Ginga Exercises
- Ginga forward and back
- Ginga with a quarter turn when you step back in base
- Touch the ground in the middle of the ginga
- Hop back and forth from leg to leg
- Take an extra side-skip to the side during the ginga
- Be expressive and creative with your torso and arms
- Fake entradas to kicks, then go back to the ginga
- Ginga baixa (low ginga)
- Ginga w/rolé alto or caracol to practice moving around another
person
- With a partner, ginga and move around each other, adding lots of variation
and movement to make your ginga less predictable
- Put a bunch of capoeiristas in a small space and try to move
around each other without colliding, using the ginga and other creative steps
- Make sure every move you do can flows seamlessly in and out of
the ginga
