The other Brazillian Art

[Koruptor]

Does anyone here practice Capoeira ??

I really like the moves and the flips that they do.
How long does it take to back flip and somersault??

Has anyone used capoeira it in a real fight??

[Chopstix]

i dont do capoeira, but i do breakdance! a lot of the moves are taken from capoeira..

[Chill Daddy Ace]

It all starts with the JINGA.

[Ryu (non-working password]

get down with your bad self, Chopstix

[rockinronnie]

Hey Chopstix - didn't breakdancing go out in the mid-eighties ?? Is it making a comeback ?

Ronnie.

[rockinronnie]

Koruptor - Sorry my friend, I know very little about Capoeira. Only what I've read in BB magazine.

Ronnie.

[Chopstix]

hehe..
yeah, i hear about how it was very popular in the late 70s and early eighties..
but its big now with youth like around my age..
its just now its changed a lot from what you guys know as breakdancing, a lot for acro batics, gymnastical moves,
(we call them power moves), and things like that..
its a new school thing.. guys that did breakdancing back in the day wouldnt be able to do what we do..

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

Yo so you break Chopstix? Back in the day when I was in grade 7. My boys and I used to break a hella lot! It was popular in LA from grade 7-8 and now its sort of in a stalemate. In TO I dont really see any good breakers. Im really rusty in my moves, but I still can pull off some good top rock and handspins.

Chop, what are your favorite moves?? You have a B-boy crew?

[Chopstix]

hey yella tiger! what bout bag a trix? they hella good! i like to bust top rock and some downrockin, but i my speciallity is a flare 90, some people call it a air flare, but its more of a flare 90.. airtracks make people go crazy aslwell! right now i like to do superman mills and airtracks, but i still have toprock.
hmm.. you live in sauga, you ever reach abyss? they let people break there..
oh, nope, i dont have a bboy crew yet.. i dont think im looking for one, dont wanna create hate between crews..

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

ABYSS????? Im going there next weekend!!!! Yo we should hook up some time and spread some MMA and B-boi love there!
That place used to really really suck with the 12 yearolds going there. But I hear these days the place is jumping! Your outta my league man, maybe I was comparable to you in grade 7 but now???
Blech!

PS Downrock or (styles) was my thing too. Windmills took me FOREVER to get. Right now its a lost art for me...

If you can pull of flares and a-tracks, I give U MAD PROPS!!!!!!!!!!
Mucho respect!

[Ronin]

What?

You crazy kids...

[Chopstix]

yeah man, started bout three years ago man, started with the basics and mills and flares.. gotta the air stuff now.. im still looking for a bboy name! yeah, i wanna reach abyss too, but i need my g2, which im getting in jan, cus i live all the way up here in markham, right by scarborough!
one day well hook up and talk mma, girls, and clubs man..

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

haha im such a gay rapper

Hey how about B-boi Chop???

Short for I chop all ladies
and I also chop you down!
try to bust a move?
Boy dont make me frown!

Markham? Holy shit your out there? Damn if you live there, u might as well go the extra 20 miles and go to TO.

Yeah man, we'll hook up or sure.....what do u train in again?

[pharochuck]

chopstix, actually a lot of the stuff young guys are doing is closer to locking as in poplocking or popping as it was called on the west coast, where as breaking was popular out east. i see young guys in the hip hop spots now locking and calling it breaking. in fact the guys that played in the movie breakin' were lockers but the mainstream just lumped everything together and gave it one generic name

[YeLLa-TiGeR]

Yeah popping is REALLY hard to do.