A Look at Taekwondo and How Competition Could Change Capoeira

Rolha Capoeira

2 minute read

The Body Sphere is a fascinating weekly program about “the ways we use our bodies to create and compete, nurture and abuse, display and conceal”, published by Australian broadcaster ABC. It recently featured an episode that split its time between taekwondo, one of two Olympic martial arts, and Brazil’s capoeira. While not directly contrasted in the episode, listeners will no doubt notice the juxtaposition of the two art forms as talk of capoeira’s rich cultural heritage…