Capoiera is awesome
- Started
- Last post
- 25 Responses
- mcLeod0
people used to do it during lunch time when I was in college. its pretty fun to watch.
I laughed at the video though. Reminded me of Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy shoots the dude with the sabre.
- magnificent_ruin0
it can break your knee
- CALLES0
do you know the history of capoeira?
- designer4rent0
fake
- utopian20
LOL
- TheBlueOne0
I always thought this vid was a cool bit of production:
- locustsloth0
from that movie...with the things...and the people.....
- ninjasavant0
only the strong?
- jfletcher0
hahahaha, this is awesome.
- Mimio0
Capicola is awesome
- CALLES0
but it's still awesome.. the real thing i mean
- Gilt0010
I think it goes more like this...
- designer4rent0
Capoiera is fun to watch.
- 7point340
i always thought it evolved out of a dance style.
and it always seemed to me that it would be better suited as an art form much in the way tai chi isfrom a sparring/offensive/defensive perspective is it practical at all?
excuse my ignorance
- a capoiera practitioner would get owned in an MMA fightacescence
- depends. there's a few capoeira heads in MMA that have done OK - Andre Gusman (IFL) and Jean Silva in the UKTheBlueOne
- But it's not designed for MMA...TheBlueOne
- tai chi is actually a martial art disguised as an art form/exercisemcLeod
- true, mcLeod, but you got the gist of my question7point34
- But if you want to learn a martial art for simple quick self defense, capoeira is not a good choice...TheBlueOne
- TheBlueOne0
As the resident QBN capoeira head - thanks for spreading this crap. *sigh*
That shit is from a movie. It's fake. I publish an independent magazine for capoeira and my stupid email box has been filled with shit about this stupid video for the last two weeks. I can't even escape it here....*sigh*
- so you are a preacher AND capoeira master?CALLES
- well, not master..nowhere near it :)TheBlueOne
- Blue what mag do you publish?
nicnichols - Planet Capoeira. Kinda been on the dl for a few years..bringing it back soon...TheBlueOne
- Voce nao pode ser capoeira nigueim, elis moran en bahia do brasilMeeklo
- designer4rent0
don't worry blue we all know this is bawls!
- ArmandoEstrada0
all kicking, flipping punching and they always miss....
- TheBlueOne0
Capoeira didn't evolve out of a dance style. Capoeira is capoeira. It's roots are in Africa, but developed into it;s modern form in Brazil. It has along history and various lineages through time - some from Rio (Called Capoeira Carioca, circa 19th century) were strictly streetfighting - no dancing, no upside down moves - and all those moves are still found in the art today, other forms from Brazil's northeast (Bahia primarily) were more dance-like, and those forms survived the police crackdown on the art until the 1930's. Capoeira is like a buskers art - it used to be done up on the streets for tourists, thus getting more "showier" and then it got added to alot of the brazilian folkloric shows that toured the world in the 50's and 60's. Some capoeiristas stayed behind in europe (Nestor Capoeira) and some in the US (Mestres Jelon in NY and Accordeon in SF) in the early 70's. And it's just gotten bigger globally since that time.
It CAN be a pretty good set of fighting skills - pretty basic,with emphasis on liveness, evasion etc. (and no good fighting capoeirista would ever turn his back or do a cartwheel or whatever in a fight) but it's rarely taught that way, and besides the best part about capoeira is actually playing capoeira, and the aim of that isn't to beat each other up, but rather push each other to find different answers to offensive and defensive puzzles within the game. Plus it's a whole cultural thing - the music, songs, instumentation and rituals of it are vital. I discovered it in '94 myself and have been involved ever since. One of the most complete and humanistic expressions of humanity I have ever come across...
And besides...after the training and the playing and the fighting, you sometimes just samba. And the women are amazing.
- sikma0
correct me if i'm wrong. but didn't it develop as a way for slaves to conceal the fact that they practicing martial arts by disusing it as dancing?
there is a Capoiera studio/club a couple blocks away from my apartment. it looks like fun. maybe i should join.....