Forget football players, we were all really impressed by the shear strength of the school's dancers. Capoeira, an art similar in form to break dancing, requires that dancers have tremendous upper body strength and all-around agility. The dance or martial art was originally practiced in Brazil by West African slaves, but was outlawed in 1890 by the Brazilian government, two years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, because it was seen as deviant behavior. The art form, however, was preserved through an underground network until it was officially recognized as sport by the Brazilian government in 1937. Since then, capoeira has spread throughout Brazil and around the world.