THE NYANI RAHISI: THE REAL "ROLE" OF CAPOEIRA

 You never heard of the Nyani Rahisi, have you? But  if you've taken Cardio Capoeira...Angola, Regionale, Moderna, Contemperaneo, whatever flavor you take...I bet you've heard of the technique called "Role".

For those of you who haven't, and for those of you who are beginners and whatnot? Here's a brief primer on the Role:

The "role" in Capoeira refers to a rolling movement used by practitioners to evade attacks and maintain their balance during a game (called a "jogo"). The role is a fundamental defensive and evasive technique in Capoeira, and it allows the practitioner to quickly change position and/or avoid getting kicked or hit by their opponent.

There are different variations of the role, including the "rolê para frente" (forward roll) and the "rolê para trás" (backward roll). These rolls are performed smoothly and fluidly to maintain the flow of the Capoeira game.

The problem is? None of these Cardio Capoeira Mestres know how to teach the technique for self defense, fighting, sports combat, or play in the real world in any way unless it's in the highly dysfunctional roda. They don't even know the Basic 10 angles of the movement they incorrectly call Role, the basic weapons taught with the movement,  the geometric movement patterns drawn my ancestors invented ( along with the branch of mathematics incorrectly named "geometry", which Black Alkebulans taught to The Greeks ) and which are still preserved today in many ways like the Adinkra symbols which we used to create the forerunner of supersymmetry thousands of years before the word "supersymmetry" existed, the wrestling...

...let me stop. I'm digressing. 

My point is? These well meaning but deluded teachers tend to teach completely unrealistic, useless techniques that look like this: 

The technique shown above is completely useless for any form of self defense or sports combat. It's only viable for cardiovascular exercise. As you know, my ancestors from Alkebulan [ whose proper name was incorrectly Anglocized into "Africa" from the Roman Aphri-terra..."Land of the Aphri". The "ica" in Latin denotes a landmass as well, thus we have "Afrika" and "Africa", both Roman. And probably derived from another Indigenous name for our continent by Black people, "Afuraka" or "Afraka".] executed the real technique...called the Nyani Rahisi, which I will show later below...before during and after facing the worst and most horrible circumstances human beings have ever inflicted upon human beings: Arabic and European enslavement of the people of Alkebulan [ Alkebulan is miscalled "Africa", and is the most corroborated and most ancient name for the continent of my people,  which birthed humanity ]. Therefore the real technique and skill cannot be what these good hearted but completely misled men above want to show to us.

Real street fights where you'll have to use low rolling movement skills similar to the technique incorrectly named "role" by Cardio Capoeira...much less the far more severe self defense situations, which I'll address in a different article...have punches, weapons, knees, grabs, pushing,  pulling, kicks, stomps, and all manner of things. The most common street fights where you, your students, loved ones and/or friends will be called upon to use your skills tend to look like variations of this [ trigger warning! Violent street fight will be shown to you if you access the link below ]:

TRIGGER WARNING: VIOLENT STREET FIGHT WILL BE SHOWN TO YOU IF YOU TOUCH THIS LINK

Nobody on Earth who practices Cardio Capoeira or any form of popular "Capoeira" knows how to train these techniques for self defense, the realities of the streets and the forms of conflict in the modern world. Only I and the students of my ATACX GYM possess this knowledge, and have always trained to acquire realistic, authentic skill in any situation.

 The real, authentic technique is called "Nyani Rahisi"..."Simple Simian [ movement] " referring to how my ancestors studied animals [ in this case simians ] and adapted the simplest of their playful movements...a rolling movement...to the most rigorous of needs for hunting, escaping and countering attacks by apex predators, dealing with the devastating assaults nature can launch at us, and of course for human versus human conflicts. I... Mwalimu Mtaalam [ meaning Expert Teacher ] Ras Fletcher... have taken these skills and both refined and modernized them further in order to apply to the street conflicts of today. 

Here's proof: 

You see the above? That is one of the dozens of ways we use to safely, properly train self defense techniques and have fun at the same time. 

It's impossible to learn the skills and knowledge I teach in my ATACX GYM  by doing anything that any Cardio Capoeira Mestre teaches or knows. Unfortunately, most of these well meaning  teachers were misled by their teachers...because their White Brazilian teachers deliberately and purposely never learned the authentic art. It's not their fault these young modern teachers like the White Brazilians above didn't learn the authentic art of Kipura, as Kipura was zealously guarded in the Black communities. Experts of the art frequently pretended not even to know what the word meant, if someone these experts didn't know asked them about it. Why did they do this? Because practicing Kipura was a death penalty offense in Brazil since the 1500's. If the Kipura warriors admitted they knew anything whatsoever about Kipura? The White Brazilian authorities would try [ and oftentimes fail ] to kill them immediately.

To make matters worse? The government of Getulio Vargas in the 1930's made outdoors, malta style, and kilombo Kipura...the only authentic Kipura in all of Brazil...illegal. That is why Mestre Bimba was such a genius to persuade the government to allow practice of Kipura indoors, thus birthing The Academy Era of Kipura in Brazil.

Even then the racist governments of Brasil feared the power of Kipura...because Kipura was so powerful that it defeated entire colonial empires, forced the ending of slavery, defeated neighboring countries during  The Paraguayan War known as The Triple Alliance War defeated the Dutch invaders as well as German and Irish mercenary armies...all while being outnumbered 15 to 1 and outgunned 35 to 1. 

With the power of Kipura and the terrifying phantom of and fear of a joint front being formed between Alkebulans miscalled Africans and Native South Americans causing the corrupt elite colonizers to lose sleep and fear the justified retribution they knew they would receive for the centuries they brutalized people of Alkebulan, Indigenous or Afro-Indigenous blood spurring them on, for centuries the government of Brazil ordered the police and military to kill, imprison, administer 300 lashes to, deport to prison slave labor colonies, or some combination of the above all Kipura warriors they could arrest. This was done to curtail the practice of Kipura and prevent its proliferation amongst Black people in Brazil. 

To that end, the policia militario and the policia civil would assault kilombos whenever they could, despite the heavy casualties the Kipura kilombo warriors would inflict. In the cities of Brasil, the policia civil would make regular unannounced visits to any place teaching Kipura; even during the times of Pastinha and Bimba ( this continued until 1984 ). If the police saw anything or any person they didn't like? They would use this as a pretext to shut down the school and arrest everyone involved. Unfortunately some of the people arrested were murdered, never seen again, or both.

This oppression caused a staggering response by real Kipura practitioners, decidedly defeating the policia militario and changing the course of history for the entire Western Hemisphere. But that response will be saved for another blog

Ditadour Vargas during the 1930's was the first to realize Kipura and its practitioners could not be extinguished, and attempting to do so would result in the destruction of Brazil. He hit upon the idea of culturally coopting Kipura,  and that notion became an official government theme and lie til this day. 

The 1964-1986 Military Governments of Brazil would excel all others in this cultural coopting endeavor. They would do everything they can to use Kipura as a moneymaking and nationalism centering tool, creating "Tourist Capoeira" to attract tourists from the USA and Europe, but at the same time The Military Governments cruel Afro-Brazilian targeted atrocities and barbarities made authentic Kipura illegal in order to ensure that we Alkebulans miscalled Africans remained at the bottom of the socioecoculturalpolitical pyramid. This was done for a variety of evil reasons, not the least of which was the ravening terror and rage spawned by the wholly unexpected resurgence of Kipura in Kongo, Mozambique,  Angola, Burkina Faso and other countries.  This resurgence resulted in the complete defeat of the modern war machines of France, Belgium, Portugal and the humiliating defeat of USA and English mercenaries and soldiers secretly sent in to support the colonizers.  But foremost was the need of the corrupt elite of Brazil to keep their country operating with themselves on top. 

Tourist Capoeira? Gave birth to Cardio Capoeira. Cardio Capoeira? Birthed the useless rolê you see in the video above and all Cardio Capoeira classes worldwide. The useless rolê above? Is why I wrote this blog. 

And that is why nobody in Brazil or practicing Capoeira the world over...especially White middle and upper class Brazilians..have any clue or inkling regarding authentic Kipura. And neither did you, until you read my blog just now.

You're welcome. 

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