Any of You TrancEaddicts Know of or Do Capoeira???

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Posted by JayD on Mar-23-2001 03:07:

I saw Swamper reply to a thread in portuguese and I thought of capoeira.. .. It's a really nice and enjoyable thing to do. Does any-1 do it in here? I know we got alot of people from different countries and shit, so I just wanted to know

Posted by juzfugen on Mar-23-2001 04:28:

are you talking about the brazilian martial arts/dance? ive seen that performed and its preatty interesting especially the story behind it.it was origanally a form of fighting in africa similar to southeast asian martial arts and when they were sold into slavery and brought to the western world the slave owners prohibited anyform of self defence so they claimed it to be a religious based dance.theres a little history for ya i found interesting.

Posted by Swamper on Mar-23-2001 04:49:

I've seen it done in front of me... This one older dude had his friggen chest sticking out from his stomach so much it looked deformed... his pecs were huge yet the dude was thin, I don't get it.

..whatever.. he'd walk around on his hands and do crazy shit with his legs at the same time... unreal.

Posted by JayD on Mar-23-2001 06:04:

quote:
Originally posted by Swamper
I've seen it done in front of me... This one older dude had his friggen chest sticking out from his stomach so much it looked deformed... his pecs were huge yet the dude was thin, I don't get it.

..whatever.. he'd walk around on his hands and do crazy shit with his legs at the same time... unreal.

Hmmm.... Seems a little weird, Capoeira's not that freaky... As a metter of fact, check out this clip. I am pretty sure you will be amazed ... http://www.capoeira.de/fotos/archiv...ideo1/video3.rm

Posted by juzfugen on Mar-24-2001 02:38:

that video is preatty amazing

Posted by Henkie_henk on Mar-24-2001 07:57:

Yep it looks pretty cool

even the dutch people try to do it.. we have courses for the lame people etc...

There is no real contact witht the fighting is there??

Posted by JdDark on Apr-03-2001 11:41:

Hehe, finally a thread about martial arts.
I practised kung fy with the first western guy who went to China, I did some Capoeira, a while ago, just the basics but found it too soft, and in a month or so I'll start kickboxing and taekwondo....

Posted by Fatboy on Apr-03-2001 15:20:

I'm doing Kung Fu, and i find it quite amusing.. We get to do a shitload of weapons including sword, stick and some i don't even know the name of.. Can't wait til i get to train with those..

Posted by JdDark on Apr-03-2001 16:53:

Fatboy, I only trained with a stick, but damn, I'm good at it, hehehehe, but I found kung fu too soft, we could never give the partner a punch,
Kickboxing on the other hand, full contact, hope to break some noses, and legs........

Posted by Fatboy on Apr-04-2001 12:20:

quote:
Originally posted by JdDark
Fatboy, I only trained with a stick, but damn, I'm good at it, hehehehe, but I found kung fu too soft, we could never give the partner a punch,
Kickboxing on the other hand, full contact, hope to break some noses, and legs........

Lol Well, the style of kung fu i train now is full contact, and there's only four rules..

1 Don't hit the balls
2 Don't hit the throath
3 Don't put your finger in someones eye(!)
4 Don't hit the lower back

So hopefully some broken stuff will be on my list too

Peace

Posted by Henkie_henk on Apr-04-2001 14:10:

Hey guys i was just wondering.. if one blow to the throat would end the fight you have...

For instance..you get in a fight.. in a club.. (ofcourse not cool) the guy hits you in your face.. I never got hit in the face and got knocked-out.. so id probably still be standing.. and if id give him a punch on his throat...

MmmM could that kill him??

Posted by JdDark on Apr-04-2001 14:14:

I learned some tricks, hehehehe, he Henkie, you live in Holland, why not come over here, so I can exercice a little..........hehehe