Capoeira is not a real method of fighting; the Wikipedia article and other encyclopedic resources state this plainly. It is a fight-dance. Like Taekwondo, and like every other sodding stupid "martial art" taught in McDojos around the country, it is a formulaic system of physical expression. If you want to fight, you practice and spar. If you want to dance around or become honored for skillful movement of the body in a way consistent with what founders designed years ago, you learn a martial art. Granted, not all are like this. But monkey-style Kung Fu? Capoeira? Half the weird kicks in Taekwondo? They're all mostly ritualized, impractical kicks and flinging of limbs for show. Outside using them for your own benefit and practice, most martial "arts" are just that -- art. Not practicality; not pure logic and science.
But what this really boils down to is that in a fight, I would shoot my opponent. There are too many roving "sensei" with a little taste of the McDojos and inferiority complexes on the internet to ever seriously discuss "martial arts."
