CORDEL SYSTEM

Green: First Graduation. It means the baptism of the trainee.

Green Yellow: The trainee starts to feel how important is to improve its technics.

Yellow: The trainee is ready to learn other technics.

Yellow Blue: The trainee starts to show the results of the training. The training becomes harder and stronger than it was before.

Blue: The trainee is graduated and needs to act as an example to be followed by the beginners.

Red: Developing in the capoeira world to get knowledge to become a teacher.

White Green: The capoeira player becomes a capoeira teacher. Preparing itself to be a master, the teacher has to learn how to be a leader.

White Yellow: Its time to get the Topazio philosophy. The main goal is learning loyalty, knowledge and honesty with the Master.

White Blue: The Contra Mestre gets peace and prepare himself/herself to be a Master.

White Red: The Master has to be loyal and fair. He/She has to work to develop capoeira, so he/she has to decide the best way to do that, always with honesty, impartiality and wisdom.

White Black: Grand Master