Re: African and Caribbean Martial Arts List. Originally Posted by Enson

Originally Posted by Enson

i really don't know much about capoeira apart from the movie "only the strong". i thought that was an awesome low budget ma film. anyway you can see a demo video of your art on www.airport-tkd.com
click on free videos and you can pull it up. i think they are actually in brazil which is cool. then again like i said i don't know much about the art. i didn't even think it existed in the usa.

Actually, there are schools all over the U.S. Our group, Grupo Capoeira Brasil, is one of the largests and most recognized groups in the world. We have branches in New York (four to be exact), Boston, Southern Virginia, North Carolina, Florida (Gainesville, Sarasota, and Miami), Two in Texas (San Antonio and Houston), Denver, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno and even in Alaska. Don't even get me started on Europe! It's actually more popular in Europe than in most parts of Brazil. And that's just our group. Capoeira is pretty much in ever major city in the U.S., and in at least 90% of the states. If you got to our site here in San Antonio, you can see video clips of our group. You can also see clips of our master, Mestre Jelon Vieira, the pioneer of capoeira in the United States.
By the way, "Only the Strong" is not a very good representation of capoeira. The one good thing it did was bring capoeira onto the silver screen and give it a bit of popularity. But it's actually not very good capoeira.
P.S. The guys in the video clip you offered are excellent gymnasts, but that's about all they are. There is, however, one guy in that clip, in black pants with a white stripe down the side, who is performing capoeira movements, complete with kicks. But the other guys would never be able to pull of those movements in a capoeira game... and none of them, except for the guy I mentioned before, ever kicked once. But, the are outstanding gymnasts. I think the missed their calling.

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