Video: Capoeira: Brazilian Combat Dance
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of acrobatics, games, dance and accompanied by national Brazilian music. Those who practice this kind of exotic art claim that capoeira is not a sport or even an art, it is a whole life.
Capoeira originates from the African national dance subculture. Initially, she did not carry the combat aspect, which appeared much later, in Brazil. Capoeira originated in Brazil when slaves from Africa, including Sudan, Angola and Mozambique, began incorporating elements of martial technique into traditional African dance.
Participants form a circle, a kind, into which capoeiristas can alternately enter and show their skills, either play musical instruments (for example, the berimbau, a Brazilian folk noise instrument), sing, or demonstrate martial skills in sparring. The fight-dance is full of fast and dexterous acrobatic movements, jumps, feints, kicks and head kicks. Less commonly used are punches and elbows.
Capoeira is a combination of dance, kickboxing and karate. Jinga is one of the main elements of fight dance. Jinga is a three-dimensional movement that has three phases. The movement is performed at a speed set by the rhythm of the music. The main element of jinga is unpredictability, which allows you to lunge from any position and deliver a sudden blow to the opponent whose attention you have put to sleep.
Capoeira has evolved into modern hip-hop, break dance and fiery Latin American music.
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