Hi, capoeira is a very beautiful martial art and lots of people
practice it here in portugal too.
There are more jogo do pau videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/group/jogodopau
and i will add more as soon as they show up.
As you can see, yes, jogo do pau is very fluid, but that only happens
when the blocks are well done.
Ill try to explain in my terrible English.
When you block, you use the bouncing of your stick to start a new
attack, thats why it is very fluid, and in demonstrations and semi
controlled sparing you can play for long time, just like that, using
the bouncing and striking back with lots of speed.
Of course in real life or competitions that happens a few times, or
lasts only a few seconds until some one makes a mistake or one of them
surprises the other.
What i want to say is that this fluidity comes from strong contact and
reaction, and well use and direction of energy in motion.
hope it could help,
im also doing a website about jogo do pau, but its mainly in
portuguese so it might not help much, here: jogodopauportugues.com
Cheers!

--- In non-traditional_stickfighting@yahoogroups.com, "ELLIS"
<ellischasemichael@...> wrote:
>
> You know, the more I see the JDP stuff, the more I like it. I really am
> lovin' the long stick in JDP, mainly. I study Capoeira (a brizilian
> martial art) which incorprates short stick/club play in it. The Doyle
> style bata stuff fits like a glove for the medium stick/cane. And I
> really think the long stick stuff would incorprate well into my
> capoeira, as well. See, Capoeira is a art that is always in motion.
> there are no static postions at all, your always moving and I think
> that would translate well into the JDP stick play (from what I've seen
> of it), as it seems to always be in motion as well. I like how, to
> generate more power, you slide along the lenght of the stick which
> would probley help whith the long stick in closer quarters as well. I
> was wandering if someone could elaborate a bit on JDP as a whole, as I
> don't know much about it. Love the clips, keep 'em coming.--Ellis
>