As someone who is fairly short, I don't think being lower is necessarily a disadvantage. While dangerous, because your face is much easier to swat at, you have plenty of openings you wouldn't have at a higher position.

Ideally I'd like to find a way to put together both sambo and capoeira. Sambo is much less fluid overall than capoeira, and capoeira has a few glaring issues in terms of defense that sambo covers well. I don't think I'll ever have the time to master either, but learning both well enough to function as a machine together is definitely a goal I plan to fulfill at some point.