31/08/2016
World BlackBelt Online
Carla Ribeiro "Female Martial Artist of the Month"
"This may be my last year..."
Belying her supermodel
looks and elegant style burns an intense competitive fire that has made Carla Ribeiro the toughest female fighter in South America and soon to be an international star of film and television. So spectacular are Carla’s unprecedented fighting achievements that she is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for having won an amazing six Gold Medals at the 1996 WAKO Karate Championships in Hamilton, Canada. “Winning the six Gold Medals was my greatest accomplishment,” said Carla who went undefeated in 22 fights in the tournament. “I was so tired and my back hurt so bad that I had to take a bath in water that was so hot that it turned by skin completely red,” recalls Carla.
Born in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, the
determined and multitalented Carla got started in the Martial Arts as a teenager at the urging of her older sister Pania. “My sister became pregnant about a month after I started training and had to quit, but I fell in love with the Martial Arts and never stopped,” said Carla who first studied Capoeira and then later earned a 4th Degree Black Belt in Shotokan Karate. Carla credits her Martial Arts training as being the key to her success in all aspects of her life, and it even saved her life on one occasion. “The Martial Arts has taught me to be calmer and more alert and as a result I have been able to keep my composure when I was in law school when others were feeling the stress, and I was even able to defend myself when someone tried to rob me once in Brazil,” explained Carla. “The Martial Arts is a life style and I am a Karate woman,” continued Carla who credits the Martial Arts with giving her the confidence and discipline to be able to realize some rather lofty personal and http://old.worldblackbelt.com/pages/fma_carla.asp?SID=
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