CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS

Cardio capoeiristas...noncontact guys and gals...can be very fit, acrobatic, fluid, beautiful in movement...but they can't fight a lick. They are good hearted, well-intentioned, oftentimes sincere and intelligent people who practice enthusiastically and with loyalty. They also tend to have the money to pay their Mestres very well and keep their academy open and thriving. They tend to look like this: They are absolutely USELESS in a actual fight, and Capoeira is designed first and foremost for fighting the slaver and self defense; it's designed to defeat oppressors from within and without, inner demons like pity despair rage lack of focus lack of peace of mind and self doubt and the heartlessness that oftentimes humans can display to each other while we journey through life. I recently was informed that my standing Msimamo Osoosi/Oxossi/Ochosi...which you miscall Negativa... is not Capoeira or part of Capoeira in any way shape or form. After I had a good lau...

This highly effective combination I use quite a few times, and used to startling effect 3 times running yesterday while sparring. I hope all of you enjoy this video, and comment and like my video on this blog, Google+, and YouTube. Please follow my blog! Thanks!

There will be a very few people who will see this video and complain...the very same people who don't practice self defense focused Capoeira anyway. I hope everyone--including my few detractors--enjoys this video, and I hope that some of you will find the energy and desire to make similar videos showing doable, functional capoeira self defense with your friends, students, family, training partners, etc.

These last few days have seen a small number of noncontact, non self defense training "capoeiristas" of all stripes..." Angoleiros" who claim to practice the legit art of my Afrikan ancestors, yet somehow don't know that our ancestors never ever called our country "ANGOLA" because that word "angola" came into existence because the racist White slavers misunderstood and mispronounced the title "Ngola", which is the title for the ruler of The Kingdom of Ndongo,   and various other "capoeiristas" from various other schools of thought...come out of the woodwork, all clamoring the kinds of silly nonsense that comes from people who don't actually train self defense or have the inclination to do so...but who desperately want to maintain the fiction that they do. In the face of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Even a former Mestre I trained with--a person I considered a friend and still respect to this day--turned hi...

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.