User:Calangoaruanda

Calango is the Capoeira apelido of Jesito McLennan. Calango has studied many different martial arts since childhood. He began training Capoeira under Mestre Borracha over a decade ago, and has studied Capoeira in Australia, Germany, and Brazil. He is an enrolled nurse, and an experienced teacher of West African drumming, having studied with two West African Griots, traditional musical custodians from Guine, West Africa, Master Percussionist Mohammed Bangourake and his brother Sibo Bangoura. Calango has taught Capoeira in Newcastle and the Blue Mountains, and was awarded his Instructor Certificate (Corde Verde) in 2013 by Grande Mestre Boa Gente, the 'godfather' of Capoeira Aruanda, and his second Instructor cord (Corde Verde/Roxa) by Mestre Borracha in December 2016.