Because I from time to time quoted websites of capoeira experts, so you should be able to figure out that exactly the styles Capoeira Regional, Capoeira Angola, and Capoeira Contemporânea/ Capoeira Moderna exist. Each style is divided into several groups, but there’s not one style more and not one style less. The Czech guy, who runs the Razorwire blog, tries to revive capoeiragem, but this still isn’t an established style. So there are exactly the three styles.

The Artificial Intelligence of a search engine nevertheless tried to tell me that another capoeira style, Capoeira Paulista, would exist too. It was described with some typical tell-nothing buzz-words, which authors of English mother tongue love very much when describing a martial art. Capoeira Paulista seems to be named after a capoeira technique. The description of this paulista made it already into the English-speaking portion of the Wikipedia. The paulista shall be a special rasteira executed with “the inner leg”. The description is nonsense. Yet I can’t know whether a technique, which I don’t know, or a synonym, which I don’t know, for a technique or a better description exists, so I searched all available sources and found that really nobody knows a paulista. Perhaps a certain female capoeirista of this name, but definitely neither the style nor the technique of this name exists!

Why then would the nonsense description of the technique get adopted by Wikipedia? Obviously because nobody did double-check it! The nonsense description got adopted automatically because Wikipedia trusted in the source because this also was the result of a computer program. So the puzzle is completed: The paulista, the style as well as the technique, and also the aiki-nage (合気投げ) are hallucinations by an Artificial Intelligence! So AI nowadays is making encyclopedias unreliable! As if ideologically biased admins wouldn’t already have been bad enough.