CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

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...

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...