CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

This is another tremendously effective, 100% Capoeira sequence that I teach and which most of you have never ever seen because most of you are trained by people who are exercise specialists including aspects of Capoeira [ the song, the dance, the noncombatively applied most basic movements ] in their workouts instead of Capeoira warriors and self defense experts

^^^^What I'm showing above is to my knowledge the very first actually functional, actually doable real world usable in the modern day Capoeira gun disarm. It is a literal truth to say that this video is literally a world first, literally makes history [ I would be more than happy to see a Capoeira video predating mine dealing with a gun disarm with equal or even superior functionality ,as imo the dearth of fighting functional Capoeira videos is the worst kind of insult to our dazzlingly lethal, fighting functional Capoeira warrior ancestors ]. The responses that I've received are swift and so far 100% in approval. I absolutely do not buy into the garbage ideas and beliefs that Capoeira lacks ANYTHING. Animal hand techniques, nerve strikes, grappling, locks chokes weapons escapes multifights spirituality history academics artisans fitness fun social connections music dance love life death...whatever you want? Capoeira has it and then some. Whether you will find a Mestre o...

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This is a very effective basic expression of the Front Escape, that actually works in a real fight vs punches, kicks, knees, and weapons like knives. The most prominent form of "esquiva" is really useless in an actual fight, and is taught the way that it is because that particularly useless expression is very beautiful and aesthetically preferable in the roda. They would rather teach you something that's pretty, but completely useless in a actual fight. Knowingly. They teach you something that is. USELESS. In a fight. Yet they have the gall to call to say they are teaching you self defense. No, they're not. They're teaching you some pretty dance moves that will get you beat up. Or worse. CAPOEIRA is an EXCELLENT martial art. Most of the "Mestres" teaching it? Completely suck and are wholly useless in self defense. Politics and money and getting as many women as possible have pretty much dominated the nonfighting non-self defense noncontact or ve...

Cardio capoeiristas...noncontact guys and gals...can be very fit, acrobatic, fluid, beautiful in movement...but they can't fight a lick. They are good hearted, well-intentioned, oftentimes sincere and intelligent people who practice enthusiastically and with loyalty. They also tend to have the money to pay their Mestres very well and keep their academy open and thriving. They tend to look like this: They are absolutely USELESS in a actual fight, and Capoeira is designed first and foremost for fighting the slaver and self defense; it's designed to defeat oppressors from within and without, inner demons like pity despair rage lack of focus lack of peace of mind and self doubt and the heartlessness that oftentimes humans can display to each other while we journey through life. I recently was informed that my standing Msimamo Osoosi/Oxossi/Ochosi...which you miscall Negativa... is not Capoeira or part of Capoeira in any way shape or form. After I had a good lau...

This highly effective combination I use quite a few times, and used to startling effect 3 times running yesterday while sparring. I hope all of you enjoy this video, and comment and like my video on this blog, Google+, and YouTube. Please follow my blog! Thanks!

There will be a very few people who will see this video and complain...the very same people who don't practice self defense focused Capoeira anyway. I hope everyone--including my few detractors--enjoys this video, and I hope that some of you will find the energy and desire to make similar videos showing doable, functional capoeira self defense with your friends, students, family, training partners, etc.

These last few days have seen a small number of noncontact, non self defense training "capoeiristas" of all stripes..." Angoleiros" who claim to practice the legit art of my Afrikan ancestors, yet somehow don't know that our ancestors never ever called our country "ANGOLA" because that word "angola" came into existence because the racist White slavers misunderstood and mispronounced the title "Ngola", which is the title for the ruler of The Kingdom of Ndongo,   and various other "capoeiristas" from various other schools of thought...come out of the woodwork, all clamoring the kinds of silly nonsense that comes from people who don't actually train self defense or have the inclination to do so...but who desperately want to maintain the fiction that they do. In the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Even a former Mestre I trained with--a person I considered a friend and still respect to this day--turned hi...

When most people think of Capoeiristas, images of rodas, traveling cultural troupes, Brazilian music and acrobatics spring to mind. Herbalists, artists, spiritualists, real life dashing versions of Zorro and Robin Hood, real life Amazonian Queens, philosophers, writers, politicians, policemen, and vale tudo champions don't spring to mind. When most people think of Capoeiristas...fluid, explosively fast, beautiful to behold, noncontact moves and blows, sexy bodies, smiles and what seems to be esoteric or archaic rituals in a roda may come to mind. The progenitors of Parkour free running, the root and source of breakdancing, one of the first creators of male and female guerilla warfare masters, and healers do not come to mind. When most people think of Capoeiristas...slow, spiritual songs or upbeat songs that set the heart mind and spirit afire spring to mind. Magic does not come to mind. Historians do not come to mind. Some of the greatest huminatarians on Earth do not come to ...

If you don't train to develop effective self defense skills with your Capoeira, then whatever else you do? It's not Capoeira. Period. Capoeira is more than a fighting style, more than a martial art, but it started off with the single focus and purpose and goal of developing powerful, lethal warriors trained in an amalgamation of African martial arts that matured not just in Brazil but in various important places in the Western Hemisphere like Martinique, Belize, Haiti, Cuba, etc for the single purpose of defeating and overcoming slavers and oppressors of all forms and stripes. Period. The spiritual component--which materialized as Candomble in Brazil--is ever present in African martial arts. But at no time does it supersede the mandate to develop potent, functional, efficient, effective fighting skills and lethal warriors trained in the use of martial skills. In fact? Such spiritual training of the quality and ilk that Candomble provides vastly enhances the chance of the C...