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Originally Posted by Shinobi_Kokujin  most of the well established African arts are fairly complete systems. they include but not limited to nerve strikes, pressure points, take downs, grappling, & weapons
and in Africa in alot of villiages an cities. if you say your some kind of martial artist. your peers wont just say hey thats great, lets sit down an have a cup of tea an discuss
they say.....ok....show me. basically a challenge if you show your a good fighter cool. if you get your butt kicked then your just a joke not to be taken seriously.
in some neighborhoods, pitt fights, wrestling matches, or other martial arts bouts are used to settle differences such as guy loses his girlfriend to other guy or other kinds of disputes.
being in this kind of enviroment where you have to train realistically and fight is what makes some of these arts better
my capoiera history is kinda shabby......have to check up again |
I don't go around telling people I've a martial artist anyway.
I know it's all subjective, but in my opinion more practical/proven does not make one art better than another, it just makes it more, well, practical.
One of the reasons I love capoeira is because it
doesn't have all of this whole 'look at me I'm a fighter' sort of thing (well it does, but it's usually all in good fun) as you described above.
It's got a great sense of energy and fun about it, not the whole 'brutal pit fights' image. Although saying that, it did when it was in the favellas, back when capoeira was played with razor blades and knives.
It would be quite interesting to see a tae kyon vs capoeira match. Although some rules would have to be set methinks...
It's quite interesting to see the difference between the arts, since as far as I know, the basic stance for capoeira (the ginga) you keep your weight forward and rock you weight to your back foot rhythmically, whereas tae kyon you seem to keep your wait back and occasionally rock it forward.