- Rildo Cordeiro
Rildo Cordeiro also known as "
Mestre Penteado" was born in October 24th, 1972 in the city ofFortaleza on the stateCeara . StartedCapoeira during the 80's withPaulao do Ceara , which at the time was part of the Senzala group. In 1987, he joined the group Cordao de Ouro under the direciton ofEspirro Mirim . In 1991 he became Contra-Mestre and then he moved toRio de Janeiro city called Barra do Pinai where he started his first school in 1994.In his youth he was a three time Capoeira champion and has fought five times in
Vale Tudo .Fact|date=October 2007 Penteado is also versed inJeet Kun Do ,Jujutsu .Two years later, he moved to Minas Gerais where he started a new school with the group Cordao de Ouro with the supervision of
Mestre Suassuna . From this school, he gets the opportunity to expand his school with some of his most advanced students to other parts of Brasil.Today he has schools on four locations in
Brazil :Belo Horizonte -Minas Gerais ,Teresina -Piaui , Santa Catarina andSanta Cruz Cabrália -Bahia . In 2001, he received his first level Mestre belt from Suassuna inSão Paulo in conjunction of three other Mestres: Irani, Sampaio and Xavier.Currently he teaches in Riverside,
California under the supervision ofSuassuna .References
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