Capoeira

[cakegirl]

Lol!

:d

[HtTKar]

When Capoeira was used for street combat in Rio around the turn of the last century, clubs, daggers, switchblades, and straight razors were used to supplement the art. It's kind of like those silat forms that don't make any combative sense until you place a knife or a kerambit in the hands of the practitioner.

Very, very true. It was all about the straightrazors. Read on the history of the straightrazor.

http://www.jamesakeating.com/maajak7a.html

It is an old capoeira belief that a razor could not cut through a silk scarf. Mestre Bimba(a famous capoeira teacher) said a razor wont cut your neck if you wear a silk scarf, it will just get stuck in the fabric, that is why instead of colored belts his students wore colored silk scarfs. Attached is a cartoon pic showing a capoeira move called lampada (oil lamp) or an upward strike to the artery on the neck.
Thanx AXE for your help !
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For more on using blades in unusual ways try researching some data on Silat and Capoeria. Both arts use blades in the feet (toes) and Capoeria uses methods of with razors too

[LoneHusky]

Very, very true. It was all about the straightrazors. Read on the history of the straightrazor.

http://www.jamesakeating.com/maajak7a.html

[LoneHusky]

"Capoeira is a art form, fighting method, self-defense, social struggle, sport, dance,folklore, culture and cultural resistance. It is also music, poetry, party, game, philosophy, and wisdom. Above all, it's a Martial Art and an Cultural and Artistical Expression of the oppressed black people of Brazil, Capoeira represents the quest for survival, freedom, dignity and identity.

Capoeira is one of the many Brazilian art forms that are a result of the slave trade. Developed as a fight-sport and practiced with the sound of the Berimbau, Capoeira was adopetd by the Brazilian people as its method of self-defense. This physical activity integrates a harmonic sense that provides the capoeirista the suavity of the crane, the agility and the skills of the feline, and the resistance and resilience of the ruminants.

Capoeira differ from other Martial Arts because of the strong African components: the rhythm of the music, the call and response of the songs, and the Ginga, the mobile guard of Capoeira hat resembles dance steps. Capoeira is a delightful sight, fun, relaxing, and empowering.

Capoeira is not only a method of self-defense; it symbolizes the resistance and the struggle for liberation of the Afro-Brazilians"

[Blue Wave Gym]

hey

Blue Wave Gym, who was the girl I grappled with?

Well I belive you were recently in some sub grap tourny or whatever and there was a pic of this chick you competed with, she was wearing a blue (I think)bjj type gi, unless the pic was of you in which case you are a hottie foe sho I'll try to find the post so you know wtf I'm talking about.

[Blue Wave Gym]

oops!!!!!

I was wrong, it was a post where some guy said 2007 adcc womens super fight cakegirl V.S. Leticia Ribeiro> She's kinda hot, but looks mean as hell so very interasting So if you're hotter than her then dam you're a hottie in my view in any event this whole post has so little to do with mma/grapeling/fighting I don't know why I even started to comment but wtf.
Hey does anyone want to hear some "chicks I've dated at a martial arts school I went to/THAT WAS A REALLY STUPID IDEA" stories LOL And btw if anyone else has similar stories and wants to "share" I could use a laugh cause it's almosrt as funny as people you've ko'ed stories.

[cakegirl]

Umm... I've competed in 2 tournaments recently in a blue gi, and one time one of my opponents had a blue gi, so I don't know what this pic is...

[LoneHusky]

that's good, I'd hate to see a 600lb man in vale tudo shorts.

[cakegirl]

Especially if he was excited by the Capoeira boys...

[Blue Wave Gym]

wtf is up with with all the gay talk on here lately

seriously people, I'm gonna have to go get my memory erased due to the amount of fruitiness I'm hearing on here lately. the order should be>
1. talking about fighting
2. talking about training
3. talking about drinking
4. talking about guns, knives and other weapons ect.
5. talking about boxing kickboxing and mma catalougs
6. talking about women (if you must)
and finally like number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 talking about gay stuff preferably not though

[Blue Wave Gym]

also btw

hey cakegirl, do you look better than Leticia Ribeiro or not, enough with the fuckin mystery already.

[Blue Wave Gym]

here's da pic cakegirl

http://bjj.org/a/people/ribeiro-leticia.html

so how do you compare to her looks wise???

[LoneHusky]

there's nothing hotter then a girl that's into martial arts. I don't care if you're a 600lb man on the outside I love you cakegirl. *takes up Capoeira*

[LoneHusky]

seriously people, I'm gonna have to go get my memory erased due to the amount of fruitiness I'm hearing on here lately. the order should be>
1. talking about fighting
2. talking about training
3. talking about drinking
4. talking about guns, knives and other weapons ect.
5. talking about boxing kickboxing and mma catalougs
6. talking about women (if you must)
and finally like number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 talking about gay stuff preferably not though

[cakegirl]

LOL, I don't know what she looks like, but she is Brazilian people and I am lumpy white people, so probably not.