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Anonymous
Capoeira is a very good workout for overall fitness. You'll spend a lot of time on your hands, doing pretty much every pushup and dip variant imaginable, so you get a lot more upper body work than the other arts you listed. Doing handstands and cartwheels as part of basic moves may not be practical or even sane, but it does work the upper body. Other common movements put heavy strain on all sides of the core. And, of course, you're doing lunges and squats the whole time.
Look, compound movements are good, right? Balance, control, strength, and flexibility are all important for total fitness, right? Well, capoeira does all of those really well. The fact that it's more like dance or gymnastics is a feature in this regard, not a detriment. it has a lot of weird, impractical motions that karate and hapkido don't use. Look at the picture you posted, OP. That guy doing that weird arched-back handstand - you will never see that in karate or hapkido, because it's frankly pretty dumb in a fight. But it requires strength and control throughout the body. It's good for you.
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