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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U8QvgeZJG0&mode=related&search=

nice takedowns and sweeps between mins 4 and 5.

I like the front kick to the face at 5:29 - I can see that as one of those...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ScAtdqKEs&mode=related&search=

nice takedown at :32

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lysCnz4CxM&mode=related&search=

contact is made, several takedowns are shown.

that's not the 1995 fight. he has fights listed between 95 and 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aqh6ZjAc1tY

this is footage of mestre hulk fighting. he's actually got a 5-4 record, 4-4 according to sherdog.

I'm not sure about the 93 fight, but you can probably find that WVC fight somewhere.

yup. gustavo machado is another one.

just read something else that said marco ruas is a high ranking capoeirista.

one of our purple belts, born and raised in brazil has his background in capoeira.

in UFC 4, one of the alternates...

http://www.axecapoeira.com/classes.php?placeID=1 - this school has vale tudo classes.

these are the english lyrics to the song about the hulk vs bitetti:

It was
It was in the moonlight
that...

golden arhat - the fight was a vale tudo in brazil in 1995. it was mastre hulk (capoeira) vs amaury bitetti (bjj). hulk knocked bitetti out in only 22 seconds.

Antonio "Garra" Santos (Capoeira)...

from the discovery channel's website:

After slavery was abolished, these African slaves joined or formed criminal gangs in the cities of Brazil due to chronic unemployment of the time. Capoeira...

while training of the art was banned, capoeira was associated most commonly with criminals and gangsters.... doesn't that sound similar to things heard about kung fu?

in the roda they typically don't - it interrupts the flow of the game. If they do, from what I've seen, it's usually takedowns or clinching. However, outside of the roda, guys will spar with you - or...

taken from bigbearacademy.com:

this was posted by a capoeirista on fightauthority.com:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd1fgpkjPVo&mode=related&search=

you can see where several sweeps would be here, but the blatantly obvious takedown is at :38.

This is the miami branch of the...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2070236979807491069&q=capoeira

there are like three take downs in this one. I saw a rasteira and two others.

zero punching ability, but DAYUM he's got some athletic ability. As for his style, prolly TKD, but those hook kicks ARE in capoeira. It's called Queixada. the spinning hook or crescent kick is...

Note that I didn't say "if he's not a good fighter, he wasn't trained properly". Regardless of your caliber, if you have had proper training, you know how to use your art for more than just...

No offense, but if your friend couldn't fight with it, he wasn't trained properly.

sounds like you've never seen real capoeira applications - there is a lot of infighting in them - knees, elbows, headbutts, etc. there are take downs also.

Due to their agility, they would...

what style of capoeira is it?