Capoeira
Readers have written to me a number of times asking about capoeira, the Brazilian marital art.
I have just embedded a trailer from a new Brazilian feature film showing the art being practiced.
Go to my videos to have a look.
Here's the story behind the art: Slaves in Brazil (and slavery was only abolished in 1888) were forbidden to carry weapons of any kind, including clubs. Accordingly, they developed a way of fighting that uses the strongest muscles in the human body, the thigh muscles - and that became capoeira.
This film is called Besouro.
A capoeirista, as he progresses from neophyte to master, takes on the name of an animal, bird or insect. The hero of this film, the protagonist, took the name Besouro, which means beetle.
I have just embedded a trailer from a new Brazilian feature film showing the art being practiced.
Go to my videos to have a look.
Here's the story behind the art: Slaves in Brazil (and slavery was only abolished in 1888) were forbidden to carry weapons of any kind, including clubs. Accordingly, they developed a way of fighting that uses the strongest muscles in the human body, the thigh muscles - and that became capoeira.
This film is called Besouro.
A capoeirista, as he progresses from neophyte to master, takes on the name of an animal, bird or insect. The hero of this film, the protagonist, took the name Besouro, which means beetle.
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Comment by I. J. Parker on June 30, 2009 at 8:26am
- Is that "marital art" or "martial art'? You had me going there for a few lines. :)
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