How Do You Do A Handstand In Brazilian Capoeira Martial Arts?
“GRADUADO ADVOGADO: Hi, my name is Advogado on behalf of Expert Village. We’re going to talk about your basic capoeira handstand. In capoeira, you’ll notice there are a lot of cartwheels, handstands, spinning on the hands. There’s a lot of movement that requires you to have a little bit of upper-body strength. You do not have to have a lot of upper-body strength to do those movements, but you do have to have is enough upper-body strength to hold yourself up on your hands and for at least for a couple of seconds. Okay, so in most capoeira classes, that’s part of the warm-up. You’ll see a lot of handstands and what you want to work on, you want to–if you can’t do a handstand when you start capoeira, you want to do little handstands, build up, but your long-term goal is you should be able to walk across a room on your hands. And for most people, that usually takes a lot of time, you know, maybe a couple of–up to a couple of years to be able to do that and control that movement. For me,
