Learning is hard.

Especially on your ow– so many things have to be explored before results are relished. Capoeira is magical, and those who created were magical. It was like learning and teaching calculus before the calculator, a task that seems impossible nowadays. Not that you have create kicks are movements, that part is done for you, but like learning classes and methodologies within computer programming– it’s just the beginning.

Where should the focus on the sequences be?

The question hit watching one of my training videos on IG (@capoeiramaranhao) I was working on combining the meia lua de compasso passado into a dequsiva basica. It wasn’t that there was particular reason for me to mold both of those moments, only that I wanted to work on both at the same time. I figured if I made a sequence, it would be let me do more reps. It worked for a bit.

I moved on to creating a checklist while I played an imaginary opponent. It felt good, felt right, but yet I’m only doing one rep of that movement per training, The focus was on when it would be executing and how it can be done, and typically, it was a movement I could already do fairly well. This isn’t effective if I can’t do the movement. I ended up just throwing myself into advance movements after repping some kicks and other movements.

Which methodology is the best? I don’t know, but there’s only one way I can find out.

I got to try all of them.