Mestre Pastinha is one of two capoeiristas responsible for the modernization of capoeira, the other being Mestre Bimba. Pastinha is considered the father of the Angola form. Like Bimba, he hailed from Bahia in Brazil. EARLY LIFE Born Vicente Ferreira Pastinha in April 1889, he began studying capoeira in 1897 with a man named Benedito. He was taken on as a student after Benedito noticed young Pastinha being beaten […]

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