Training focuses mainly on attack, dodging and counter-attack, giving high importance to precision and discipline.

Bimba also added various moves from other arts, notably the batuque, an old street fight game played by his father.

Capoeira Regional began to take form in the 1920s, when Mestre Bimba met his future student, José Cisnando Lima.

Advised by Cisnando, Bimba decided to call his style Luta Regional Baiana, as capoeira was still illegal at that time.

After 1964, when a student completed a course, a special celebration ceremony occurred, ending with the teacher tying a silk scarf around the capoeirista's neck.