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Ey Capoeira, Salve! Nice Cool Daddy. Martello Cruz is a badass move, and Macaco is hard as hell to do.

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Capoeira is a nice style and personally wanted to appreciate it, in general.

Capoeira is actually a very useful martial art for combat. I've used it many times in street fights and come out safe. It's an art that you really need timing for. It's like Kung fu and Taekkyun in that you must really understand the art, work at it, practice it, spar a lot (spar people that practice capoeira, and people that practice other arts), dedicate yourself to it, understand the applications for all the movements, and so forth.

But to be honest it's an art that not everybody will be able to use it for combat. You need to be someone that has rythem and so forth to be able to use it. Most people that can really use it well in a fight are actually dancers since they understand timing and what not.

If you can use it, you'll kick serious butt. If you can't, then yeah.

It's like Muay Thai but dancing if you ask me. We use every single limp to attack. Knees, feet, arms, fists, our head, elbows, and so forth. It's just that you won't see these movements until your third or fourth month. It's also a good idea to read up on the techniques online and from books like the Little Capoeira Book. And many of those techniques are extremely close range. Knee attacks are very very close range, and normaly aimed for the head area, and some knee techniques are jumoing knee techniques. Fist/hand techniques are backhand slaps, fronthand slaps, punches, eye and ear pokes, throat punches, cupped hand attacks, hand chops, and so forth. We have head butts also.

Just to give you an idea of what most of the martial art world outside of capoeira doesn't know about us.

You are so right. It's like Muay Thai but dancing. What sucks though is that many martial artist diss us and yet don't know jack about the art. They get mad that the first two months they are in it that they learn very little about using it to fight. Well they are impatient and don't deserve to that part of the style then.

Well in truth it is not just the black slaves from africa that develped it. Capoeira is an evolution of all of the martial arts that the slaves from africa brought with them, the martial arts of the native people of brazil, and some martial techniques from white slaves and the white slave masters mixed together. But mainly the african slaves and native slaves.

And unlike most East Asian martial arts that are seen today, Capoeira is between 400-600 years old today and has been effective since then.

A lot of people don't ever take that into account when they diss it.

We also learn how to use daggers, razor blades, barber knifes, and so forth as weapons since they can be very easily concealed and just as easily taken out to attack people.

Dude, five years of capoeira, plus training in other arts, have given me a strong view on type of techniques can be used in a fight and what can't.

To be honest, many MMA dudes see UFC, start learning mma, and think they know so much about martial arts as a result. It gets super annoying to be honest. I respect MMA dudes for the most part. But when I get those retards on facebook, and myspace that think they can fight just cause they know Muay Thai, BJJ, and Escrima, I want to beat the hell out of them. They diss every single art online, and then when someone they diss online meets them in real life they act completely different.

MMA is great, and it does teach selfdefense but many of it's practitioners think that just cause they are learning all of these techniques that they are the best. In truth all the techniques they are learning are just basics, nothing else.

True mixed martial artists are the martial artists that learn 3-4 traditional martial arts, and understand how to combine them to their own fighting style. An example would be Bruce Lee, Jason David Frank, and so forth.

MMA itself, is a hybrid art. Like many other arts. It is one art.

I know that show it is called Deadly Arts. That master is Mestre Acordeon. I've met him. he is really nice and an awesome guy.

Most people that do karate and TKD have a very hard time transfering. But those that do Muay thai, chinese arts, and so forth transfer very well.