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With the IV festival of capoeira coming up in Marbella, Spain, we thought it was time to gen up on this ancient sport, starting with the lingo. Hang around a capoeira crew for long and you will soon start picking up on some pretty funky terminology that you'll have to get to grips with before you can consider yourself an expert. Capoeira is originally from Brazil so you'll need to brush up on your Portuguese and get your head (as well as your tongue) around words such as ginga, golpe berimbau and bamba. Here are the essential terms that we'll be using to bluff our way through the capoeira festival in Marbella next week:

We are buzzing about the upcoming capoeira festival in Marbella, Spain on April 6,7,8. Here's what happened the last time we hooked up with these guys