This is another blog about a special martial srt called CAPOEIRA, in particular, ATACXGYM STREET WARRIOR CAPOEIRA."
So, you might be asking, "What is ATACXGYM STREET WARRIOR CAPOEIRA?"
ATACX GYM CAPOEIRA, taught by Head Coach Ras of the ATACXGYM, is a modern, functional, full spectrum self defense AND musical/cultural/fitness expression preserving the fighting and music of capoeira from the past and merging it with the best we have in the present and the future. In his expression, they do grappling, weapons, rodas, berimbau, modern music, orixas, multifights, yoga, street self defense skills, etc. In other words, they do it all.
Head Coach Ras has taken capoeira back to its original fighting roots, and added modern training methods and self defense needs to it. When you first see it, right away you can tell that this form of Capoeira was designed to fight. They have all the beautiful, fancy acrobatic moves capoeira is VERY famous for, EXCEPT THEY CAN FIGHT WITH THEM.
Don't believe me? Well, y'all can see it for yourselves:
In that video, as you an see, Head Coach Ras is selling an instructional video of the basic movements and strategies of his expression of capoeira. Now like I said before, anybody and EVERYBODY who is interested in capoeira, or self-defense at all, should but this instructional.
But why? you might ask.
Well, I'll tell you.
take a look at this video:
That was an excerpt of a nice DVD showing some basic Capoeira techniques and strategies. It looks nice and all, but it's missing one crucial element. That is...
"How would somebody actually apply those skills in a real fight?"
Now, see this video?
That video, and the one below this paragraph, are 2 examples of why you should buy this instructional. In the video above, you see that Coach Ras has put in clips rom actual fights and assaults. That's also in the insructional... In fact, almost the 1st 35 minutes is dedicated to news reports about "THE KNOCKOUT GAME:", and ways to defend it, using basic skills that you can spply the SECOND you learn it.
And the video below...
He shows a tiny bit of how he, and his students use functional training to get functional results.
he also says some other important jewels of knowledge, but you'll have to wait for a future blog post or posts, where I'll address some of them.
And now, for you BJJ lovers out there, I got a bit of a treat for you. below is a video of Rickson Gracie talking about his concerns of the state of BJJ:
It's what Head Coach Ras's reply to this video that should motivate people to buy his instructional more than anything I just said:
The concerns that Rickson voiced about bjj are many times more viral and more malicious and more widespread in "Capoeira". Here is a practice that has been created in Africa, and is so legendarily lethal in self defense skills of all forms that even its most hated enemies claim that Capoeira's practitioners wield otherworldly magic that enables them to fight and do things beyond the ability of most humans. And yet it is now in its most popular form as a exercise routine spiced with and influenced by African music and culture...but wholly devoid of self defense and martial art skill and curriculum. Here is a discipline whose greatest practitioner--Queen Nzinga--is not only African but a woman whose supergenius, whose charisma, whose exploits as a warrior monarch have never been equaled or surpassed by any man in the history of Capoeira [ or virtually any other human being in the history of humanity ] and yet...we have a inexcusably pitifully low amount of women warriors and women Professors in this art.
Here is a martial art that is renowned for its spiritual lore, its amazing acrobatic attacks and skill sets beyond compare, the genius cunning and wisdom of its practitioners, the great and holy reverence it places on its history and its spiritual practices, the inseparable practice of strengthening mind body emotions spirit ,the special and magical means of healing and nurturing life combined with the deadly and devastating techniques of combat all at once...yet almost 100% of its practitioners nowadays have no idea who Nzinga, Gigante, Oya, the Somali Dervishes, Madame Sataa, The Black Guard, and/or pretty much any historical figure before Mestre Bimba is and why they should know who they are. We have people claiming to teach a martial art on the one hand...but telling you to go learn self defense from a different martial art on another. Hold up. If you are practicing Capoeira as a martial art...YOU ALREADY KNOW SELF DEFENSE.
Now...you might want to go CROSS TRAIN in another martial art, to emphasize a particular training focus on a skill set that you already have in Kipura [ there is no technique, no method of training in any martial art, that isn't already within the purview of REAL Kipura the self defense martial art and that includes animal hand techniques. Kipura has...BY FAR...the most Animal Hand Techniques of any martial art in the world. BY FAR. It's not even close ]...but IF YOU LEARN THE MARTIAL ART OF KIPURA, THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOU HAVE TO SEEK SELF DEFENSE SKILL ELSEWHERE. And bottom line? Self defense training should be the central aspect of Kipura training. Game over, end of discussion. If you don't want to learn self defense but DO like the fitness and coordination training, the social aspects of Kipura? GREAT. Then be honest and learn CARDIO CAPOEIRA. 99.9% of Mestres on Earth right now are CARDIO CAPOEIRA Mestres. Admit it. Embrace it. Be honest about it. These peole are the Insanity, the Taebo of real Kipura. AND THAT'S FANTASTIC. It's a GOOD THING. But...IT'S NOT THE REAL DEAL GENUINE KIPURA. Saying and/or doing otherwise is the worst kind of dishonesty to all involved and the worst kind of disrespect to and even sometimes enmity for true Kipura. Yes, I said ENMITY. Evil intent toward Kipura. Why? Because claiming to teach self defense Kipura and actually teaching Cardio Capoeira is the destructive work that is part and parcel of the Brazilian government's specific government program to destroy self defense Kipura, destroy its African history root and character, and replace it with a falsified Brazilian and even mostly White Brazilian nationality and face. I am not in any way exaggerating. Here is the Brazilian government's own policy toward African Kipura and any and everything Black spelled out in their own history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanqueamiento
Anyway, if you want to learn real-world self-defense, capoeira-style, then go to his web site at: sites.google.com/site/atacxgymcapoeira and place an order.
TRUST ME, YOU'LL BE REAL GLAD YOU DID.
Oh and subscribe to his blog: CAPOEIRA THAT WORKS
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