Balton said:
Most of it looks like Capoaira
Yeah, it is Capoeira, the clueless guy who put this on a website as Ninja flips probably didn't know what he was talking about.
Notice most of the moves on that video have nothing to do with actual fighting and are more about acrobatics and dance. It's a shame that generations of people bought up on Tekken think that Capoeira is a from of combat, because it isn't.
Capoeira isn't a martial art in the sense of the word that most of us think about them, its actually a form of dancing/acrobatics...the fight moves are purely ritualised and just for show.
I've never seen ANY Capoeira clubs where there is any actual contact - and my girlfriends brother is a Capoeira teacher, added to the fact that th beach infront of my house has three Capoeira schools on it.
Still, pretty good film (apart from the godawful music). I can never get tired of seeing people run up walls.