look! what i've found

[ravin66]

http://fight.bodoglife.net/thevault/185-podson-vinicios/

[Zangado]

nice find.. but however awesome it is watching a capoeirista do well in MMA, i can't help but wonder if it's straying too far from the art, going from ritualized combat to actual combat. then again, during beginners class last night CM Galego while talking about the martial arts aspect of capoeira said that MMA is the future of martial arts..

i'll give it more thought, and it's still a sweet vid, gotta look this guy up..

James

[Forca]

cool.

[ProfinSac]

Is Capoeira an "art" opposed to a martial art?  Who ever said it was only ritualized combat?  Is kung-fu non-martial because it has forms? The forms do not stray from kung-fu but rather focuses on elements that are essential.  Make no mistake, a well trained student of kung-fu will utilize movements from those forms to grant you a beat down.  Apply the same analogy Capoeira.

example:
http://fighter-arts.net/portal/index.php?id=11&L=0&backBlog=id=100%A7L=0%A7p=1&contr=h@28
*****

I haven't seen Mestre Barrao's son in years.  Lets just say he has grown quite a bit since the last time I saw him which ironically was at Berkeley.  The last time I saw him play, he was a fairly scrawny teenager and I saw him have the most off the hook game with Mestre Beicoila's son who was also a scrawny teenager at the time.  I must be getting old.

Prof.