CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

EVERY 11 MINUTES, A WOMAN IS RAPED IN BRAZIL.   IN AMERICA, NEARLY 1 IN 5 WOMEN ARE RAPED IN THEIR LIFETIMES The epidemic of sexual attacks on girls and women is worse, when we realize that the stats we receive are about the attacks that were reported and recorded. The great majority of rapes are never reported, AND the victim oftentimes know the rapist. So rapists generally get better at raping and rape more people because nobody reports them.  We absolutely can't let this continue. So what does all of this have to do with NJIA UHURU KIPURA, the fighting system of my family? EVERYTHING. In this modern era, most students look to disciplines like Muay Thai, MMA, Brazilian Jiujitsu, Judo, and other systems for rape defense. These other systems are very good systems. We like and respect them. In fact, literally every technique these arts [ and others ] use has been part of the techniques and movement arsenal of the fighting arts of Afrika [ MONTU ] long...

My "Negativa Applications" video has caused quite a stir amongst a number of Capoeiristas on Facebook, Google+ and in various online communities. I find myself heartened by the positive energy, piercing intelligence, perceptiveness and encouragement offered in these discussions by my growing list of supporters. I also find myself alternately amused by and smh@ some of the comments that my detractors make. Basically, my detractors think that Capoeira is a beautiful acrobatic calisthenics routine practiced to Capoeira music in a roda. Contact is very rare, functional training is essentially nonexistent. True sparring is forbidden. Candomble is nowhere to be found. What these detractors practice by and large is a Capoeira influenced musical fitness workout. While they are doing this Capoeira influenced workout, they sing songs about actual Capoeiristas who actually fight and who actually detailed their fighting and living experience with Capoeira. At the end of the tra...