Africa : are there any African martial arts systems?

[jamesfrmphilly]

just curious, I'm too old for that stuff anymore.

 

[yaphet al-wynn]

Corparaeia(sic). I know I mispelled it. It was derived from an art of fighting with music(drums) that involves acrobatic moves using hands and feet as weapons in rhythm to the music. Associated with Brazil. Also forms of it-do not know the name of it-but is an offshoot of coparaeia in which hands and feet are used as weapons in the Carribean. Ever see the 'Mighty Quinn' starring Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend? Their characters used that style of fighting and the movie was set in Jamaica. And TV's Kung Fu in a episode with Moses Gunn as an Haitian that used that style.Maybe on the order of French-savate, fighting mostly with the feet.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

Corparaeia(sic). I know I misspelled it. It was derived from an art of fighting with music(drums) that involves acrobatic moves using hands and feet as weapons in rhythm to the music. Associated with Brazil. Also forms of it-do not know the name of it-but is an offshoot of coparaeia in which hands and feet are used as weapons in the Caribbean. Ever see the 'Mighty Quinn' starring Denzel Washington and Robert Townsend? Their characters used that style of fighting and the movie was set in Jamaica. And TV's Kung Fu in a episode with Moses Gunn as an Haitian that used that style.Maybe on the order of French-savate, fighting mostly with the feet.

i said African.
that is not Africa.

 

[Zoraida]

Capoeira IS African.

 

[jamesfrmphilly]

Capoeira IS African.

how come i never see Africans doing it?