Search Results for: Gerard Taylor

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Capoeira 100 An Illustrated Guide to the Essential Movements and Techniques Written by Gerard Taylor, Photographed by Anders Kjaergaard Trade Paperback Price: $27.95 Capoeira 100 is an illustrated guide to 100 essential techniques used in the art of capoeira. Each movement is accompanied by a series of color photographs that show how it is done, as well as helpful pointers and tips on how to apply the technique in the game of capoeira. The...

Capoeira Conditioning How to Build Strength, Agility, and Cardiovascular Fitness Using Capoeira Movements Written by Gerard Taylor Trade Paperback Price: $15.95 The popularity of capoeira continues to rise as more people discover how useful—and fun—it can be for increasing agility and flexibility, as well as strength and endurance. Capoeira Conditioning is an illustrated guide to whole-body training based on this increasingly popular Brazilian martial art. Designed for all ages and all levels...

Capoeira The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace Written by Gerard Taylor Trade Paperback Price: $24.95 The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century. Focusing on the people and...

Capoeira The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace, Volume Two Written by Gerard Taylor Trade Paperback Price: $24.95 Capoeira evolved as a Brazilian martial art developed initially by that country’s African slaves. Marked by deft, deceptive movements played on the ground or completely inverted, the form started gaining worldwide popularity in the early 20th century, when this second volume of Gerard Taylor’s wide-ranging history begins. The book opens with...