So I beat up on a capoeira guy...

[SevenStar]

nah, actually I didn't , but it made you look. In MT tonight, a capoeirista came by. his maestre is the capo guy that was in "The Quest" and now he's training with a local group. He gave a demo - awesome. He was doing the jenga while facing a concrete post, then did various kicks and maneuvers around it. finally, he did something that looked like a takedown, and I yelled "hey, that looked like a takedown" He then proceeded to show us various capo takedowns. I was impressed.

[Volcano Admim]

excuse the volcano wants to put his finger on your
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"mestre"
"ginga"

mkay :cool:

[SevenStar]

cool.

[Christopher M]

I have no idea if it's useable, but good capoeira looks awesome!

[truewrestler]

I've heard it is great for scoring with the ladies in the club... especially with glow sticks between your toes :p

Only The Strong is still one of my favorite martial arts movies

[apoweyn]

The guy in 'The Quest' was pretty phenomenal. He's also in 'Shootfighter 2' which (embarassingly) I have on tape. He's the main baddie. Check it out.

[truewrestler]

Wouldn't happen to be the guy who did the motion capture for Tekken 3's Eddie would he?

[rubthebuddha]

eddie was coo, but xiaoyu rawked. there's just something special about kicking ass under the guise of a chinese schoolgirl.

anyhoo, back to seven's topic: any mt people battle it out, even spar, with a capoeirista?

[SevenStar]

my friend has (not a guy from my gym) he said the capoeirista gave him a really hard time because he never knew where anything was coming from. He said he got a few shots on the guy, but he took most of the damage.

[apoweyn]

If you're interested, Bira Almeida (Mestre Acordeon) has a really good book about capoeira history and philosophy. Well worth checking out.

For technique, Nestor Capoeira has a couple of good books.

[Judge Pen]

There's a local school that always participates in our tournaments. I don't think they are the premier example of capoeria, but they are still pretty good. Their teacher doesn't seem to fight that well, but he has a student that could actually apply it in the ring.

I would think that they could do some damage if you weren't accustomed to their style of fighting. It seems they could take a knee out pretty easily with one of their kicks.