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7285, Handblocks
Posted by Brooklynbeef, Fri Aug-30-02 06:28 AM
I thought capoeria only dealt with legs. School me people.


>I wonder if they do stick fighting in the Islands like
>Manute Bol's people...that's the only other Afrikan style
>martial art I know about- other than the 52 handblocks you
>mentioned in another post.
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>avatar?
>In celebration of Black beauty...damn!
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>"I don't have class. What do I need class for? I'd rather
>have no class and have money than having class and no money.
>Which would you take if you had a chance?" --Poppa
>Williams.
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>"Well, when your every breath and will to live is an act of
>resistance, you cannot help but be 'too political'. To do
>otherwise is to hide, to live in denial and defeat."
>--ArabHottie
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>" If we can't learn to live together despite the turmoil of
>past generations we are doomed." -Stern
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>"And where today is the stable community that would sustain
>such a couple, where one can be both poor and diginified and
>raise one's children with decency and hope... If the answer
>is education, does our society adequateley provide that tool
>of self-improvement to the less well off?"-- Sidney Poitier
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>" I'm not mad 'cus I'm losing! I'm mad 'cus I don't know how
>to win!" --Kevin Curtis Daniels Jr.
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>"And herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are
>poor,-all men know something of poverty; not that men are
>wicked,-who is good? Not that men are ignorant, -what is
>Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men."
>W.E.B. Dubois