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Join the Movement: Keeping Youth Active for Life
Axé Boom Boom is not only an enterprise, it’s a social enterprise because we see the issue in the society of increased obesity and reduce physical activity amongst children and young people. Therefore, we’re here to tackle this social issue. Our social enterprise is based on the principle that all youth and their families, regardless of…
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Discover the Roda: Capoeira Game Explained
Come and join us this Sunday for a great Capoeira class and a Roda at the end at DanceBase. We start at 12noon until 1:30pm, book your space here. But what is the Roda? It’s a circle of people who stand and watch a game of Capoeira being played inside the circle. Today, we’d like…
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How to Stay Active for Life: 7 Tips for Adults Who Dislike Exercise
How to like exercising? Let’s address the issue of overcoming aversion to exercise to maintain an active lifestyle despite disliking exercise. If you’re seeking solutions to stay healthy and fit and wanting to transform negative feelings towards exercise this post is for you. It offers effective, tips and practical solutions for maintaining an active adult…
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Maximising Learning and Training Results with Quality Sleep for Young Athletes
Sleep plays a key role in an athlete’s recovery process. During sleep, muscles and the spine have a chance to fully recover after an intensive workout. Proper sleep also affects general well-being and concentration, which is extremely important for achieving good sports and learning results. Sleep is not only a time to rest after a…
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Join the Movement: Encouraging Active and Healthy Living for Children and Families
It was so great to start the classes this week after the summer. Welcome back to returning students and welcome to the new students. We’ve prepared a lot of great classes for you this term and look forward to see all our students developing their Capoeira at the classes. The classes are the engine for…
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Supporting Your Child’s Success in Capoeira: 7 Essential Tips for Parents
The Capoeira term is starting next week, hooray! And we know that this activity is a super way for children and young people to stay active for life, develop respect and discipline, and grow self-confidence. Hence, in this blog post we want to give parents a chance to get to know what they can do…
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5 Easy Snack Ideas for Kids: Encouraging Healthy Eating Habits
One of the reasons why we started Axé Boom Boom was to encourage children to understand and apply the knowledge on exercises and good nutrition and the benefit that these give them. There were many motivators to do it and was what we say in one primary school, see below picture. Here you have children’s…
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Capoeira Classes: Summer Break is Almost Over, Sign Up Now!
We’re all having a well deserved summer break however can’t wait to restart our Capoeira classes. No need to wait for long as we’re back at the end of August with classes at North Merchiston Club, then in September we restart Breakfast club classes at James Gillespie’s Primary School and we have a brand new…
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Brazilian Samba Classes in Edinburgh: Join Us for Dance and Fun!
Everyone has something they love doing! At Axè Boom Boom we love to exercise and encourage everyone to be active for life! Kasia’s favourite way of exercising is dance, Brazilian Samba to be more precise. “Dance makes me happy, fit & at the same time I make incredible friends!” – Kasia There are so many…
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Empower Your Child with Capoeira: A Non-Competitive Alternative to Traditional Sports
Sometime ago Hillary Friedman, a sociologist at the University of Princeton, ran research to check why parents are signing their children up for competitive afterschool activities that are very time and energy consuming. It turned that parents didn’t necessary wanted the children to become the next champion in the given activity, they wanted them to…
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