Mestre Pastinha

Pastinha thinking

Pastinha master descends of Spanish father and bahian mother, was baptized in 1889 with the name of Vicente Joaquin Ferreira Pastinha, in the city of Salvador-Ba. The African counts itself that the principle of its life in the capoeiragem wheel happened when had 8 years, being to its master Benedict, what when seeing it to spanking of a older boy, decided to teach mandingas, negaças, blows, keepers and malices to it of Angola. The result soon came to appear, Pastinha never more rejection importunado for nobody.

Pastinha master served in the Navy of War of Brazil, where he remained for a period of 8 years Mestre Pastinha of everything made one little, worked as mason, painter, delivered periodicals, took account of gambling house; however, what more she liked to make age to teach " to the great art " Pastinha knew the capoeira, wise person as was important to continue that culture, she advised that she was necessary to have calm in " when more good pro capoerista " the calmer game, and that the capoeira " it is the father and mother of all the fights of Brazil. Wise person very well the existing beddings and secrets in the capoeiragem, sang, played the instruments and taught as a true master must make. Pastinha was in the capoeira wheels an authentic master, one bamba in the fight.

Leaving the Navy in 1910, it initiates its phase of capoeira Prof.,seu first pupil was Raymond Aberé, this if it became a capoeirista eminent, known in all Bahia according Pastinha Master, its first academy was located in the Plaza of the Cruise of Are Francisco, in the street of the way it place of fetichism. Pastinha said: " The capoeira has much coisas. First part; the capoeira has its dictionary; second part: it has its dictionary; third part: it has its dictionary and fourth part; it has its dictionary ". Taught that when somebody was to speak on the capoeira it only said what wise person, " does not go to say that the capoeira is what it is not, nor goes to count what it did not see nobody speech, then, does not go to count what it cannot count. He is not everybody that goes to open the mouth and to say I conheco the capoeira, the capoeira is isso.Nem all mental ones, nor all citizens can open the mouth to sing what she is capoeira not. "

Pastinha master was a humour person upper-class, relaxed, sufficiently receptive, rich in knowledge, its to know exceeded the capoeira wheels. She was a person of the ideal world, companionable friend, father and brother of them disciple.Lived intensely its long dedicated years to the capoeira of Angola, classified itself in the history of the maladragem, the malice, as ace. He kept in its academy of Angola, the originalidade of the efficiency of the fight at any moment it are lost in the academy of Pastinha. It categoricamente contributed with its talent and devotion to the capoeira so that the bahian and Brazilian society perceived the capoeiragem as a invincible fight-art, warlike, that he is beyond them we pauper preconceptions that have in the society.

Vicente Pastinha, was filmed,photographed, interviewing, recorded record and left a book, the capoeira never more will be able to forget this ace, the guard of the capoeira d'Angola. He was back in house 19, in the plaza of the Pelourinho, that functioned its academy, the Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola established in 1941.Thousands of people they had been in the academy, they were made an impression with the songs, with the sound of berimbaus, pandeiros and agogôs and mainly, with the games that rolled there. Finally, a reform in the house of two stories one was made, had said the master that it did not have with what being worried, after finished the workmanships, it would come back to there, its home, its academy. Never more if it heard the voice of Pastinha inside of the house of two stories one, the people more did not attend a wonderful wheel of capoeira of Angola in that old house of two stories. O Pastinha Master did not come back, died in the blackout of one declining room in the quarter Pelourinho in Salvador.


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