THE IMPORTANCIA Of FLEXIBILITY IN CAPOEIRA PRACTITIONERS

Abstract

The present study it will approach flexibility in the capoeira practitioners, for if dealing with a Brazilian sport genuinamente born of a freedom shout of the slaves afro-Brazilians, where it practises it of the capoeira if it has become each time more popular in Brazil and if spread by the o entire world with a on art-fight the sport and quality of life, and, taking important projections with the care with the leisure and prevention of illnesses, thus benefiting á health. The great paper of this work is to supply subsidies to that they practise and they work with capoeira, to know and to work flexibility. The objective of this is to show as the capoeira together with allonge exercises, intervenes with the maintenance and improvement of the flexibility of who practises them. So that this study happens had been surveyed lumbar flexibilities through teste de sentar e alcançar with practicing and not practicing children of capoeira with ages between 9 and 11 years, being nine practitioners of capoeira and nine not practicing of capoeira, totalizing eighteen pupils, subdividing itself in five boys and four girls for each group of not practicing practitioner and.