About Gathering Of Tribes Borneo

Versátil regularly teaches in the Los Angeles and Orange County areas of Southern California. He also travels often to teach throughout the USA, Mexico, Croatia, Lebanon, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico and Thailand.

Versátil is known for his detailed yet motivating teaching style and knowledge of the seemingly disparate aspects of dance and combat. Versátil also holds a Masters in Counseling Psychology and has developed a suite of Capoeira, Martial Arts, and Movement based therapies called The Warrior Class. Within these modalities, Versátil works with youth in addiction, young adults with developmental differences, couples and individual clients, as well as Transformational Justice, Community Accountability and Repair within Capoeira, as well as other movement and cultural communities. This work in community and individual well being informs Versátil’s work in Capoeira, centering around the tenet that Capoeira itself Is a method for Community Well Being, and should be regarded thusly, with mindfulness and professionalism.

Being a member of Capoeira Batuque, Versátil and his students are participating in a tradition of Capoeira first brought to Southern California by Mestre Amen Santo, from the teaching of the legendary Mestre Waldemar da Paixão. This tradition and reaches back to the legendary Besouro Mangangá.

Nikola extensively travels around the world for more knowledge. He trained with teachers like mestre Acordeon, mestre Russo, mestre Camaleao, mestre Itapuã Beiramar, mestre Pantera, mestre Xuxo, mestre Zé Antonio, mestre Umoi to name a few…

He is a member of several Croatian artist organizations – DIVERT, UPUH (Croatian Dancers Association), and HDFD (Croatian Film Artists Association). Stuntman by profession, with over 20 years of experience in the film industry, he also worked as an associate professor at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb. 

Beside Capoeira Nikola is a martial arts aficionado and is a master degree holder (3rd DAN) in Taekwondo. He co-founded the first Croatian Martial Arts Tricks demo team – “X-OUT.  He has been involved in contemporary dance and physical theater, circus and acrobatics for a long time. As a teacher, performer and participant. Together with Katjuša he created Fluid balance – creative acrobatics.

Later she started working closer with mestre Pontape and formed the tribe Balanço da Meia Lua in Ljubljana. She works with children, adults and persons with disabilities. She applies expressions of Capoeira in her performances and other projects. Beside Capoeira she was enrolled in 8 year contemporary dance school, later on with improvisation, physical and street theater. The street is where she started to produce her own shows by the age of 15.  In her 20’s she moved to Beijing for a year to be part of BIAS Circus acrobatic school.  She runs Fluid balance- creative acrobatics together with Nikola. She continues till this day the journey of exploration and connection of different disciplines, cultures, languages and expressions. Currently working on a CD Guerreiro with her author songs, composing them with Capoeira and other instruments.

She travelled Brazil and other countries where she trained/lived with several teachers: Mestre Salvador (CDO), mestre Umoi (União na Capoeira), Mestre Bamba (Associação de Bimba), Mestre Trovoada João Paulo (Nação), Mestre Pitbull (Jacobina Arte), Mestres Magrelo & China (Raça), mestre Versátil (Capoeira Batuque- USA), mestra Rosita & mestre Cigano (LGDM México).

Jimmy started training with Professora Cristiane, the only one Brazillian capoeira instructor at that moment in Taiwan. The more he get deep into capoeira the more he is attracted by it. In 2010, Jimmy participated in the event of Capoeira Mandinga in Shanghai and encountered with his mestre and good friend Mestre Marcelo Caveirinha, also known for being the developer of Eddy Gordo’s movements at Tekken Game, one of the early students of Mestre Suassuna and founder of the international Capoeira Mandinga group. Jimmy returned to Taipei and created Capoeira Mandinga Taiwan with some partners. Since 2021 Jimmy decided to embark on a new journey with partners by creating Formosa Capoeira.

Jimmy moved to Tokyo for more opportunities to learn capoeira since the end of 2019. For Jimmy, capoeira is a art form, a tool to make life better and also make people much closer. Capoeira opened a door for him to connect people in different countries and discovered all aspects capoeira gave to create motivation and passion for life.

Since then he has trained in the styles of Capoeira Regional, Angola and currently Contemporânea. The further he delved into Capoeira, the more his passion for Brazilian culture grew. This led him to take his first trip to Brazil as a sort of pilgrimage to experience and learn from the source. 

Aside from Capoeira, he has also been involved with other Brazilian performing art forms like the Samba dance and Samba Batucada enredo (percussion). 

Tempero is also a swimming instructor/coach by day and has worked with toddlers, youth and adults locally and overseas for over twenty years.

Driven by a deep passion for martial arts, his primary objective is to share the numerous benefits and values they offer with as many communities as possible. This dedication is evident in his active participation in various martial arts communities and events. Aiezad holds a significant role as one of the earliest pioneers in Malaysia’s Capoeira scene, contributing to the formation of several other Capoeira movements since the early 2000s.

For the past 15 years, he has been under the guidance of Mestre Eclilson de Jesus from Capoeira Aché Brasil schools, earning recognition as a senior teacher representative in Malaysia. Beyond Capoeira, Aiezad’s accomplishments include a black belt (2 DAN) in Taekwondo, a history as a former state athlete in sport Taekwondo, and serving as an Assistant Coach in the combative style of Silat.

Despite these achievements, Aiezad continues to walk the path of learning and mastery, always seeking to improve and deepen his martial arts expertise.

Upon returning to India he continued his practice with different groups and like minded capoeiristas by regularly traveling around the country seeking out any and every capoeira encontro.