09-22
Day of death: 0000-00-00
Website: http://capoeirars.en.eresmas.net/
Image: and people always take up the obvious, always some part of your body, of your life, marks, so let’s say that what marked most was the acrobatics. I was not acknowledged as a capoeirista, though I linked everything to capoeira, I did it in the game.”. In march 1994, China went to Barcelona, where there was already a core group from the Senzala academy of Santos, though without a regular teacher. There he funded the Raizes de Senzala (Roots of Senzala) association . After a few years, he decided to dedicate himself to the study and the teaching of capoeira Angola, to which norms he still belongs today. “I met capoeira Angola there in master Sombra’s academy, at the time that the master set out to show the basic moves, to play videos too, so from that point I began to get involved, and he started lessons specific to capoeira Angola, that was fifteen years ago. I have been in Spain for eight years, and that gave me the opportunity to go to Bahia and know really capoeira de Angola, that of the baianos. That allowed me to meet that culture. So, initially it was in master Sombra’s Senzala academy, the way it was and still is today”. — China, may 19, 2002. “”ilton Raimundo de Jesus was born in the island of Itaparica (Bahia), on september 22, 1968. Still a child, he followed his parents to Santos (São Paulo). His first capoeira practice was in the street, unable that he was to pay for lessons. Later he registered in master Sombra’s Senzala academy, trained a lot, and developed so his natural abilities, that he got famous as China, the acrobat. “Because of a certain easiness that God bestows on us, a gift, I liked acrobatics
About Mestre China
In march 1994, Mestre China went to Barcelona, where there was already a core group from the Senzala academia de Santos, though without a regular teacher. There he funded the Raizes de Senzala (Roots of Senzala) association . After a few years, he decided to dedicate himself to the study and the teaching of capoeira Angola, to which norms he still belongs today.