It’s common knowledge that ‘fancy’ arts like Capoeira would never work in the ring. Too bad nobody told this guy.
I know, one knockout doesn’t mean much, other than never underestimate your opponent. I think the fact that this worked is a tribute to the winner’s athleticism. I’m not holding my breath to see this at the elite level. I guess there’s a time and place for everything.
That was a clean knock out. Sometimes fancy stuff works.
Like one time, in band camp…I mean…in sparring, I actually did #30 to my opponent. Don’t ask me to do it again or put it in my regular arsenal. I knew it would work on that one guy in that situation.
This Capoeira dude was ready for a fight and the opponent wasn’t use to the fighting style. It can happen to anyone (likely me) facing an unorthodox fighter.
dm#30?
I have only done the “Drop toe hold”, then rear naked choked the opponent out, in real life situation.
LOL!!!
well, I don’t think I’d call what this guy did “fancy stuff”. If you can do that kind of stuff (which I can’t cuz I never really tried nor worked on it. I never even really learned to do the “wheel sweep”.), then it can work, so it’s not “fancy stuff”. If you can do those continuous Wheel Kicks, with speed and power, and keep moving closer to your opponent when you miss, then it can be very effective and powerful. We use to call something like that a “Whirlwind” or a “Helicopter”. As you know a Wheel Kick can be very powerful and very difficult to defend. The guy defended the 1st but not the 2nd. What he really needed to do was either move in on him and get all over his back, jam him, OR go down, under the wheel kick, and go after the plant leg.
When I was a low rank kyu, I forget what, I could do somethings easily (like a back kick straight back to the head, which I haven’t been able to do for years – tear apart my quad or something), and other things not at all. So I worked and worked and worked on a kick, which I called the “Parabola Kick” (which is standing in a side stance, with both feet close together. Then just letting the rear leg/heel come up behind you and behind your front leg heel, just grazing past it, and pivoting around backwards and bending over (as this Capieora guy did), and just letting the heel come right up straight up the opponent’s front to his head, and then arching down again, in a tight narrow “Parabola” arch (if you remember your H.S. Geometry). It “was” very sneaky and very effective. But very dangerous, cuz you can really nail the guy in the head.. I was sparring my instructor (4th dan, fast, skilled, an incredible fighter), and he never let any student hit him. So I threw this kick, and missed kicking him in the head w my heel by a fraction of an inch. He was shocked. All he said was “nice kick”. So, my point is, is that this type of straight leg, spinning around, wheeling around, Wheel Kicks (or whatever name you call them), can be quite effective, and if they land with the heel – Yikes!!!! lights out, or you can kill a guy.