Hello and welcome to Capoeira for beginners, class number two in our class today, we'll learn Cocorinha.
Our first defense and meia lua de frente, our first attack.
From this point on all of our exercises, we'll be dealing with the basic attacks and defenses capoeira
has two offer.
The cocorinha is basically a squat.
That gets us out of the way of attacks beginning in the paralela position.
We squat down, keeping our back straight, our heels on the ground and placing one hand flat on the ground
behind us and to the side when placing our hand on the ground.
We want to make sure to place our hand flat on the ground, spreading our fingers apart for maximum
balance.
We want to maintain eye contact with our opponent at all times, keeping our gaze forward and upward
while the other hand is placed over our head for defense in all defenses when protecting our head with
our hand.
We want to keep our elbow low as to not obstruct blows, but rather get out of their way in order to
let the physical dialogue continue.
In the second version of the cocorinha, we will place both hands over our head.
This we will do when you are not certain of the direction of the attack.
Step two, entering cocorinha from vision.
in this next step will do three gingas and on the third ginga enter into Cocorinha from their back
to ginga
When entering into cocorinha, you will almost always enter forward for two reasons.
One, in order to close the distance of an attack, providing us with better protection two when entering
forward, we impose a greater danger to our opponent by being close to his standing leg in the range
of a sweep or any other take down.
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Let's start with our first kick.
How exciting.
The meia lua de frente, or front half moon kick.
Start from the paralela position.
Lift your right leg, beginning from the outside of your body.
And towards the inside in a half moon motion.
Make sure to keep your legs straight at the knee, keep your ankle flexed, push your hips forward
towards the end of the kick.
Once you've finished the half moon motion, bend your knee and land your foot back in the parallel position.
Your right hand returning to protect your face.
Step two hand feet coordination here, we will see that no movement in capoeira is done without the
use of the whole body in order to gain power and balance prior to kick with our left leg.
Our hands will move towards the direction of the kick.
Simultaneously with the kick, our hands will move to the opposing direction of the kick, providing
us with more balance and power when our left leg returns to the parallel position.
So does our left hand return to protect our face.
Step three, meia lua de frente from ginga in this step
All we have to keep in mind is keeping a constant flow of direction.
That is to say that if I begin my emotions to my right side, I will also kick towards the same direction.
This is not a rule in capoeira.
It's only an exercise for beginners in maintaining flow.
step four, let's combine all we have learned so far.
in one short sequence from the ginga to the meia lua landing straight into cocorinha.
step 5 from and to anywhere on the ginga, the ginga is designed in such a way that it is possible
to execute any attack from any one of the bases and return to any one of the bases.
From Paralela to paralela, from Paralela to ginga.
From ginga to paralela , from ginga to ginga.
Meet Paola mystudent and a teacher at our academy.
Now we will put into practice everything we have learned so far.
That's it for today.
I hope you enjoyed our class.
I made sure to add a specific training program for today's class.
Don't forget to check it out.
See you next time.
AXE