Empowering Women in Austin Through Capoeira

Rolha Capoeira

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The Daily Texan on how Capoeira helps female students, alumni find self-empowerment:

UT alumna Quentishia Guy was introduced to capoeira when she was studying abroad in Rio de Janeiro. Most of the members in her local training center, Capoeira Evoluçao, are male. But even though she was one of the few girls in her class, her instructor convinced her to stay in 2013 despite the added challenge.

“I tried it for about a week, and there were lots of things that I couldn’t do,” Guy said. “The day I thought it was going to be my last, one of the instructors challenged me and said, ‘If you were a baby and you were walking and falling, did you keep crawling for the rest of your life or did you keep walking?’ So I just kept on going throughout the years.”

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