CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

The purpose of this Angoleiro roda drill hosted by Mestre Themba and his students in Oakland California was to remove your partner from the circle/roda by using minimal striking, primarily posture, movement, and cutting off your opponent's ability to escape/evade/maneuver, then pushing/sweeping/takedowns/throws or striking. Using Udanganyifu [ miscalled by the Brazilian Portuguese term "malicia" ] is required. Both feet and all parts of the body had to remain in the circle...with emphasis being on the hands and feet. After dealing with the slick technical skills of my younger brother in the White hoodie, SENSEI THOMAS OF THE WAY OF SIMPLICITY [ which we both learned from our primary teacher and Senior Lead Instructor of the Family Arts, Uncle Bobby ], I managed to get him to step with one foot out of the circle. It was fun and the way Mestre Themba's Angoleiros practice this skill drill is unique amongst most who trace their lineage to ...

Beautiful, dangerous, brilliant, passionate, dancing, loving, vengeful, nurturing, warrior Osun. One of the crucial embodiments of The Water Principle in the NJIA UHURU fighting art of my family, Osun has as many expressions as there are passions and possibilities for the rivers and lakes of Earth...and space. [ What space "rivers"? Have you heard of rivers of molecules moving, interacting, and dancing The Dance of Eternity with each other? This is how electrically "neutral" molecules...molecules without a positive or negative charge...become charged positively or negatively. It's also how they return to an electrically neutral state, via Valence Electron movements. This is merely part of The Dance of Eternity that Osun dances and teaches. ] Watch this video below. Be blown away. And realize how your Cardio Capoeira Mestre knows none of the things that he/she/they claim to know. And notice the date the suddenly got better...and compare that date wi...

INTERNATIONAL STREET FIGHTING SELF DEFENSE TECHNIQUE TIP OF THE WEEK: MEXICO Mexico is regularly in my Top Ten countries around the world viewing my videos, so I want to reward my loyal viewers in Mexico with a blog and self defense tips just for them. Viva la Mexico!! Yes, my friends. You read correctly. Someone was stupid enough to get into a fight with Saul Canelo Alvarez. Yes. THAT Canelo Alvarez. THEE Canelo Alvarez. You know. The champ who used his massive size and skill to overcome the magnificent Miguel Cotto, and who was taken to school by Floyd Mayweather in a one-sided defeat showing how great the American boxer is. Still don't get it? I mean THIS guy right here:  As a result? Canelo is  battling a $9 Million Dollar Law Suit, as the person he fought...108 pound former IBF flyweight champ Ulises Solis...got his jaw broken in the fight.   Ulises claims that Canelo started the fight. I have been unable to unearth more solid,...

INTERNATIONAL STREET FIGHT TIP OF THE DAY: ROAD RAGE IN TURKEY Many of us have seen Road Rage before, right? Angry drivers screaming obscenities or starting a physical confrontation with each other over disagreements while driving their vehicles. How many of us have teachers that give us specific training for this kind of thing in our self defense schools? Almost none of you. The ATACX GYM provides the instruction you need, and our self defense system...NJIA UHURU...is very capable of resolving these matters swiftly and efficiently. Unlike sports like MMA, we don't have to rely on punching or kicking someone on the face or body, or committing our entire bodies to grappling maneuvers that leave multiple assailants free to agress upon us. We have skills and tools in our arsenal that allow us to CONTROL AND DE-ESCALATE a situation WITHOUT having to hurt our attacker, and WITHOUT putting ourselves in a compromised position because we are committing our whole bodies to a gra...

INTERNATIONAL SELF DEFENSE FIGHTING TIP OF THE DAY: AMERICAN STREET FIGHT Just as I promised you, here is the inaugural International Self Defense Technique of the Day. This incident happened in my home country of America. We will examine what happened and I will show you a way to resolve this fight using the techniques I show in my videos. As always, remember: ALL FIGHTS ARE TO BE AVOIDED. WALK AWAY, RUN AWAY, TALK YOUR WAY OUT OF A FIGHT IF AT ALL POSSIBLE. But when it's not possible? Then you have to defend yourself. Responsibly, effectively, and legally. Here is the situation in America. A fight between two Black teenagers, the aggressor being the Black man with no shirt on. I will call the aggressor "No Shirt" because he isn't wearing a shirt. The defender is "Shirt". SHIRT should have done this to NO SHIRT: The first thing that the defender should have done, if possible? Run away. Like this: But in this situat...

All over the world...as the picture of terrible knife attack in China shows...as well as in the country of Brazil and in America...the country that I live in...there are, unfortunately, many attacks upon innocent people made by criminals armed with knives. No Brasil e na América ... o país onde moro ... há, infelizmente, muitos ataques contra pessoas inocentes feitos por criminosos armados com facas. Attacks in America:   DANGEROUS KNIFE ATTACK IN CALIFORNIA Ataques no Brazil:  AUMENTO DE ATAQUES A FACA NOS CIDADAOS NA RIO DE JANEIRO In fact, a college student armed with a knife attacked four other college students yesterday; on the campus of the University of California, Merced. I live in California. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/05/us/university-of-california-merced-stabbing.html?_r=0 " A student wielding a hunting knife stabbed four people at the start of a class on Wednesday on the campus of the  University of California, Merced , before he wa...

Right when you think that the days of the Kipura..."Capoeira"...vigilante hero facing down and defeating corrupt lawmen is long done, we get reminded [ and have been for years now in the USA, as well as across the world most especially wherever people of Afrikan descent live ] that we still need to do exactly that.  Here are some of the old pix of "capoeiristas" fighting racist police and whatnot back in Brazil and fighting in wars in Haiti using Kipura, Mbangala Montu, and a few others. TOUISSANT LOUVERTURE LED A CRACK SQUADRON OF AFRIKAN MONTU WARRIORS AS HE SUCCESSFULLY INITIATED THE WAR  TO END SLAVERY AND EXTINGUISH THE CIVIL WAR IN SAN DOMINGO... ...BUT WHEN JEAN FRANCOIS TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE LOOKED TO DIPLOMATICALLY ENGAGE THE SLAVE TRADING FRANCE OF NAPOLEAN BONAPARTE, HE WAS BETRAYED AND OUSTED AS LEADER. ALL EVIDENCE SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT TOUISSAINT...HIS MASSIVE GENIUS OUTSTRIPPING ALL OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES, INCLUDING BONAPARTE...HAD WORKED OUT ON ...

If you're ready to learn the truly effective real deal training that I offer, complete with real acrobatic training that really works in real fights, and real Animal Styles, real Elemental Styles, etc. Come to my website. https://sites.google.com/site/atacxgymcapoeira/home I'm Head Coach Ras of THE ATACX GYM STREET WARRIORS. I, my students and family practice authentic self defense with our unique Afrikan rooted fighting system which is the personalized art of my family's inheritance from Afrika. Our art has been personalized by my family in exactly the same way that the Gracies have their own family's personalized variant of Self Defense Judo...which they miscalled Jujutsu, back then. 99.99% of you "capoeiristas" reading this not only don't practice the authentic art of my ancestors [ because native Afrikans don't speak Portuguese nor refer to our native arts by the Portuguese word "capoeira" ], you don't practice self defense...