Hakeem Alexander from HypnoAthletics posted an article last week about the how to derive the combat effectiveness of Capoeira. By changing your frame of mind from "How do I do this move?" to "When and why would I want to do this move?", Hakeem speculates that your Capoeira will be more effective in a real fight.
Capoeira Contemporanea: Salvaging Combat Effectiveness from a Badly Organized Circus with KappaGuerra
If you are seeking to use something in combat, you must "take what is useful and develop from there", rather than just doing "trikz", or learning moves without considering how to apply them. As I noted previously, capoeira is anything goes, but depending on your objectives, you must decide where this unlimited supply of movement will go, where it may take you, and what effect it will have on the outcome of your objective.
But consider that this may be the greatest trick that capoeira has ever pulled. Because after many centuries, many people only consider capoeira to be a dance more than a fight, and usually underestimate its value as a fighting form. This may be the undoing of anyone foolish enough to let their guard down when someone begins to ginga before, or, during a battle.
If this is the case, capoeira is the ultimate in strategy as many are still deceived by its "malicia" and "mandinga", into trivializing its effectiveness as a deadly martial art and self defense practice.
Capoeira Contemporanea: Salvaging Combat Effectiveness from a Badly Organized Circus with KappaGuerra
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