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- From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: What/Where is Sinawali?
- Message-ID: <Jan.28.11.15.46.1993.17524@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:15:46 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.103900.21082@yang.earlham.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <1993Jan25.103900.21082@yang.earlham.edu>, youngjo@yang.earlham.edu writes:
- :Does anybody know what Sinawali(sp?) is?
- :I've heard it's a brazilian martial art, and I think it
- :might be the style used in the movie "The Mighty Quinn".
- :
- :Apparently, it uses a lot of spinning techniques from the ground, and
- :looks like a cross between northern-style kung fu and breakdancing.
- :
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- It sounds like you're talking about Capoeira, which is the only
- Brazilian martial art I know of. They practice to musics, and it is
- almost all kicking and spinning, hands on the ground a lot for
- balance.
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