Capoeira moves and Basics

Some dirty techniques to take down a real opponent. Some Basics? Perhaps you are familiar with the Afro Brazilian martial art of Capoeira. You can envision the circle of fighters, all clad in white, with a band playing strange sounding instruments embedded within it. In the center of the circle, two figures dance and spin, moving in time with the beat, fluid and graceful, performing something that is part acrobatics, part dance, part fight. Spinning kicks are launched faster and faster, each coming within a hair’s breadth of the opponent, but both wheel in time and in perfect synchronicity such that nobody is touched, nobody is hurt. This is capoeira, the traditional Brazilian fighting style, and in this article I’m going to discuss the fundamentals of its practice. More here on Capoeira moves