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Queixada
''Queixada'' (jaw or chin strike) is a crescent kick in capoeira, like the inverse of a ''meia lua de frente''. This kick targets the side of the opponent's head or the opponent's chin (''queixo'' in Portuguese). Queixada is one of the most common kicks in regional capoeira. Capoeira Angola players rarely use queixada. History In 1928, Anibal Burlamaqui claimed in his book that he introduced the queixada, with the front leg kicking, to capoeira. In the 1930s, Mestre Bimba introduced the queixada, with the back leg kicking, to regional capoeira, likely from Asian martial arts. Mestre Pastinha referred to queixada as ''meia lua virada'' (turned ''meia lua''). Application Queixada with back leg kicking is a fast and tricky kick. It starts by swinging across the body, then comes back around. This can confuse the opponent and make them dodge in the wrong direction. This makes it a good kick to set the opponent up for another kick. Queixada can also be used to start a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Capoeira Techniques
The list of capoeira techniques includes kicks, headbutts, evasions, acrobatics and more. In capoeira, the main emphasis is normally placed on the interaction between kicks and evasions. Due to historical reasons, different capoeira groups use different names for the same techniques, or the same name for different techniques. Historical development Core techniques Mestre Pastinha considered the core techniques of the traditional capoeira to be the following: * ''cabeçada'' (headbutt) * ''rasteira'' (sweep) * ''rabo de arraia'' * ''chapa de frente'' (front push kick) * ''chapa de costas'' (back push kick) * ''Meia lua de frente, meia lua'' (crescent kick) * ''cutilada de mão'' (Knifehand strike, hand chop) It is documented that the majority of the core capoeira techniques, including ''rasteira'', ''rabo de arraia'', ''chapa de frente'', ''chapa de costas'', ''meia lua de frente, meia lua'', and many other distinct techniques such as scorpion kick (martial arts), scor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queixada
''Queixada'' (jaw or chin strike) is a crescent kick in capoeira, like the inverse of a ''meia lua de frente''. This kick targets the side of the opponent's head or the opponent's chin (''queixo'' in Portuguese). Queixada is one of the most common kicks in regional capoeira. Capoeira Angola players rarely use queixada. History In 1928, Anibal Burlamaqui claimed in his book that he introduced the queixada, with the front leg kicking, to capoeira. In the 1930s, Mestre Bimba introduced the queixada, with the back leg kicking, to regional capoeira, likely from Asian martial arts. Mestre Pastinha referred to queixada as ''meia lua virada'' (turned ''meia lua''). Application Queixada with back leg kicking is a fast and tricky kick. It starts by swinging across the body, then comes back around. This can confuse the opponent and make them dodge in the wrong direction. This makes it a good kick to set the opponent up for another kick. Queixada can also be used to start a serie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meia Lua De Frente
''Meia lua'' (crescent) or ''Meia lua de frente'' (front crescent) is one of the few principal kicks in capoeira. The kicking leg moves in the form of an arc before returning to its original position. ''Meia lua'' is considered one of the first capoeira kicks to learn. It is the foundation for others crescent kicks in capoeira, such as ''armada'' or ''meia-lua de costas'' (back crescent) or ''queixada'', which is like the inverse of a ''meia lua de frente''. Front crescent (or outside crescent) kick is seen in various martial arts. ''Meia lua'' is widely used in African martial art engolo, the forerunner of capoeira. Name The ''meia lua'' (crescent) gets its name from the semicircle motion the leg performs when the player executes it. Origin Front crescent kick (''okupayeka'') is one of the basic kicks in engolo, an Angolan martial art considered the ancestor of capoeira. There are numerous variations of the crescent kick in engolo: * front crescent kick (''meia lua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anibal Burlamaqui
Anníbal Burlamaqui (1898–1965), known as Mestre Zuma, was a Brazilian customs officer, poet, boxer and a prominent advocate for the sport of capoeira during its prohibition. He was one of the main proponents of the fighting-oriented ''capoeira carioca'', without dance, music, and rituals. Burlamaqui's efforts were part of a broader movement by educated Brazilians to destigmatize capoeira and promote it as a national sport. Life Since the age of ten, Anibal had been practising Swedish gymnastics, weight lifting and training on horizontal bars. He states that he learned Greco-Roman wrestling at eighteen, and later trained boxing. He was a true athlete and a very different character from the traditional cariocan capoeira of that time. Gymnástica nacional (capoeiragem) In 1928, Anibal "Zuma" Burlamaqui published the first capoeira manual, ''Gymnástica nacional (capoeiragem), methodisada e regrada'', where he introduced boxing-like rules for capoeira competition. The m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rasteira
''Rasteira'' is a foot sweep technique in capoeira, which usually counters high kicks. It is one of the fundamental techniques in traditional capoeira. ''Rasteiras'' are quick, unexpected moves that can disrupt the opponent's balance. Instead of meeting the kick with a block, the ''rasteira'' follows the same direction of the attack turning the opponent's force against himself. Mastering the ''rasteira'' takedown technique is a hallmark of an exceptional capoeirista. Along with '' meia lua de compasso'', rasteira is considered as a trademarks of capoeira. Like many other core capoeira techniques, ''rasteira'' was developed within Angolan martial art engolo. Capoeira sweeps can be done from crouching, standing, front, back, and fall positions. Origin The use of well-developed sweep techniques is one of the distinct characteristics of engolo, an Angolan martial art considered the ancestor of capoeira. The traditional engolo sweeps are: * crouching sweep (''okukondjola'') * s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestre Bimba
Manuel dos Reis Machado, commonly called Mestre Bimba (; November 23, 1900 – February 5, 1974), was a Brazilian capoeira ''mestre'' and the founder of the '' capoeira regional'' style. Bimba was one of the best capoeiristas of his time, undefeated in numerous public challenges against fighters from various martial arts. Bimba came from capoeira Angola, and taught Angola style. He reformed capoeira primarily in response to Burlamaqui and Sinhôzinho's attempts to strip it of music and African traditions, and transform it into a mere set of bodily techniques. On the other hand, he was unsatisfied with capoeira Angola of his time, because of its emphasis on rituals and ineffective kicks. Bimba encouraged adding new kicks to capoeira, as long as they were effective and incorporated into the basic footwork, '' ginga''. In declaration of his style in 1936, Bimba claimed to have subtracted two and added 15 kicks to traditional capoeira. Later, this number rose to 52 techniques fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kick
A kick is a physical strike using the leg, in unison usually with an area of the knee or lower using the foot, heel, tibia (shin), ball of the foot, blade of the foot, toes or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike). This type of attack is used frequently by hooved animals as well as humans in the context of stand-up fighting. Kicks play a significant role in many forms of martial arts, such as capoeira, kalaripayattu, karate, kickboxing, kung fu, wing chun, MMA, Muay Thai, pankration, pradal serey, savate, sikaran, silat, taekwondo, vovinam, and Yaw-Yan. Kicks are a universal act of aggression among humans. Kicking is also prominent from its use in many sports, especially those called football. The best known of these sports is association football, also known as soccer. History The English verb to kick appears in the late 14th century, meaning "to strike out with the foot", possibly as a loan from the Old Norse "kikna", meaning "bend backwards, sink ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (April 5, 1889, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil – November 13, 1981), known as Mestre Pastinha, was a ''mestre'' of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style. Mestre Pastinha was a brilliant capoeirista whose game was characterized by agility, quickness and intelligence. He demonstrated that even in his seventies, he could engage in acrobatics and outperform much younger capoeiristas. He chose not to introduce new kicks in order to preserve the original art. He wanted his students to improve the principal techniques (''cabeçada'', ''rasteira'', '' rabo de arraia'', ''chapa de frente'', ''chapa de costas'', '' meia lua'' and ''cutilada de mão''), which allows a proper ''jogo de dentro'' (inner game) to develop. Pastinha was known as the "philosopher of capoeira" because of his use of many aphorisms. He made it his mission to clearly separate capoeira Angola from the violence. Two principal Pastinha's di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Martial Arts
There are many distinct styles and schools of martial arts. Sometimes, schools or styles are introduced by individual teachers or masters, or as a brand name by a specific gym. Martial arts can be grouped by type or focus, or alternatively by regional origin. This article focuses on the latter grouping of these unique styles of martial arts. For Hybrid martial arts, as they originated from the late 19th century and especially after 1950, it may be impossible to identify unique or predominant regional origins. It is not trivial to distinguish "traditional" from "modern" martial arts. Chronology is not the decisive criterion, as, for example, "traditional" Taekwondo was developed in the 1950s, while the "modern" hybrid martial art of Bartitsu was developed . A large portion of traditional martial arts can be categorized as Folk wrestling (see the separate article), although in some cases a folk wrestling style and a modern combat sport may overlap or become indistinguishable from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capoeira Angola
Capoeira de Angola (Angolan capoeira) or simply ''angola'' is the traditional style of capoeira, the Afro-Brazilian martial art. A newer style, based on the reform of capoeira Angola, is called ''capoeira regional, regional''. However, the term capoeira Angola is somewhat ambiguous and can mean two things: * traditional capoeira Angola prior to its codification in 20th century. * contemporary capoeira Angola codified by Mestre Pastinha, based on an older one. Although mestre Pastinha strove to preserve the original art, he nevertheless introduced significant changes to capoeira practice. He forbid weapon and lethal moves, prescribed uniforms, moved training away from the street into the ''academia'', and started to teach women. But for mestre Pastinha, Capoeira Angola was, "''above all, fighting and violent fighting''". The practice of capoeira Angola is to cultivate chants, music and culture in addition to the martial art, and to keep capoeira as close to its African roots as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
