The term “Kung Fu” is widely used to describe Chinese martial arts and is actually a very broad term. It does not describe just one way of fighting but many different techniques and styles. Chinese martial arts were developed in order that students could defend themselves in both day to day life and as part of their military training. Hand to hand combat and weapons practice were important components in the training of Chinese soldiers. Martial arts: arts used by the military, soon became an important part of the Country’s culture.

I feel compelled to write about one type of martial arts that I have personal

experience with.  No..... not me personally but I have just a few kids (six to be exact).  One of my boys works all the time….one is a the quiet, artistic type,  one is wild and crazy and one is lazy beyond belief.  So, I started hunting for after-school activities that would be good for each of them.

The son that was working was easy…….he works…..the artistic son was also very easy…….I sent him to art classes!!  The wild and crazy and lazy ones were more difficult.  So I remembered a conversation I had been in with some other mothers some time back where they had been talking about some sort of martial arts called Caporera (that's how I would have spelled it before this article!!)

So I took my two sons (the wild one and the lazy one) and went to check out this capoeira.  It looked sort of like martial arts and break dance combined.  It looked nothing short of cool... so I enrolled them.