Capoeira Moves and Games : Learn the Capoeira Ginga

[hakka9899]

i need to know if is hard to learn capoeira i´m 31 years old

[yannarena51]

Eu sou brasileiro e treino a 8 anos, sou brasileiro do rio de janeiro-rj, esse tutorial ta muito bom, abçs do rio :D

[iAMcooooooool]

Such beautiful movements. What a great art.

[G0odf3lla]

EDDY GORDO

[tekken3y0sh1m1tsu1]

As a Tekken fan i find Capoeira the one of the most fascinating, diverse and original fighting style there is. The nature of the style is one of the best and the flow is what amazes me. I agree that Tekken was the influence for Capoeira becoming well known worldwide. Apart from Yoshimitsu - Eddy Gordo is one of my favourites!

[Jacob5689]

what got me interested in capoeira is the movie Only the strong with Marc Dacascos

[nfarnham2008]

not sure if it is just me, but two things brought out my interest in capoeira, tekken, and some jean claude movie with him using capoeira

[akrongoblin13]

YAY!!! finaly some american who know jean claude van dam!!! Good man and tekken is kick ass btw.....I wish there were more people like you

[nfarnham2008]

@akrongoblin13 lol, well I like him, and all of his movies. Mainly the older stuff. And yes tekken is awesome. Eddy gordo, christi, hwoarang, baek, Bian Fury

[akrongoblin13]

My fave are Eddy/christine, Alisa, Bruce Irvin, Sergei Dragunov, Yoshimitsu, and Steve Fox

[nfarnham2008]

@akrongoblin13 Yeah steve is a beast

[monkeywolf]

@nfarnham2008 Its called The World's Strongest (the Jean Claude movie)

[DDlocsta]

this should be a sport in schools ;]

[LulzImpossible]

Too dangerous...We'd ahnilate each other ;]

[diztorcion666]

mine has it

[nichlasz]

it is now...they are teaching it in my school and it owns man

[libra1196]

omg!

i wish they teach me in my school too!

[NewZealfighter]

@libra1196

if there is not school,no excuse

buy some DVD's,watch youtube

start your own capoeira study group.Does not mean your experts but that you started a study group to learn what you love

[cmbkfn]

@DDlocsta it is, im taking it :)

[air130]

the guy with smiley face shirt doesn't seem to know what he's doing. but i know he does

[hmanxy]

I think you could learn more from watching a video game on fighting.

[surfdigby]

I agree. If I could throw fireballs at people, or batter people with a spinning bird kick then nobody would mess with me. HA DO KEN!

Can you imaging someone starting on outside a bar, so you just turn him into ice and shatter him? I don't understand why more people don't just copy video games instead of going to the effort of actually training.

[hmanxy]

This is one of the greatest posts I have seen yet, ever.

[hmanxy]

If anyone really thinks that capoeira is effective, they need to have their heads checked. While someone is doing that they would just get tackled and beaten to a pulp. I guess if you are into dancing, then it is something you should pursue.

[MegaEsqueleto]

i disagree with that sort of opinion, ´cause i would mean that, for example, a karate fighter woud do kata in a middle of a street fight, which is, of course, a load ´o bull......

before posing try reading articles ´bout capoeira, it´s history and the reason it looks like that. You might learn something.

[hmanxy]

The guy in the video says that the movement helps protect his face from the kicks. Look, I have no problem if someone likes gay dancing, that is their purgative. But don't pretend like this style has what it takes to be a real martial art.

[MegaEsqueleto]

look, i respect your personal opinion of capoeira. you don´t like it- that´s fine. But, insulting something, which has been around for a few centuries, and therefore people who learn capoeira- with that i cannot agree. And, as a comment- this is just a trainingg movie, after watching this you should have the basic idea of how is should look like. There are a few more aspects he didn´t mention, fofr example the upper body balance, and more. done properly it helps protect your face from kicks.

[shota777]

dat my PURGATIVE! :B

[SimCity4IE]

Dude, it was banned in the 30s because it was considered too brutal. Bandits attached blades to their feet. Imagine getting an armada to the face with that?!

[hmanxy]

They actually banned the practice because they were afraid that men looked like gay lords.

[ReggaeZal]

how the hell does capoeira make men look like gay lords. its a martial art for petes sake. dont go around calling something gay just because youve seen it for the first time.

[hmanxy]

It's more of a dance than a martial art. If a person flailed around like a red headed circus monkey with a few kicks I guess you might consider this a martial art. Let's say hypothetically that I see a gay parade for the first time...I can't call it gay?

[TheWentzMachine]

The parade itself can't be gay. you can call anything you'd like gay, you'll just be incorrect as much as you'd like.

[FIREFOX274]

hes calling it gay cause he cant do it of course

[grobmiller]

im planning on taking lessons but my fear is that right now i dont have much upper body strength. do you gain akot from practice or should i incorporate some weight lifting on the side because i want to learn all of it, the kicks and the flips, i know its a long road but im willing to do it

[FF7gurl]

ive seen this before awhile back on tv, or rather something about it. i always thought it was pretty intresting and would be something id like to learn but i know it would be extreamly difficult for me to do cause ive always had trouble with sports and what not.

[cannos09]

wow im learning capu-what ever its called it looks cool

[sasukeuzumaci]

learn the name of it

or at least look at the title bar at the top of the page

[deltaman510]

i learned that on school :P

[painandpyro]

Yeah it pretty obvious capoeira's been out longr than tekken, considering tekkens only been around for what, ten years or so? But im suprised, most the characters have styles based off martial arts, but christies and eddys stance looks almost excatly like this. Neway i was thinking about learning a little capoeira, but im not sure...It takes alot of upper body strength rite?

[Claybird121]

You gain the strength as you go.

[blademanx]

read up its been around since black slavery! in brazil

[michielgrillet]

Capoeira is a martial art -_-

And thank tekken? It's like saying thank "only the strong" for introducing capoeira to the world, but actually it's the other way around. There's a lot of people that want to pretend to play capoeira without knowing the history, without respecting other players.

People say thank you tekken, I say damn tekken, disrespectful wannabe's are exhausting.

[stinkybean118]

i agree

[painandpyro]

All rite people, its just a video game, chill out! lol But yeah sum peopl do give tekken too much credit

[ashtopitoa]

u have 2 put ur leg back more nd be lower!!!!!!!!

[jmckaskle]

Here is a better ginga - youtube(dot)com/watch?v=EbL0r6­l626s

[Cegoninho]

i like angola but i prefer regional.

[cabose34521]

It Doesn't matter if it's better, either way if you practice it will look the same as any other Ginga.

[jmckaskle]

This ginga is the ginga imposed on capoeira contemporanea by Mestre Camisa, I believe, as an "efficient," "scientific" ginga. If you practice your ginga in order to ginga, it will not look like this paint by numbers "ginga."

[itsladyluck]

it looks like break dancing meets yoga

[TopFighter622]

and a game

[Morhighan]

It's intimidating, so I think I'll try to learn it.

This is all B.B.'s fault. (Death Note)

thanks for putting this up!

[sweetkisses900]

dub worry mine looks pathetic

[shiromaarenas]

haha mine will blind you it worse than all of yours

[eppes]

tekken rocks

[shiromaarenas]

lol I learned about capoeira because of tekken :D

[Spoon91Star]

eddie gordo!

[shiromaarenas]

and christie!! Too bad my allowance can't handle it... it'll take year to earn 3 months classes

[looker768]

so let's watch it on youtube instead....lol

[Dabmbboyz]

shut the fuck up do you know how many fucking idiots say that!?!Jesus Christ capoeira has existed way before tekken's creation.

[boredguy]

you should give Namco and tekken credit for introducing Capoeira to many other people then. Capoeira became familiar to many audiences because of it.

I'm one of those audiences who were awe'd by Eddy Gordo's movements, thus I was introduced to Capoeira. And I love it! :D

[HalfLifeHalfDead]

@boredguy same here, mate, same here. :)

[flyroscoefly]

@boredguy haha I used to choose Eddy Gordo all the time...because my name is Roscoe Gordo. ;] I love Capoeira because of it! Deeng bringing back the memoriess

[hansieRZ2]

@boredguy yeah man! I always play Eddy or Christie :P

[Engulf85]

lotsa ppl just like myself last time around had no idea there was such an art, till we've seen those characters doing those crazy cool stunts in tekken. thus, it's quite simple to deduce that people would often associate the game more than the actual name of the art to describe it. i dun see where u're gettin with dis rant. besides nobody said tekken invented capoeira. u love capoeira? we do too, but we dun knw dat it's called dat way and u do, so take it eazy ok smartass >:-/

[colinwired]

I think anyone can do it. You will not have the most advanced skills when you start, but with time that improves. Anyone, any age, just start within the limits of your flexibility, strength and agility, and dont force things, you'll get all the great skills soon enough..its supposed to be a lifetime thing, so no rush.

[capoeira1998]

Capoeira:)

[Venganceownz]

honestly i think its a good martial art and all But wat i dislike about it is that not any1 can do it u have to be very flexible,strong,agile etc. but great technique

[hedran09]

I disagree.. I've seen fat people, skinny people, and 5 year olds; both male and female do a hell of a lot of the capoeirist movements. It's takes hard work and dedication to learn the techniques, but anyone can do it if they try. Flexibility is something anyone can work on and fix. But as long as you have more strength / agile to mass ratio than 5 year old kids.. than it's easily doable if you work on it. The point is: nobody should doubt themselves, if this is the art for you, work toward it.

[brentpieczynski]

There are other martial-arts such as Tai Chi, which is a nice thing with the difficulty being, some people not being near where Tai Chi is taught. That item with You-Tube is this comment is not likely to be listed anywhere near the comment I'm commenting on, so people will lack a sense of context, when reading this.

[samarasayshi]

they don't do it too well, they should keep lower to the ground and use their legs more.

[mirrorXmask]

YEah...Mestre Demetrius who supervises the Capoeria school I'm in likes us to get into lunge positions during ginga.

[CapoeiristaDK]

Ginga is a feeling, not a movement - but if it was a movement it would look something like this.

[christopher101]

Does anyone else besides me find this hard to learn?

[mirrorXmask]

I heard it takes months to master, just practice it everyday :)

[NatosREekeiEinai]

this is funny

:D

[sigrino]

YES! yes it is )

[kkmultes]

bacana

[badtreefood2]

i can do ginga,but i cant get the rhythem

[AckroBabu]

Ginga reflects your personality... So, it makes sense if you cant find a rhythem. Find your inner self first, then you work on developing a Ginga, because all it is a physical representation of YOU. Ginga, in some ways is the trickiest thing to learn if you not intouch with yourself and most people aren't.

[mugss90]

wu shu drunken boxing??

first, it's wu shu drunken kung fu (not boxing)

second, capoeira is completely different

[LamTangGar]

actually Zui Quan is the style of wu shu and is translated as either drunken fist or drunken boxing.

[wootageboy]

this is just like wu shu drunken boxing

[Dreddenoth]

good but Ginga is essy to lern meybe i find somthin more hard