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Fitness - Monday March 5th - 3rd Period
The mats were back down on the floor in gym class, with Yondaime sitting at the front by a chalkboard with the words Capoeria written on it and a television. Yondaime grinned at everyone as they came in and handed out packets as they came in.
"Good Morning everyone, I hope that you all had a good break. This morning we’re going to start our section on a martial art from Brazil called Capoeria. Now this is truly more of an art than a fighting style, involving music, passion, more discipline and control than I’ve seen in any other fighting style."
Yondaime paused and picked up a packet for him to glance at as a reference as he talked. "Capoeria uses some of the tactics we used previously in jujutsu, mainly only the strikes. However, unlike jujutsu, in Capoeria you never actually hit your opponent," he smirked wondering how likely that was to happen though in this class. "Capoeria is very ritualized, spiritual and played more like a game than a fight. True, you have your attacks and defenses, but they are more to intimidate and confuse than to hurt. The point of the game is to make a move so that your opponent can respond; you want to make them respond incorrectly. Fighters are encouraged to talk to each other to try and throw their opponents off more." Yondaime didn’t go into how a person actually won, they didn’t quite cover that in any of the materials he read, so he just assumed that it stopped with both fighters were tired, or the music ended.
"Now because this style of fighting is much more complicated than it seems we’re going to spend the class today watching a video and going over the hand out before starting to actually practice this next week."
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"Good Morning everyone, I hope that you all had a good break. This morning we’re going to start our section on a martial art from Brazil called Capoeria. Now this is truly more of an art than a fighting style, involving music, passion, more discipline and control than I’ve seen in any other fighting style."
Yondaime paused and picked up a packet for him to glance at as a reference as he talked. "Capoeria uses some of the tactics we used previously in jujutsu, mainly only the strikes. However, unlike jujutsu, in Capoeria you never actually hit your opponent," he smirked wondering how likely that was to happen though in this class. "Capoeria is very ritualized, spiritual and played more like a game than a fight. True, you have your attacks and defenses, but they are more to intimidate and confuse than to hurt. The point of the game is to make a move so that your opponent can respond; you want to make them respond incorrectly. Fighters are encouraged to talk to each other to try and throw their opponents off more." Yondaime didn’t go into how a person actually won, they didn’t quite cover that in any of the materials he read, so he just assumed that it stopped with both fighters were tired, or the music ended.
"Now because this style of fighting is much more complicated than it seems we’re going to spend the class today watching a video and going over the hand out before starting to actually practice this next week."
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