Capoeira

[SevenStar]

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 then became associated with criminal or anti-governmental activities and was banned in 1892.

Capoeira continued to be practiced underground until 1937, when Capoeira was demonstrated in front of the Brazilian president who then allowed the first Capoeira school to be opened. Capoeira has since been recognised as an official national sport, and its popularity spread around the world in the 1970s.

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Both styles employ feints and other forms of subterfuge, as well as extensive groundwork in the form of sweeps, kicks and even headbutts.

[Black Jack II]

Plus there is the french chausson connection.

[SevenStar]

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) versus Jason Canals (Submission): Santos won after Canals dislocated his shoulder

[SevenStar]

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 I saw it happening
In a freefight with jiu-jitsu
the capoeirista won
It was
It was in the moonlight
that I saw it happening
In a freefight with jiu-jitsu
the capoeirista won
He gave an armada, he gave a rasteira
a meia lua and a ponteira
Yet in the first round
the capoeirista won
Below the ring
Mestre Bimba was thrilled
playing his berimbau
while we sung
It was
It was in the moonlight
that I saw it happening
In a freefight with jiu-jitsu
the capoeirista won

[golden arhat]

still thats only like 2 fights right ?

consistency is the key word here

[PangQuan]

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) versus Jason Canals (Submission): Santos won after Canals dislocated his shoulder

wow nice, is there any footage of this or was it not recorded?

[Pork Chop]

I believe Marco Ruas and those Luta Livre/Vale Tudo guys were all Capoeira trained, if they didn't come out of a Gracie school.

see also jean silva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZljCjwBteM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgrYpuf8BI

[SevenStar]

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 was a capoeirista - he lost.

[SevenStar]

I believe Marco Ruas and those Luta Livre/Vale Tudo guys were all Capoeira trained, if they didn't come out of a Gracie school.

see also jean silva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZljCjwBteM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgrYpuf8BI

yup. gustavo machado is another one.

[SevenStar]

wow nice, is there any footage of this or was it not recorded?

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

[SevenStar]

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.

[golden arhat]

i didnt see alot of capoeira techniques being landed

and this was in 95 ? whats with the whole black and white thing ??

[SevenStar]

i didnt see alot of valetudo techniques being landed

and this was in 95 ? whats with the whole black and white thing ??

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

[PangQuan]

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.

nice fights!

its good to see in action.

[SevenStar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lysC...elated&search=

contact is made, several takedowns are shown.