Motto: "Tiririca - (informal) adjective: hopping mad, extremely angry"
Tiririca2 Paulista was a capoeiragem system used in old Sao Paulo around 1920s. (Note: I call the system Tiririca2 to avoid confusion with Tiririca, the banda)
It was probably a quite small, simple system; that centered mostly on using bandas.
It was created by adapting Batuque (a leg-wrestling-game that used mostly bandas) so it could be applied in a street combat. And thus Tiririca2 Paulista was born.
Unlike Carioca or Recifeana, Tiririca2 is not a battlefield system; it is civilian, one-on-one self-defence.
Unique tactics of Tiririca2 is making the opponent mad with rage("tiririca"), so you can take him down more easily and harder than normally. This probably gave the system its name.
1) Basic fighting tactics for using bandas
From Tiririca2 ginga (Monkey+Littlebird legs+Littlebird hands)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi1kqosPsYA
use Low tiririca
https://youtu.be/AIawSMCb8O8?t=30
to drill into opponent's side-of-thigh; making him mad with rage("tiririca"); and immediately go into a banda. This will result in a hard fall, as his body will be tensed up from anger.
You can use almost all bandas used in Batuque or Carioca
http://razorwire.wz.cz/Batuque.htm
but only in their basic version (ie you cannot do RubberLegs or other high-level bandas in Tiririca2).
This is both jab and guardbreaker of the system.
2) Additional techniques
You can also use Scraping cabecada
https://youtu.be/AIawSMCb8O8?t=58
similar to a banda, put your head against his chest, press and spin face up. If you do it after angering him(tiririca), this is a lethal technique! It is only shown for historical reasons.
Note that to execute it, you must use what I call "Iron octopus spine skill".
Or use Paulista Corta capim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9k5_Zp8U9A
this one is dangerous too if you do it properly. Using proper archetype (Snake+(Horse+Child legs)+Horse feet), the opponent will have hard time lifting his foot to escape your sweep; and getting swept will enrage him so much(tiririca) he will fall very hard.
Note that you can do normal physical Corta-capim from the footwork (Snake mechanics); but this one is useless, as it is easy to escape and the fall is soft.
You can also execute Pantana tiririca, Paulista version, from Tiririca2 ginga - twisting both feet into opponent's face. (Carioca and Batuque versions only twist one foot into his face).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKWyTTgTMoM
However, this one is also dangerous, as it makes the opponent cripple himself from anger.
3) Special bandas
Some bandas can have special effect when done from Tiririca2 ginga:
- "Evil-laugh" Banda de lado (+Littlebird hands)
- "Jealous" Banda cruzada (+Littlebird hands)
- "Triple" Banda tracada (when you do right Two-sided tracada from left Low tiririca)
Be careful though, the 'special effect' means that the banda takes the opponent down so hard it might kill him or break his spine! So I describe it here more as a warning so you do not use it accidentally.
4) Grab defence - Cross-position
As Carioca has Clube-X, Tiririca2 has the Cross-position you can assume to disrupt opponent's grab and make him mad with rage(tiririca); then continue with a banda as described above.
Instead of setting the opponent up with some nerve attack(nerve strangle etc), you set him up by making him angry(tiririca).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JLQxQvZxVc
Again, this position flows naturaly from 'our' Tiririca2 ginga; but is clumsy from what other people show as Tiririca2 footwork.
5) Ambush
For ambush, use Paulista Fig-4 rasteira
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctqnmdFSMzU
Done using proper mechanics the opponent will not react to it; in fact, he will help you in taking himself down.
This not the common Fig-4 rasteira (Snake); that is quite combatively useless, in my opinion.
For some reason, people today try to use Fig-4 rasteira as a part of the game, but that makes no sense: It does not flow from the footwork and is easy to escape.
Note that unlike in the Snake version, using proper mechanics as we show, you can jump up while pulling, greatly increasing the pulling force; but then this rasteira has potential to kill.
6) Hat entry
From the proper Tiririca2 ginga we show (Monkey+Littlebird legs+Littlebird hands), you can naturally do the 'hat entry' - taking your hat from your head and pushing its opening against opponent's face
https://youtu.be/USY04djymoo&t=398
- and immediately follow with a banda.
(Note that the mechanics of this entry - Littlebird hands - further supports that our Tiririca2 ginga is the right one; not the one shown in the video; because this entry just flows from 'our' Tiririca2 ginga; but is clumsy from the 'video' Tiririca2 step. Try it!
Also, there were no hand jabs/strikes in Tiririca2.)
Note that Hat entry is a great way to enter the Scraping cabecada: After blinding him with your hat, you can immediately put your head on his chest and spin to take him down.
Unlike from 'tiririca' entries, the opponent will probably survive this fall.
7) Tiririca escape/cooldown
Note that when you play a game or a duel of Tiririca2; and the opponent uses Low tiririca or other tiririca/anger inductor against you, making you angry; you are vulnerable to a takedown (banda/cabecada).
So you immediately descend onto your hand in the rear; a bit like higher Resistencia.
https://youtu.be/USY04djymoo&t=414
In this position, you cannot get taken down. You wait low until your anger cools down; and then get up again and keep playing.
Keep in mind this is not an evasion from strikes as in other capoeiragem systems; this is a way to prevent bandas while you cool down before you get up again.
8) Punch counter
Proper Tiririca2 ginga (which we show; Monkey+Littlebird legs+Littlebird hands) allows even countering opponent's punches; while angering him(tiririca) so you can immediately take him down.
However, the mechanics of doing this is too complex for this introductory article.
9) Hopping entry into Cruzada
As noted below, Banda Cruzada was probably the favourite banda of Tiririca2; it even has a special entry built-in in the Tiririca2 ginga:
With your right leg crossed in front of left leg, hop-scotch on your right foot towards the opponent (Baby Horse legs).
This freezes and unbalances the opponent, so you can hop close to him and immediately throw him with Cruzada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0rS-msxJQ4
Conclusion
As noted, Tiririca2 Paulista was probably a very simple system; created as a way of using Batuque in street self-defence.
Unlike Carioca or Recifeana, it is a not a battlefield system; it is one-on-one self-defence. (Also, unlike Bahian capoeira or Batuque, it is not primarily a combat-game)
Its primary techniques are various bandas, set up by angering the opponent ("tiririca"), making him easier to take down.
Still, some of the techniques are unique and interesting in the way they manipulate opponent's anger to take him down harder.
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Excursus - High tiririca:
This finally explains High tiririca 'banda' of decadent Batuque:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlGwHUI1ZpQ
Low tiririca, the basic entry of Tiririca2 Paulista system; making the opponent mad by drilling into his thigh, see above - later got adapted into High tiririca (making the opponent mad by drilling into his ear) and used in what became of Batuque.
At that time, Batuque degenerated into various Sambas duros/Batucadas/Pernadas, by removing the original Batuque footwork(Monkey+Seduction1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdIWoln70PQ
and replacing it with samba-like footwork(Crane+Seduction1+Littlebird legs).
You can do High tiririca from samba-duro footwork; but you cannot do it from Batuque footwork; so High tiririca does not really belong into Batuque and its inclusion was a symptom of degeneration; added in the age when Batuque already degenerated. (By adapting Low tiririca to Samba-duro footwork).
Excursus - how to start:
For me, the easiest Tiririca2 technique is simply - use right Low tiririca to drill into opponent's thigh, making him angry; then immediately follow with right Banda de frente.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXEQmjhHbC0
It is quite easy to take down the opponent once his body is stiffened from being angry("tiririca").
While Banda de frente is the easiest one for me; I believe the most popular banda in Tiririca2 Paulista was Banda cruzada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkWbDMnHqTE
Excursus - bandas:
As you see, Tiririca2 presents another way to enter into bandas; while the repertoire of bandas stays almost the same.
In Batuque, a game, you use bandas from its special footwork; and attack in triples.
In Carioca, you set up bandas with hand jabs.
In Tiririca2, you set up bandas by making the opponent angry.
And there are some bandas even in Mestre Bimba's Nemer system, Bahian physical-game, Besouro's system and Recife capoeira. However, each system has its own method to enter them!
So Bandas are the core of capoeiragem; the core that most of its systems share.
And they all originated in Batuque.
Unfortunatelly, most modern capoeiristas cannot do even a simple banda (Raspas do not count).
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