With nearly two decades of teaching experience, Contra Mestre Tom Polonsky shares his Capoeira knowledge.
Having taught Capoeira to everyone from beginners to world champion athletes, it didn’t take long for Tom to start wanting to share everything he knows with anyone interested in Martial Arts.
You will find how to make the most out of your Capoeira lifestyle, and seamlessly integrate martial arts, strength, and fitness, all into Capoeira.
Information on how to improve your skills in any martial art through Capoeira is something shared almost exclusively here and it has helped countless people exponentially improve themselves.
The big deals is that capoeira is in fact a complete martial art against other capoeiras, and a tremendous advantage for MMA or any other martial arts. Capoeira combat is based on the unexpected, that said, in any combat situation, the winner is the one more prepared for it and at the same time, the one better on it.
It's good to see you and all the othe none black, none black slaves ancestry practice and teach something with black slaves roots and I wonder how hard you try to even have 50% of students of black people from these. It's not like things black people invented gets proper credits including pyramids, arts, music, science and technology. Like you taking this as your own with all these descendants of the very people that enslaved, tortured, amputated, raped men called bucking and linching to raping females as young as 9 years old to children including babies often times being with several men and several times of day, taking of their dignity treating them less than animals even though still to today slaves from Africa is most expensive commodity far more than gold. We have invented martial arts, r and b, reggae, jazz, pop music, etc, invented home security systems, refrigerated trucks and personal air conditioning system, sprinkler systems, elevator doors and systems, traffic lights systems, cctv systems, computer programming and computer engineering, telephone with bell, math for flight and astronomy that Elon benefits from, precision guidance of weapons to limit casualties, art of war, inventions in auto industry, etc, inventions in food including vegan diet peanut butter etc, and vast amounts of inventions stolen like every other black invention. When will you acknowledge and help fix the problem instead of being a part of it???
Shit i been training Capoeira 10yrs now 52 and Brazilian jujutsu omg these people don't know what they are talking about they need to train before they diminishes the art
Ouais 😂je n'ai jamais fait autant de pompes 😂mais la chose est que la capoeira est une arte martial, et utilisé par quelqu'un qui metrize bien, elle peut faire très très mal 😉🙏MERCI beaucoup pour tout.
If practiced in a practical way, most martial arts can work. Will you be able Ginga go into a handstand head kick like Eddy Gordo... probably not. Can you have a dynamic fighting stance, with fakes, set up kicks, punches, and elbows? Yes. A capoeira mestre fighting MMA is probably not going to fight like he would during the Jogo, with another capoeira practitioner, practicing. Ginga is to disguise the art because it was illegal to practice. The ginga should not be considered its base fighting stance (in a real fight) in my opinion. Even so many fighters with dynamic stances do well. Dominic Cruz. Take away acrobatics and the ginga and its still a pretty standard good martial art. Plud you'll get into great shape. Stack it with BJJ. You're well rounded.
Cách luyện CÔNG FU của Môn Võ này giống như Luyện Bí Kíp CỬU U NGHỊCH KINH bí truyền được cất giấu trong những hang động ở Sa Mạc Quan Ngoại của Trung Nguyên !! 这种武术功法的修炼方法，与修炼中原关爱沙漠洞窟中藏的九部义经密宗有异曲同工之妙！！
Traditional capoeira is a dancing sport. It was self defense disguised as dancing so their training methods reflect that. If they want to break out of this stereotype they need to make it a striking sport rather than a dancing sport. Coming from someone who loves capoeira btw. Im trying to implement it into my fighting style but its not just straight tossed in, im adjusting it to fit more into your average striking sport
IDK after all the years I still find bridge rotation and macaco to be way easier than all the previously mentioned moves. Also "macaco from standing position" was indeed scary to try but very simple to do. Then again, I had a break for over a year after that and forgot how to do it...😂 Handspin is only demanding to force yourself to spin the legs. However for me the cheat was to just lose balance while doing handstand, then the spinning motion happens on its own. But I admit that it's way less refined compared to a properly executed handspin. Overall it was curious to see how you rate the movements, even though I personally see them in a different order. Ty for the video.
We should hide the fact capoeira can be used in fighting, just like in the 16s lol, its like a hidden fighting style practiced by not many but effective.
Capoeira has some of the most powerful moves, but the thing is you are sacrificing your safety to defend to deliver a very impressive shot. Capoeira kicks deliver a greater striking force than Prime Mike Tyson on his best day.
Thank you very much for your channel, this year we started practicing capoeira with my wife, it is difficult but we learn little by little. Two of our children left and we joined. greetings from Chile.
A lot of the Capoeira kicks are extremely useful and kicking is mostly what Capoeira's about. And of course you should optimize other martial arts techniques in your fighting.
Would Capoeira be more effective in MMA if it trained like Shidokan karate? In shidokan karate they have a kyokushin karate gym next to a kickboxing gym.
I'm also Brazilian, as most of these people commenting here. My late father learned capoeira with the legend himself, Mestre Bimba. So I do have reasons to admire the art because it's attached to our origin. That being said, you can't negate the arguments by Icy Mike and Gabriel Varga. These guys know their stuff, they are qualified martial artists who have an unbiased view of every martial art, not only our dear capoeira. Capoeira is part of our culture and very important to us, but in streets and competition? It's not very effective (which doesn't mean it's unuseful, know the difference), that's the cold truth. The same can be said to many other martial arts: Aikido, Wing Chun, Taijiquan, and others. They can have specific techniques that are overlooked, but that doesn't mean they are all-rounder such as Muay Thai, Sambo, Wresting, etc. If you look at the top athletes, such as Demetrius Johnson, José Aldo, Khabib, Georges St-Pierre, Alex Pereira, they always practice the most traditional effective martial arts.
