Capoeira Angola
Area: LONDON
Capoeira angola london
Simon Atkinson
The Spacee Centre, 31 falkirk street,
London,
N1
Phone: 0207 249 0697
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Website: http://www.capoeira-angola.co.uk/
TEACHER FANTASMA
Simon Atkinson, born in 1964 in Southend –on- sea, Essex, started practising fighting arts in 1983 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at a 20 week self-defence and fitness class. Since then Simon became involved in practising fighting arts. At a weekend training camp in Northumberland in 1989 Simon met Master Gato, from the group Senzala, Rio-de-Janeiro and his first Capoeira class. Simon soon became a capoeira student under the guidance of Master Gato. During the following years Gato visited the UK once a year for a month at a time and passed on training methods and generally motivated and assessed his students growth. The classes in his absence were informal and took place in a multi-storey car park in Southend, four times a week, summer and winter. The group then had one berimbau, one pandeiro and a huge amount of enthusiasm.
In 1993 Simon visited Brazil for the first time to see and experience capoeira. During his stay he attended regular classes with Master Gato, three weekend meetings and visited other classes in Rio, with the assistance of Gato. Amongst the classes were those of Marrom, a highly regarded student of the group senzala who had started to research and follow the capoeira angola traditions.
Simon has always lived in the UK and has visited Brazil six times including the first trip back in ’93. In 1997 Simon decided to follow the capoeira angola style and has since become part of Marrom capoeira and alunos group through familiarity rather then affiliation. Simon’s teachings have been regular in the evening classes in shoreditch, and have also included regular classes in Haggerston girl’s school, Eton Collage, Hackney Summer University and now Project gems classes for children.
In support of the regular students and classes Simon has promoted many master classes, workshops and annual international meetings.
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