I had a blast working with you Kevin! I was told that I should count how many times you say, “That’s cool” 😂

When you were an unarmed slave trying to escape your armed lord's abuses, it makes perfect sense to use all that trickery and to try to escape as quickly as possible! His lesson made me realize that so clearly: what an amazing teacher!

Professor? That's Mestre Malandro! And he is one of the greatest American Capoeiristas of our era! Humble and deadly! His sweeps have taken to the ground many times over the last 25 years! Valeu Mestre Maladro! Thankyou for the educational video Kevin!

“Going with the flow” is I think the best description of Capoeira

Wow, a descendant of Bimba! This guy is capoeira royalty! The takedown reminds me of tani-otoshi - you see it a lot in some TCMA as well. Did not realize there was so much grappling in capoeira. That dropdown to kick, OMG. This is why capoeira scares me the most - they have a whole other vocabulary of movement Thanks for the great vid!

That cartwheel, dropping, handstand, down kick thing at around 11:30 (I apologise i dont know the name) was stunning to watch

Capoeira guys are always insanely fit its awesome. Their techniques are full body movement and takes endurance. Learn to fight, stay in shape and also have alot of fun doing cool looking moves its great.

O bom capoeira induz seu oponente a cair numa armadilha. Muito bom mestre por demonstrar a verdadeira marcialidade da capoeira.

As a practioner of Capoeira I maust to say that this is one the best videos about this art made by a no-capoeira practioner.

It's not the art style that will keep you safe in street self defence, its the competance of the practitioner. A good fighter (regardless of tyle) with experience in reading opponents and situational awareness is going to fair better than someone who isn't. Capoeira IS a beautiful artform though, the history and culture behind it is great.

Capoeira is beautiful. Its a mix of dance and fighting.

Capoeira é muito bom. 🇧🇷

Professor Malandro showcases why I believe capoeira is one of the best arts for learning how to escape a situation.

This is the first time I have seen a good and positive video made by a non Capoeira practitioner

That body sweep is in karate, judo, and kung fu too. (I think its also in Silat, but I'm not sure.) Its one of those universal techniques that every art includes because its so natural for human movement and it flows out of a situation that happens so often. The jinga step also keeps you constantly primed to pull counter.

I like some of the ground techniques and takedowns that Capoeira has more than the acrobatic flips and kicks. I think a lot of people arent even aware how effective it is from a low position. The negativa is similar to something I have seen in Silat.

the best example and explaination of Capoeira i've heard thus far, good info.

I know you can make anything work bc you’re a warrior. Capoeira and Silat have alot in common. Especially considering lower kicks. I’d love to know where fighting cultures met at whatever point in time. But I feel we’ll never know bc history is intentionally being erased. Martial arts are beautiful. The topic should be shown more attention. It’s where we all come from. We all decent from slaves and warriors. This fact should not be ignored. But pride should be shown for all. Not just chosen groups according to appointed fads.

As a brazilian I am happy with the gracious respect that our root cultural martial art are been treated. 🙂

We need to do a Capoeira-Taido Crossover

This was dope to see the subtle ways one can use capoeira defend themselves and surprise an attacker at the same time. Well done 👏🏾👏🏾

I've always liked capoeira as one of the best "sideboard" martial arts--which I hope doesn't come off as an insult. I mean that I wouldn't train primarily in capoeira for either self defense or combat sport purposes, but I would love to have a lot of its moves in my arsenal, especially for unorthodox positions.

This is very informative. You can see how good a teacher Prof Malandro is.

Capoeira has devastating kicks, especially the techniques that use the heel bone. It was so efficient that in the past it was banned in Brazil for some time.

Such a great breakdown of what capoeira is AND it’s practical usage! PLEASE bring him back! I’d like to see more! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💪🏾💪🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾♥️

so butter smooth !!! that's very functional in self defense indeed. His movement is effortlessly chain from one technique to another, like water, what a master !!!

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that the Mandalorian (Lateef Crowder) is a Capoeira practitioner.

There's something mesmerising about Capoeira. Thanks for rhe video, that was great.

This is the best martial arts demonstration I’ve ever seen! Thank you!

Capoeira gives you the strength to do anything

This was an amazing video fr. Love how much y’all bounced off each other and gave different angles and explanations on each move.

This is so helpful. Thank you Professor Malandro for sharing your knowledge.

Wow, this is a great explanation of the practical side of Capoeira. If this was taught, I think Capoeira would be more popular. I love Mr. Lee's openess to other arts and eagerness as a never ending student.

Malandro is very graceful.

This guy is great. Very knowledgeable. I love capoeira. Great for balance and flexibility.

That was awesome to see some practical applications. I've been watching this capoeira class before my wing chun class and it made no sense until this video. Thank you Kevin for inviting the other master for a demo. What a cool martial art AND, I love the drumming.

Great class. Thank you both!

whatever you practice doesnt matter. what matters is if you train to fight , period. I dont care if you do any kind of grapling , muy thai, boxing, whatever. if you dont traing to fight, nothing you practice will be good. people keep focusing on styles instead of the intent of the practioner. make videos with the title,"Can practicing martial arts casually work for self defense?"

Best video about the potential of capoeira I've seen until now!

Brabissimo, altissima qualidade, irmao, GRANDE AXE!!!!

On a street fight is exactly where capoeira shines.

Wow. Really amazing video. I like capoeira a lot and get mad when so many times people get it worng. Very nice of you to ask an actual master to show and explain. Subscribed and saved this video to show others. Thanks.

Just found your channel, and wow, I'm impressed. You have such a chill energy to you, and I absolutely love the content.:)

One thing to think about is - doing jinga strengthens your body from the ground up. Then you ad the cartwheels - total body conditioning!

18:07 - a higher-height variant of that ground kick would also be effective but it is at a smaller target - to the head, while you are on the ground, but you must snap your leg straight up to the head while on the ground to get that kick right. That kick is called an "escorpiao" or scorpion kick. Usually you kick on either leg, depending how good the leg is. Additionally, you can turn your back to the opponent in cocorinha (squat) with two hands on ground, wait for the opponent to come over you and then do the "escorpiao" to the face.

People don't understand capoeira is a way to educate the body, to gain speed, develop smartness and fitness. There are very many tough capoiristas, but it is not because of capoeira, it is because of themselves. Toughness is a thing beynd capoeira.

Thanks a lot. I've been waiting so long to see a collaboration with capoeira and other martial arts. Well done and respectful. 👍

Absolutely Beautiful! This is my favorite channel today!

Keep on going Kevin! I would love to see you grow in your mix martial arts journey!

i definitely saw some UFC fighters use capoeira kicks and KO ed their opponents. it works on the ring. even better on the street since there is no rules and fighters can be free doing whatever dirty tricks they want.

What a great explanation, I'm amazed!

I believe capoeira has a great foundation for grappling and offers the richest set of ukemi techniques. Very underappreciated martial art.

I just love the fluidity of movement. I always wanted to learn Capoeira.

Capoeira Regional! Beleza rara! Salve Mestre Bimba!

that's so cool movement, I really enjoy this video, thanks Kevin

Capoeira is such a cool and unique martial art. I'd love to practice it one day.

Kevin Lee let's go!

Awesome stuff.

The music at the end got me ahahah. 😂 Thank you both for making this great video. 🙏

really cool explanation of capoeira, make it very interesting

I do Capoeira, but also did many other martial arts. Capoeira is great for flexibility, fighting fitness, body awareness. What it isn't good at, and indeed makes your regular practice a liability: you do timing with someone else (fighting requires you to break timing, not get a rythm); there is little awareness of problems of exposing your neck and head; it doesn't make you aware of rear attacks; the minimal grappling, while making you comfortable to have body contact, doesn't teach you any proper close contact grappling (pretty necessary in all self defense). Saying all this, I do think useful for training kicks, and indeed have used a bancao in self-defense, also if you're accurate with kicks, you can get a knock out. As a disclaimer: one-on-one fighting with punches and kicks is not self-defense, its combat.

Thanks so much for sharing

This was awesome! Same takedown in taichi!

I love this!

Mestre Malandro brabissimo

I’ve been training capoeira for a while and I would like to say this was a great video! Vingativa part was very well explained. But for me I don’t think I would be able to pull off doing it against the punch. In capoeira training that move is mostly practice with countering an opponent’s kick. If the opponent has actual experience and can punch with good form, my untrained eye would not be able to react to it as that takedown. Chapéu de couro is probably my favorite kick. I also do think that this kick can be used in a fight. I liked how he was talking about faints for making the opponent flinch to a vulnerable position because there’s a lot of that aspect in a capoeira game (jogo) as well. He was a great teacher and I really enjoyed this video. Axé!

I was impressed!!!

Great coach!

Fantastic,he is pretty knowledgeable of the Art and Dance form 🤸📸

Capoeira é uma das melhores lutas de todos os tempos aqui no Brasil é lendária 💪🏼🦵🏼🇧🇷

Wow great video Guro Kevin 🙏☯️😎❤️🌈🔆❄️⚔️🪨🔥😂💪👊🦶

Great job! Great Video About the Martiality of Capoeira. Greetings from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. (Google translator)

DUDE! I can totally see the Vendachiva workin in "Da Streetz"!

You two gentlemen are Bushido and highest level . To share arts is awesome .

I think Systema, Sambo & Krav maga are best for the streets. I took Greco Roman Wrestling, Sambo, Tangsoodo, Systema, Cool video though. Dan Theodore aka Wolfman MMA fighter trained 35 years mixed in Systema, Sambo BJJ, wrestling, Numerous kinds of karate. 🙏🛐🥋God bless

Capoeira has a lot of good to offer. Just like any martial art, it has its holes, but youre training athleticism in a combat context, with another person who is not standing still(at least in the games(roda)). The mestre my instructor learned under has a blackbelt in judo, so the takedowns were more emphasized in our classes. Though i wasnt really good at them, even though inliked them. To me, a lot of the standing movements reminded me of boxing, just more exaggerated. But really, capoeira movements are more akin to shadow-wrestling.

i 100% thought they were gonna spar then i remembered how powerful Capoeira is

Very interresting!

the one kick he kept throwing from the ground not Mea Lua Cumpasso but the other one is called Martelo no Chão. Hammer from the floor.

This is so interesting

J'adore,merci

“That’s cool “ ❤

I think you can!!!

I wish I went to those capoeira classes when I had the chance, it looks like a really interesting martial art

yo his movement is so fluid, damn

Thanks

Please more capoeira videos exchanging kicks.

THATS AWESOME CAPOEIRA 😀

muito bom!

Wow

Love the fact my African brother and sisters created a martial art by dancing. Imagine telling your boss you got ass beat to a guy bboying lol

I would love to see bajiquan applications!

what a good video

Awsome

Very Good.

A capoeira é ótima para defesa pessoal. É uma arte marcial que proporciona uma excelente capacidade física

Capoeira is probably better than most modern and traditional martial arts for street self defense

100% yes

Wow, wait a minute! So he came straight from Bimba's linhagem? THAT'S AWESOME!

Cool