CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

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...

And this is the video...ATACX GYM MKAO SIRI WAWINDAJI..."Posture of The Hidden Hunter"...popularly miscalled NEGATIVA for centuries. Because my family art of Njia Uhuru Kipura has returned the modernized,functionalized, original comprehensives skills of Kipura self defense APPLICATIONS...which has offended and inspired to more realistic, greater expressions of capoeira many capoeiristas around the world. What do you think of it? Leave comments below, like and share.

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...

To my Kipura...miscalled "Capoeira"... brethen, and even my esteemed colleagues who disagree with some of my positions, like Winnipeg Capoeira Angola...please consider the following: In my gym, THE ATACX GYM STREET WARRIOR CAPOEIRA, we strike alot with our hands, elbows, knees, heads, shoulders, fists, and use animal hand techniques. We use a wide assortment of throws and grabs, locks, breaks, chokes and more. And we insist that all  of these techniques are in fact founded in authentic Kipura...miscalled "Capoeira"... itself. This insistence of ours is founded in incredibly rigorous, accurate, invincible scientific data, research and knowledge which directly contravenes and destroys the popular fictions that anyone referring to the Afrikan art of Kipura by the Portugues name of "CAPOEIRA" given to Kipura by its blood enemies is simply unaware of, because these well meaning but thoroughly manipulated and misled people credit the propaganda and lies of the...

This is a vicious and slick use of  the knee, head butt, and U-Punch. I catch people with it all the time. The followup ground kick is extremely violent and usually enough to KO even the biggest meanest BG who might mess with you. Like I said many times before: capoeira is a devastating fighting martial art. Let's never forge that and practice it accordingly, or we will LOSE our beloved capoeira as it becomes some shallow folk dance and then withers away into an obscure, tragic death.

This capoeira hockey punch self defense expression is deceptively violent and very effective, so [ as with all my techniques, especailly for newbies ] I strongly recommend that you make sure you wear protective gear. I hope you all enjoy the tech

If you fight with your capoeira, you will discover that there are maaaannny maaany magnificent options available to you that aren't as available or aren't available at all to other stylists. Capoeira is a FIGHTING art, and it's a travesty to not explore the mighty combat options available in its comprehensive arsenal of movement. Even if you don't train capoeira for its combat benefits? Like cardio kickboxing, you should know and practice the applications at least during shadowboxing and vs mitts, airshields, the heavy bag, etc. Your roda game will SKYROCKET as a result. If you don't? Your capoeira will never develope beyond a particular level; imagine a shadowboxer who doesn't know why or how he/she/they use their techniques; they don't know the purpose of each movement. Without context? One's skill is both underdeveloped and directionless; rudderless as a boat on stormy seas.

I really like this technique because alot of people have no idea whatsoever that Capoeira has vicious clinch techniques, despite the fact that African martial arts are known for skillful fast and powerful wrestlers and the clever and brutal use of the head butt. The clinch--standing or on the ground--is the best place to launch the head butt. The hand chops to the neck are absolutely vital, as the chops combined with the clinch cause your opponent's head to swing in a half circle which [ combined with the heavy hand snap down ] really magnifies the vicious brutality of the head butt. Notice how I fired the head butt at an angle, using the full power of my ginga, my whole body movement and the combination of my opponent being snapped forward and my head spearing from an unprotected angle. I'm deliberately targeting his temple, maximizing my likelihood of scoring a KO. You will most definitely stun your opponent at least briefly with this move. That's what makes the k...

This is a really excellent way to use capoeira in a real fight vs multiple opponents at once. It also shows the real world viability and utility of the floreios. Those fancy moves really serve a purpose combatively and are very very important to have and know. You'll succeed the great majority of the time because most of your opponents will be shocked and freeze a fraction of a second or more while you execute your combat floreios and you'll catch him more times than not if you set it up properly. Please comment my blogs, comment and like my videos and sub my Channel. This is how I know that you're out there and you're paying attention to my blogs. This is how I know I'm helping all of you out. Thank you! AXE CAPOEIRA!! With Malicia, Head Coach Ras of THE ATACX GYM CAPOEIRA LONG BEACH CA QUILOMBO