Thanks for the response, and by the way, your English is great (MUCH
better than my Portuguese!). I really do love the fluidness of your
art, as well as the concept of using your economy of motion in order
to set up your next move. It's very similar to Capoeira in that way.
I can't wait to see more, and to try blending it with my
Capoeira "play." Should make a beautiful outcome, not to mention a
deadly one. --Ellis


--- In non-traditional_stickfighting@yahoogroups.com, "innervortex"
<InnerVortex@...> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>