A reader sent me this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiF_Zqjezw
That tries to explain what Peneiraçao of old Carioca looked like.
Am I impressed? I am not. As you probably know, my interpretation of Peneiraçao is different:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUbc7ufa728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4aFIN7jIQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqS4pDlFkH8
But for the benefit of my readers, I will do a little analysis.
First, it is undoubtedly a progress that people finally admit that something like Peneiraçao existed in Capoeira Carioca.
I remember when people just stood like boxers with their hands up, calling it 'Capoeiragem Carioca'; and on wikipedia, they probably still claim Peneiraçao was a 'strike'.
So it is great that people finally - some 6 years after I published my first video showing Peneiraçao ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4aFIN7jIQ ) - admit that Peneiraçao was the basic step used in Capoeiragem Carioca.
We just now have to find out what it looked like. But that will be hard, because...
It does not take a combat genius to realize that all these guys in the video (mostly actors, I presume) who supposedly use "Peneiraçao" do not even do the same thing with their legs! These are different steps!
So does that mean there existed many Peneiraçaos? Or that every guy did his own rendition of 'Peneiraçao' as the mood struck him? That does not sound like a good fighting system to me.
Or does that mean the actors are trying to mock something they themselves never used?
Let us forget for a moment that trying to learn Capoeira Carioca from a movie is like trying to learn kungfu from the 'Kung-fu: The legend continues' show; and let us minutely analyse the mechanics of the steps shown in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiF_Zqjezw
a) (0:00-0:17) - Monkey+Seduction1+LightLegs mechanics, intermitently
This - and only this - step has anything to do with real Peneiraçao. The actor on the right is trying real hard to imitate real Peneiraçao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4aFIN7jIQ
but fails, because real Peneiraçao is hard.
Watch him closely! He even uses LightLegs intermittently, but he probably does not have enough athleticism to pull it off, so he stumbles like a bear from the rear position.
(That happens when a non-athletic person tries Peneiraçao. Try our Peneiraçao sometimes; it is hard and it is meant to be)
Note he cannot even pull off a simple frontal Raspa from his 'Peneiraçao'; instead, he shuffles from side to side, and then lifts his leg awkwardly.
(I assure my readers what we can throw a real frontal Raspa from our Peneiraçao).
Still, it only goes downhill from here.
b) (0:17-0:25) Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs mechanics
Now as I wrote, the actor clearly cannot apply any real fighting technique from his botched Peneiraçao (0:00-0:17); so instead, he changes into a samba step: Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs.
This step was very probably used in the 'hard sambas' (sambas duro/pernadas), leg-wrestling games popular in Rio; themselves degeneration of real Batuque footwork.
Still, you can throw bandas from this step; so the actor naturally switches into it when he is required to show a "banda" (frontal Raspa).
However, samba-duro step is NOT Peneiraçao; as it does not protect you against opponent's attack and cannot be used in fighting! But we will get to this.
So again: (b) is not Peneiraçao. It is samba-duro step.
c) (0:27-0:47) Monkey+Littlebird legs+Littlebird hands mechanics
This one is a real type of ginga; but not Peneiraçao! This is the basic step of 'Tiririca2 Paulista' system. You can also throw mostly bandas from it; read my texts on Tiririca2 Paulista.
So again, (c) is not Peneiraçao, and you cannot apply any real Carioca techniques from this step (Cabecada solta, Pantana etc.). It is a basic ginga step, but not of Capoeiragem Carioca, but of Tiririca2 Paulista.
d) (0:47-0:50) Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs mechanics
This is the same mechanics - and thus the same step - as (b) - samba duro step. It is not Peneiraçao - again, it cannot be used in fighting and you cannot throw any real Carioca technique from it (except bandas - for which it is designed).
e) (5:18 - 5:24) - Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs mechanics
Again, the samba-duro step; not Peneiraçao. Note how invariably, they throw frontal Raspa from it.
f) (5:26 - 5:38) - Bear+Seduction1
These guys do not use ginga at all; instead, they use the clapping sleep-inductor (Bear+Seduction1), also seen in Mestre Valdemar's video.
So no Peneiraçao to see here, too!
The rest of video is worthless, of course.
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So to sum it up: The video 'explaining Peneiraçao of Carioca' shows:
a)very botched Peneiraçao
b)samba-duro step
c)Tiririca2 Paulista step/ginga
d)samba-duro step
e)samba-duro step
f)clapping sleep-inductor
Only the first 17 seconds have anything to do with Peneiraçao; the rest is mostly samba-duro.
(And it makes sense; samba-duro survived well into 20th century; while real Carioca - with Peneiraçao - did not).
The video is eye-wash!
If you want to be sure, you can also try to compare historical drawings of Peneiraçao from 1900's with these samba-duro steps from the video; and then with our Peneiraçao; to see which one matches better. Here, I have an article full of them:
http://razorwire.wz.cz/ohno.htm
But proof of the puding is in the eating, in this case, in fighting.
Does any of the actors throw a real Carioca fighting technique from their samba-duro step? They throw stupid lumbering frontal Raspas.
I know we can throw all techniques I show from OUR Peneiraçao. But can you throw Cabecada solta, Corta capim, Pantana or Pantana de lado from these samba-duro steps?
But what is more - can you fight, can you move around, can you throw jabs from the samba-duro steps?
Do not believe me, try it for yourself - try all the samba-duro steps that are supposedly 'Peneiraçaos'; and if any of them is as combatively useful as our Peneiraçao, please let me know.
Experiment! Do not be fooled by some old movies!
Ask yourself: If you were in a street mass battle - would you like to be doing any of the funny samba-duro dances shown in the video?
If you were surrounded by enemies, would you be doing the samba dance in their midst, static, flat?
Or would you like to use our Peneiraçao, that allows you to move around like lightning, zoning backward, even escaping if needed?
(Yes, you can use Peneiraçao even to just keep you safe in multiple opponent scenario; keeping distance from all opponents at once. There is no other guard I know that can do that).
True Peneiraçao has a high-level combative function; its backward slide allows you to manage the distance in a fight and move around the battlefield.
If you do not have the backward slide, you are a f#cking sitting duck, the opponent can just close the distance and grab you or do any thing he likes to you.
The samba-duro steps shown in the bulk of the video will let you be grabbed very easily - because they are not Peneiraçao, not for fighting; they are samba steps!
Try it!
But let us get even more real. These are pictures of Peneiraçao used with Carioca weapons - straight razor and short club. There is no dispute these pictures show Peneiraçao - one of them is even called 'Peneiraçao' (1907).
First, notice the similarity between the steps in both pictures; and notice the similarity with our Peneiraçao - especially the leg lifted to the rear, which is never present in the quasipeneiraçaos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B4aFIN7jIQ
But let us try something else. Use the samba-duro step shown in the disputed video, which they say is 'Carioca Peneiraçao'; and try to do it with a razor or a short club in your hand.
Try it!
You will quickly find out you f^cking cannot use the samba-duro step with a weapon! It is mechanically impossible.
But Peneiraçao WAS used with weapons; the above pictures are a proof of that.
(On the other hand, our Peneiraçao can very easily be done with a weapon in your hand - just like on the pictures. And hell, it then even looks like on the pictures!)
And I do not even talk about actually fighting with the weapon. Again, try these supposed 'peneiraçoes' for razor/knife fighting; and let me know how you managed.
This is a clean proof that what they show in these old movies is not Peneiraçao (while what we show probably is Peneiraçao).
To finish it off, this is a video of Peneiraçao with a stick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRsc4hwn92s
Let me conclude on a personal note. On one hand, it is good that people are starting to accept the existence of Peneiraçao.
On the other hand, it is sad that people will now believe Peneiraçao is this ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMiF_Zqjezw ).
Because this, dear reader, is a dead end from a combative perspective. It is a bunch of silly dances you cannot even throw basic fighting techniques from.
And now people will be led to believe this was the combat-effective Peneiraçao of old Carioca - but in truth, they will be fooled with a samba dance!
While there is a real combat system - built upon real Peneiraçao, LightLegs, RubberLegs, techniques that push human body to the maximum - right at their fingertips.
With real Peneiraçao - a martial technique, not a samba dance - as its center.
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Excursus - more sorry attempts at Peneiraçao
Recently, I found this video, again, that is supposed to show 'Peneiraçao'.
https://www.instagram.com/ramoncatonho/reel/DGl4IS1pgvk/
Okay, this is not even the samba-duro step of the old videos (Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs); it is.... something (Bear+Littlebird legs); bear-samba perhaps?
Meaning, you cannot even throw a Raspa from this (as you - at least - naturally could do from the samba-duro step).
It is absolutely combatively useless.
It is an insult to real Capoeira Carioca Peneiraçao!
Excursus - LightLegs:
The principial thing all these supposed-peneiraçaos lack is LightLegs! Real Capoeira Carioca was built on LightLegs; real Peneiraçao is built on LightLegs.
So if your 'supposed-peneiraçao' does not use LightLegs, it is not Capoeira Carioca!
Yet another video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CUwc9ojHEA
tries to imply that the Peneiraçao of Cyriaco's partner(1909) on the photo is the same as the samba-duro step from the 1958 movie.
But if you study the photos closely, it proves the opposite - that they are different. The archetypes are distinct; but it suffices to look at the position of their pelvis.
In the 1909's Peneiraçao, the fighter's pelvis is locked forward. This is unmistakable sign of him using LightLegs; and thus, doing real Peneiraçao.
(He is also in his front toes - again, as in real Peneiraçao).
On the contrary, the actor's pelvis from the 1958 movie is pulled inward; so no LightLegs; just samba dancing.
It is quite easy to prove - just try to put your pelvis into the 1909's photo position - and you will get our Peneiraçao (Monkey+Seduction1+LightLegs)
Put your pelvis into the 1958's movie position - and you get samba/samba duro step. (Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs)
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