Silva visits, wrestles with Amazonian tribe

source: globoesporte.com

In a story which aired Sunday on long-running Brazilian TV show “Sports Spectacular,” Silva visited the Kamayura people, an indigenous tribe who live on the Upper Xingu River in the state of Mato Grosso. While there, “The Spider” got in a workout with the natives.

“The mind must always be like a parachute, always open to new experiences,” said Silva.

The new experience to which the champ refered was the huka-huka, a traditional wrestling style practiced by the tribes of the region. Before he could participate, though, Silva first heard the tales of the fighters and their ancient martial art.

“We get two and a half years in seclusion, preparing to be a fighter, just scraping the skin and applying the root,” explained one of the natives, stating that the tribes males begin their training at 13 years old.

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2/10/12 1:12 PM by Bick Koxer

Cool. Anderson is a true martial artist.

2/9/12 5:16 PM by Auswilliam

tribesman come equipped with digital cameras now.

2/9/12 3:10 PM by WatchinMMA

LOL

2/9/12 3:06 PM by BigBlack23

Yeah LITERALLY

2/9/12 3:02 PM by BigBlack23

I always wondered what the "P" in Chael P. Sonnen stood for....lol.

2/9/12 12:25 PM by TexDeuce

Cool vid, thanks for posting

2/9/12 11:53 AM by Salokcin69

This.

2/9/12 11:12 AM by DiscipleDojo

Chael...you better step it up if you want to match Anderson's training...

2/9/12 11:01 AM by jct71

He'd probably get submitted then piss hot later on.

2/9/12 10:43 AM by twinkletoesCT

That depends a lot on your KM instructor. In some cases, that is absolutely true. In others, it's the absolute opposite. My first KM instructor (who appears in that episode of FQ) was all about sparring. Students sparred in pretty much every class, and it was pretty hard contact. Grappling was allowed, and if you ended up on the ground, you had better know how to handle that. When he does demonstrations, people only see the "look at this cool pre-planned technique" side of things, but that dude can THROW DOWN, and so can his students. With that said, I have visited a number of KM schools that do a tae-bo kind of cardio kickboxing with some elbows and knees thrown in, along with some fancy stuff, and call it KM. It can be very much a TMA, depending on who is teaching it.

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