I will present selected results of my doctoral research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. I conducted a videographic and phenomenological investigation of Bildung experiences of the processes of practicing in capoeira courses and playing in the capoeira circle. The research aimed to contribute to an empirically based re-theorization of the notion of Bildung to encompass continuous bodily and non-verbal processes, such as those occurring during martial arts practice. To do so, I employed the phenomenological theory of experience, the theories of Bildung and practicing (Üben) based on it, and pedagogical-phenomenological videography to analyze a sample of six video examples. The data for the research was collected in the contemporary capoeira group in Mexico City, to which I have belonged for 20 years. Results were generated at the methodological, theoretical, and practical levels. At the methodological level, the pedagogical-phenomenological videography was adapted to study non-school contexts like capoeira courses. At the theoretical level, I proposed an expansion of the notion of Bildung in terms of a theory of practicing (Üben) that allows one to capture the practice of the martial artist as a process in which one practices oneself by making a body in relation to an object of practice and a community of praxis. Through this practicing embodiment, the person can transform their self-world relations and become different. Finally, on a practical level, I propose a didactic approach for teaching and practicing capoeira (and, potentially, other martial arts) that recognizes the formative character of the negative moments of practicing.