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mestre pastinha
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Mestre Pastinha (born Vicente Ferreira Pastinha April 5, 1889, Salvador, Brazil - November 13, 1981) was a mestre (a master practitioner) of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. The son of José Señor Pastinha and Eugênia Maria de Carvalho, he was exposed to Capoeira at the age of 8 by an African named Benedito. The story goes that an older and stronger boy from Pastinha's neighborhood would often bully and beat him up. One day Benedito saw the aggression that Pastinha suffered, then told him to stop by his house as he was going to teach him few things. In his next encounter with that boy, Pastinha defeated him so quickly that the older boy became his admirer. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
