CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

The new, relatively fad oriented, relatively uninformed MMA media sings the praises of movement training due largely to the phenom of Conor Mcgregor. The more informed MMA pundits sing the praises of the movements of T.J. Dillashaw, Cruz, Carlos Condit, and a few others. Due to the great benefits of the art of my family, NJIA UHURU [ "The Way of Freedom" ], I've known and practiced Weaponizing Human Movement for decades. What is Weaponizing Human Movement? Simply, we take every human movement we can, and use it for functional self defense; regardless of where and how I was introduced to it. So what if I see a movement from basketball, track and field, ballet, gymnastics, or some form of exercise. I take that movement and functionalize it for self defense. This is the process I innovated decades ago, and named Weaponizing Human Movement. I had to go and trademark this name and process under the Weaponizing Human Movement name, because too many people were biting  [ cop...

There is no separation between the Alkebulan/Afrikan art of Kipura miscalled "Capoeira" and the Afrikan spiritual beliefs underpinning the warrior art of my ancestors. That's why oftentimes in both Afrika and the Americas [ not just Brazil ] my warrior ancestors were also called "Oso", "Baba", "mandinguero", "houngan", which roughly means  "sorcerers" What is the difference between Kipura and Capoeira? We must pry open the hidden places of world history to honestly answer this question. Starting with the fact that Montu is the source of all fighting systems the world over.  But that story is so vast and multitiered that it deserves its own series of blogs. We cannot cover that story now. In order to further examine the true history of Kipura and "Capoeira", we truly must begin in the ancient whole human development and self defense systems which spring from the united Empire of Nwb...