And some examples in rodas. There’s a well timed sweep at 1:30.
A rasteira is a low sweep to hook the bottom leg while an opponent is kicking.
A tesoura is your basic scissor sweep.
A lot of capoeira is leading your opponent into the position to take them down or expose them to a strike. It plays into the idea of malandragem (trickery and cunning) when fighting.
Awesome man, obrigado
[quote]Fiction wrote:
I’ve seen this a few times and thought the same each time. MMA brah had his hands so far away from his face, he deserved that kick to the chops.
I can see how you can add this funky stuff to your game here and there, but I’d put more of my training time and dollars into BJJ and Muay Thai. Thats just me I guess. Carry on.
[quote]admbaum wrote:
I’ve seen this a few times and thought the same each time. MMA brah had his hands so far away from his face, he deserved that kick to the chops.
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Yeah, he obviously hadn’t been trained very well, what with his reaching down away from his face at all of those kicks. It was just a matter of time before his opponent threw a high kick and caught him, or faked the kick and caught him with a punch.
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I can see how you can add this funky stuff to your game here and there, but I’d put more of my training time and dollars into BJJ and Muay Thai. Thats just me I guess. Carry on.[/quote]
No, it’s not just you. I don’t think that anyone here (or any really good coaches/fighters) are going to argue that the majority of your time should be spent practicing cartwheel kicks instead of more high percentage/priority skill sets like boxing/MT/wrestling/BJJ. That’s not to say that it’s worthless or will never work, but it should only comprise a small amount of your training time as it’s lower percentage.
For sure. But it’s kind of like a flea flicker or double reverse in football. In the right situation you can catch them off guard and score big, but I wouldn’t base my whole offensive scheme around it. Nice to have a couple trick plays though.