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Abatizado (literally "baptism" inPortuguese, and borrowed from thereligious tradition) is normally an annual event for acapoeira group in a region or country. The practice originates fromcapoeira regional, but has been widely used bycapoeira contemporânea groups.[1]
Incapoeira regional, the tradition of thebatizado is simply the first time a new student playscapoeira to the sound of theberimbau. In thebatizado, the new student will play with a more advanced student, who takes care of the beginner, and helps them to develop theircapoeira game. Thebatizado welcomes new students into the school and strengthens community bonds.
Mestre Bimba, a founder of moderncapoeira, recognized the central importance of relationships in people's lives, and he worked hard to nurture these connections, with the aim to help people develop into happy, whole individuals. Incapoeira contemporânea,batizados have developed in different directions with their own traditions, and while this is just as valid, it is so far from Bimba's creation that the only connection is in the name and not in its rituals.
Incapoeira contemporânea,batizados are large events and are very important for the group organizing them. It is the point in the year where the new members will be baptized officially into the group and receive their first cords and where the other members, depending on their progress, will receive a new one. A typicalbatizado will take several days and consist of workshops, thebatizado itself and atroca de cordas. Often many groups from more than one region will attend abatizado for other groups. This allows for development of the game by contact with other players, teachers and styles.
Normally, themestre of the group must be present during the proceedings, but historically this is not required.
In many schools, students are baptized by the floor, that is, they play against higher level capoeiristas and are subsequently taken down by arasteira. This is meant to signify a continual process of humility and improvement in the game. This ritual of giving arasteira to the beginner is of modern creation, and is not a part of the originalbatizado ceremony that was created by Bimba.
Troca de cordas translates literally as the "changing of the cords". The cords signify the level of acapoeirista. During thetroca de cordas, somecapoeiristas will receive a newcorda before or after a game played against amestre (master) in which they have to show their advancement and earn the right to wear the newcorda. The color schemes for the levels vary from group to group.
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