[Capoeira] Capoeira and Breakdancing

[Cougar_v203]

I saw a video clip of capoeira once and then the following day i saw a kid breakdancing in the school halls and i was wondering if breakdancing came from capoeira or is it just similar?
I'm sorry if i didn't make sense.

[Baqueta]

Breakdancing has several points of orgins. Capoeira is a major influence. Many of the flashy moves in capoeira are also in breakdancing. I won't go into details on this one, being that there really are alot. When Mestre Jelon came from Salvador to New York with Loremil Machado in 1975, they had street performances and some people say that some early b-boyers took some of the moves. Read this for alot more info here (http://www.capoeira.com/planetcapoeira/view.jsp?section=Features&viewArticle=121) .

But breakdancing also has many other influences, such as kung fu and gymnastics. The windmill is actually a kung fu move (known in English as the Starkip). They just repeat the starkip over and over, and out comes the windmill. Obviously the flair came from gymnastics.

So you can say that breakdancing came from capoeira, though capoeira is nearly 500 years old and breakdancing isn't even 30 yet. Also there is a purpose to the flashy stuff in capoeira, while in breakdancing they are just showing the outward side of it, which is quite shallow. At least in my opinion.