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As a lifetime bboy and adaptive martial artist I can confirm dancers make the best fighters. Capoeira is incredible when applied properly

A lot of people don't know but Capoeira also has headbutts, knee strikes and even throws, the bjj "baiana" was taken from Capoeira. It also has some weapons, the most popular being the "navalha".

In other capoeira styles/systems they have the black ropes and red corded ropes as the highest ranks as similar to bjj. Maestro Amen Santo comes from a capoeira corda rope ranking system that has its own originality which is varied and slightly different. Btw great interview on “Only the Strong” a movie classic that revealed to the public the skill-fullness, power dynamics, and beauty of this fascinating Afro-Brazilian martial art. It one of the first capoeira films that succeed in doing so.

It's good to know that Brazil has its strength in martial arts.

I trained with Mestre Amin in 2003 in Santa Monica!!! He's the best

It's funny I was actually thinking about asking you if you could contact Mestre Amen Santo and see how he's doing. Thanks so much for getting him as a guest 😁

Happy Birthday Mestre Amen Santo! 🎉🎉🎉😎✌️

5:44 I taught myself JKD, peekaboo boxing and I think I understand Muhammad Ali style of fighting I think; Ali said it best when he said he sticks and moves, sidesteps, all the while slipping punches and pulling his head back. I’ve also try to incorporate Capoeira into my JKD. And what I love about Capoeira is that it is not a stationary stance. The stance is called a jinga a combination of a side step and backward lunge continuously while blocking your face with your forearms, and I personally know that I would Jinga in an MMA fight instead of having a stationary JKD , boxing stance, or karate or Muaythai stance because I know I want to be a moving target because it is harder to hit. Jkd uses epee or fencing footwork movement with Muhammad Ali’s boxing footwork and so if I’m not doing the jinga I would be side stepping or circling my opponent sticking and moving probably using my sidekick

Good interview with Mestre Amen Santo. I remember seeing him on a television show back in 1991. It's great to get his information and history of Capoeira. Thank you Viking Samurai for another good interview with a martial arts legend.

Viking always delivers the best interviews and brings the best guests on.😃

You are the best David. 👍. I love Capoeira and the Sheldon Lettich's movie " Only the Strong ". Very kind of you. Nice interview. My wish is watch Only the Strong 2 with Mark Dacascos and Lateef Crowder directed by Sheldon Lettich again. As a 🇵🇹 fan, thanks so much. I belive 🇧🇷 People would like and appreciate this one. 👌

Grande Mestre Santo é uma honra ouvir voçe falar da sua carreira e esperiençia em Only the Strong. Valeu 👍👌. Seu fan 🇵🇹.

Parabéns 🎂 mestre Amen Santo, pelo seu mais recente aniversário de 58 anos! É bom ver você se mantendo forte, em forma e saudável, através de seus anos contínuos de treinamento árduo, bem como ensinando a Capoeira. Espero sinceramente que, se houver uma possível sequência, para o filme Only The Strong, você repita seu papel, como o mestre de Mark Dacascos no filme para seu personagem. Que Deus Todo Poderoso abençoe você e sua família 👪 sempre ✝️🕊📿🙏🕯🤲 Amém! Obrigado Viking Samurai por suas entrevistas contínuas e incríveis, como esta, Osu🥋🇲🇽🇦🇺!

Viking samurai, man first Sheldon, then Estaban, then Mark, then Paco and now Santos, keep up the good work boss. I'm diffanaly sending this video to my buddies, we are all big Only The Strong fans. Hell yeah! 👍

Seeing him brings back lots of memories! So good to see him in good health and thriving! 🇺🇸🚁🙌🏻

Hello, Viking Samurai. When i was a kid, i found out about Capoeira. It's such a fascinating Martial Art, because it's the opposite of what i learned, in TaeKwondo and Jeet Kune Do. Love this interview, because i didn't know anything about this man, aside from him being in that awesome film - Only the Strong. TERRANCE OUT

For all fans of Capoeira. Please you must watch : Only the Strong The Quest L'honneur du Dragon Tekken Kickboxer 3 Undisputed 3 Falcon Rising Besouro

I loved how music and dance were brought into the discussion. My roots are martial arts but I also play rock guitar and breakdance. It's beautiful how the arts blend into each other.

Before, I never considered capotera as a martial art until I saw the Quest movie. Great interview 👍

VIKING YOU'RE A MASTER AT INTERVIEWS.

this is one of the most visually pleasing fighting styles i've ever seen

It’s so cool I got to learn more about capoeira. It’s even more amazing it’s from Mestre Amen Santo! Such a cool interview Viking!

Happy Birthday Mestre Amen Santo 🎂🥳🎈

@ Viking Samurai, David, I don't know if you would or wouldn't be interested. But if you'd ever revisit Capoeira again, I have a friend, Mestre Sucuri, here with me in Tokyo who is a Mestre (master). As a foreigner who has made Japan his home, his school (Capoeira Zoador) has been operating for 24 years here. I also know another Capoeirista, Benjamin Moriniere, who owns a dojo (Moriniere Martial Arts Academy) in Okinawa and teaches MMA, Kickboxing, and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu in addition to Capoeira. Your interview with Mestre Amen Santo was excellent, and he already seems to have covered or given an excellent overview of Capoeira. You may not need to interview my guys. My guys are obviously not movie stars, either. But if you want to get back to roots and interview some martial artists, I'm recommending my guys because it is a big thing to operate a dojo as a business in a foreign land that's not your own. I think they would make for good interviews. Please feel free to reach out if you are ever interested. -Marc

Happy birthday, Mestre Amen!

took me years but i learned how to combine boxing with capoeira then i combined muay thai with it... its taken me about 10 years to combine but now i am very fluent with it .. its a passion that becomes unstoppable

Great interview. Cant wait for the next part(s)! I think its fascinating how he spoke about Ali and dancing. Movement is so important because it helps set up rhythm. We all know JCVDs history with balet, but also Jason Scott Lee was chosen to play Bruce Lee in Dragon because of his dancing background. They felt his mobility was best suit for jeet kune do. Another fighter right now that has a background in balet is Vasily Lomachenko. His fluidity is a beauty to watch.

Happy birthday mestre Amen

Viking you the official flame keeper 🤲🔥🤲

Great interview, thanks Viking and thanks Mestre , my only contribution is that we need to remember that capoeira like any other martial art have his interpretations\styles, with "regional" and "Angola" being the two great styles that diverge in philosophy and technic

Man, I will not be surprised if your next guest will be Arnold Schwarzenegger. I mean, through the time, you get all of them on your channel, so I think that it is not a problem for you to get anyone, if you really wanted to. Anyway, as always, cool video. Keep them coming!

My mother always tell me that age is not written on your forehead. Age is just a number. It's how you take care of your body which is important for a healthy long life and longevity in practice martial arts.

I first started learning from his vhs videos then I trained in San Jose. Badass dude

This is awesome! I’m so glad that David is checking and interviewing traditional practitioners, ask them about their skills and how their skills can be applied and the history of their styles. It’s so cool to see this respect, just like Ilan from Inside Fighting and Dan from Art of One Dojo. Hope to see a video of Bajiquan and I can suggest my teacher, Vincent Mei, to interview and discuss this Chinese style

Great interview with Mestre Amen Santo👏 Excellent job, Viking Samurai 🤺💪 His knowledge and experience in Capoeira is fascinating and he's in real great shape. He's a living example of a healthy way of life and benefits from martial arts 🥋💪👍👍✌️

Great movie, Santo was amazing. Lateef Crowder is another that's incredible. 🔥 interview

Capoeira is beautiful. He looks great 👍 a Healthy lifestyle goes a long way. I'm one of the only women I know that didn't freak our turning 30 and 40. When we're happy, healthy, at peace, and have achieved greatness, life is good. I have been using collagen forever. Mine tastes like crap. I'll check that out.

You should get Pat Johnson from Enter The Dragon and The Karate Kid Quadrilogy on your Show and do some interviews on Bruce Lee and The Karate Kid, along with the Unofficial Karate Kid/Bloodsport Crossover and his thoughts on Cobra Kai

FELIZ ANIVERSARIO MAESTRE 🎉 🙇🏾‍♂️

Loved this interview! I noticed that you used the word capoeira from my kids book that I myself and my students were featured in years ago 😅😂 love your channel 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

@Viking Samurai, Awesome interview with Mestre Amen Santos, U keep giving Us Viking Samurai Fans the Best of the Best in all ur Interviews, I'm Lovin it, thanks! God bless you, ur Family & Viking Samurai Channel. Will be waiting for part 2 of this Interview 🙏👍

Loved it! 😍😍Would love it even more if it had (Brazilian) Portuguese subtitles hehe

I think Bloodsport featured a challenger that fought using Copoeira.

It's a high energy art and style so I can see it keeping you in shape, I first saw ot in the ole TV series Kung Fu with Favid Carridine and it was a Black actor who know that art and he was a fighter that impressed the Caine character in that episode. Je was a master in tje episode and that was in the mid 70's It was one of the best episodes of Kung Fu , I have the 1st 2nd & 3rd season all in a dvd set.

Salve Mestre Amen!

Thank you for this interview!! Capoeira is an effective martial art and its great to have mestres drop knowledge about this art.

looks like this man has not aged at all since the early 90's..

Jim Kelly used some Kicks from that art in Black Belt Jones 🥋

Yo Viking Samurai If you can get Jimmy Hoffa You’re the man!

Great interview

Good work on keeping ur channel going

The history behind the origins of the art has my curious to do hw on it and see if there's anything I can take and make my own ⚔ Great interview Viking 👊👊👊👊👊🤟🤙😁

Only.the strong 🔥 🔥

Brazilian grand master!!!

I've always liked this interview and the one with mark dacascos

Great interview. But I really want to know, is the a reason why you don’t say the “ra” at the end of capoeira? It just sounds like you’re saying “capo’ei”. Always wanted to ask. Thought it was the best time to bring it up. Might just be the way you speak. Like “Choreography”. “Co-ography”… just like Phat Samurai. As you can tell, been watching your videos since the jump. Love the channel. Keep it up!!!

Another great interview!

Keep em coming!

If we are here… Kickboxer 3 as well… :))

Very insightful Great interview

This was fire!!!

The order of colors when it comes to ranking actually depends on the school. I've seen Mestres with a Red Cord. I've also seen Black. I'm only a White cord, lol

I've done 20 years or so's worth of Capoeira, but really cut back this last year. I really honestly hope that there is some capoeira like Mestre Amen talks about but to me.... well I'll leave it there I shouldn't be airing my linen online. Suffice to say I've washed my hands of grading systems and barely bother with larger courses these days.

Amazing!

Amen, not Oman, bro! great stuff

Tony Ferguson has probably use capoeira in a fight 😎 hes the only one Haha but the way they do that hook kick but lowering down to touch the ground as they turn can be very effective

i connect this style more with breakdancing. both were ways of dancing and fighting. And i cant help it and ive said it before,but this always reminds me of an episode of Bobs Burgers lol.. Thanks for the video David.

Sendo 🇵🇹 queria pedir desculpa ao povo 🇧🇷 pelos erros e crueldade cometidos pelo meu povo à partir do século XV. Nunca deviamos ter começado o trafico de escravos. Muitas desculpa sinto muito. Gostaria de pedir ao Mestre Amen Santo de voltar à participar em outro filme sobre Capoeira com outro incrivél mestre César Carneiro e com o Capoeirista Lateef Crowder dos Santos. E porque não um Only the Strong 2 de novo com Mark Dacascos e Sheldon Lettich ?

13:00 frequencies and vibrations.

7:00 If I remember my history lessons on the African slave trade, it seems to me that it is normal for a Capoeirista to use kicks very often because his hands were tied by chains, preventing punches .

That music is also a distraction. Kickboxer prove it

Mmm

In real life, this type of martial arts never made it to real life fighting, but it is incredible exercise for your cardio, balance and coordination.

If only people knew who the BANTU/Habiru slaves are... those same people taken as slaves all around the world. A very unique people who's history ahs been documented by many, but attributed to various other people.

That guy do not look like him self what did hellywood do to him? He seen change.

In conclusion, i have love for capoeira. The culture, songs, instruments, acrobatics, fellowship, & positive energy. Im not trying to sheit on Capoeira. It has many benefits. But my issue with Capoeira, is it may mislead people into thinking they can protect themselves irl with it. Thats why i have an issue.

Capoeira in a street fight = dead dancer. Please be realistic here. Ever see it used effectively in MMA?

In Capoeira they roll on the ground and do a move called " role". Its a way to move on the ground, it looks like an around the world in break dancing footwork. As u roll, u reach a v legged push up position where u can do a back kick at the opponent or a mea lua using that tiny bit if momentum from the role. From role u can do a roundhouse from the floor. I think fight science measured lateef crowders role to roundhouse power. Amazing how even in modern day martial artists dont want to admit their style is inaffective. Anyways its the role to different strikes that gives people false confidence that this style wirks irl based on a couple kicks that work ina slow paced non contact friendly cooperative game of capoeira.

To answer ur question. its a game, when someone throws a spinning heel kick, you get closer, before it hits u in the face, cuz u moved closer, u duck, it goes over ur head, u go with it, & fire a spinning heel kick in the same direction. So a beautiful COOPERATIVE flow of spinning heel kicks between 2 opponents barely missing each other. If i throw armada, u throw one in the same direction, if i throw mea lua, etc, etc. It is disguised as a dance that pretends to be a style that works irl. it only works in the circle cuz everyone plays by the same rules, everyone does the genga, everyone wants to play a beautiful cooperative game " jogo" so its a delusional safe place or circle if they think it works irl. Really disappointed how hw danced around ur question about its real life effectiveness.

I saw the the way he danced around ur question about does it work in real life. I am leaving multiple comments to amswer ur question as an insider myself of capoeira of 10 years. His analogy of muhamid ali were false logic. Ali was affective, cuz boxing is an art that actually works irl, so he can dance around. Bruce lee could dance around, cuz he was deadly as a martial artist as a person. But Capoeira diesnt work irl, so dancing around is a false analogy.

There not practicing anything. Everything he practiced he applied in the movie scene in only the strong, da fuk🤣 that wasnt real life, lol. Everything amen is talking about combat is based around fighting a non martial artist 100 years ago, but in 2023 it is a parody to say it works against modern day mma fighters ir effective irl combat.

Capoeira doesnt work in a real mma fight against trained fighters. The jenga doesnt work & handicaps u in real combat it doesnt fool anyone. This is cringe. I met dacascos & been to Mestre Amens roda at Capoeira Batuque im culver city. An agressive striking jogo "game" of capoeira is just fromt kicks " bencao's" and cheap low roundhouse sweeps for every predictable touch down spinning heel kick " mea lua". It gets really sloppy much like wing chun in real combat. I mastered capoeira for 10 years/ could do mariposa, armada dupla, folha secca, etc. I was high level & did Angola " slow & more combat focused " & regional capoeira. It's great history, culture, music, community, family feel , acrobatics, dance, songs, instruments, and lifestyle. But fighting irl is not one of them. Low level mma fighters may get tagged by 4 mea luas but it wont work in the upper levels. Anderson silva got beat cuz some dood did a flying tesoura to knee bar submission. But that tesoura was a party trick & doesnt mean capoeira works cuz 1 person beat anderson silva with a capoeira move to bjj knee bar. If Capoeira were so great u would see people in ufc doing the ginga, au, & role to mea lua . Irl, a mma fighter against high level mma doing the genga would get packed out doing that triangle pattern. Most capoeiraists do the genga to an armada & pause for 1 second, and freeze like a martial arts pose, but its really cuz capoeira armada is a dance, u need 1 second to conpose yourself, regain balance & back to the ginga. But most people on social media use that 1 second to look exotic, nit realizing thats why it doesnt work. The ginga fools no one & handicaps urself cuz u get stuck in ur own pattern. armada takes too long to recover from, de frente is a joke, multiple rapid fire mea luas against an opponent in the corner may work if the opponent sucks but will gas out the capoeirist . Also the ginga wastes energy in the cage. Its not a liw energy slow angola game, its the cage so ur ginga & movements must be high alert. Its like u hear someone is a capieira master in mma, then u watch their mma fight & see very little capoeira if any. If Anderson silva dies little wing chun traps for 5 seconds against the fence all the wing chun guys go wild as if thats his primary fighting technique. I hope one day capoeira, wing chun, pa kua, hsing i, guys admit their style doent work in the cage. This will get people hurt. Imagine a skinny tai chi guy 5"9 160 pounds thinking he cam beat a 6"2 230 pound buff prison gangster in a street fight using tai chi, wing chun, or capoeira. 🤦🏻