Muhammed Karal – Gladiador – Axé Capoeira Trabzon-Rize representative and capoeira coach, member of the Ankara Axé Capoeira Association.

Born on 08.06.1997 in Rize, where he completed primary and high school. He discovered capoeira in 2010. In 2012, 2013 and 2014, while in high school, he won provincial and regional inter-school championships in various combat sports. In 2013 he received the nickname “Gladiador”. He competed in kickboxing tournaments for the Rize Directorate of Youth and Sports in 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2016 he passed the trials at the Milli İrade Wushu Championship and was called up to the national team. In 2017 he earned the title of National Athlete at the International Milli İrade Taolu Sanda Championship.

In 2017, as a national athlete, he began studying Sports Management at the Faculty of Sport Sciences of Karadeniz Technical University. In 2019 he received the Gymnastics Level 1 coaching certificate from the Turkish Gymnastics Federation.

In 2019 he founded Trabzon’s first capoeira academy, the Trabzon-Rize Axé Capoeira Academy. In 2019 he also taught capoeira at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University in Rize.

In 2021 he graduated from the Sports Management Department of the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Karadeniz Technical University, and he is continuing the master’s programme in Sports Management Sciences at Trabzon University’s Graduate Institute, which he began the same year.

In 2021 he worked as an instructor on the international project “European International Group (EIG) Erasmus Capoeira Can Do All”, teaching beginner-level technical and theoretical capoeira to athletes from abroad.

He continues to give group and private capoeira and gymnastics classes at the Trabzon-Rize Axé Capoeira Academy. He attended the Axé Capoeira Bursa Festival & Batizado 2019.

He attended the Axé Capoeira Türkiye Festival & 7th Türkiye Championship 2018 and received the “Azul” cord.
Axé Capoeira Eastern Black Sea Festival, Trabzon, 2018 – Organiser
He attended the Axé Capoeira Ankara Batizado & 8th Türkiye Championship 2019, won second place in category B and received the “Azul-Marrom” cord.
Axé Capoeira Eastern Black Sea Festival, Trabzon, 2019 – Organiser
He attended the 2020 Türkiye Batizado (15th Axé Capoeira Türkiye cord ceremony) and received the “Marrom” cord.
He attended the 2021 Türkiye Batizado (16th Axé Capoeira Türkiye cord ceremony) and received the “Marrom-Ponta Verde” cord.
In 2022 he received the Gymnastics Level 2 coaching certificate from the Turkish Gymnastics Federation.
At the 2022 Türkiye Batizado (17th Axé Capoeira Türkiye cord ceremony) he received the Marrom/Verde corda.
3rd Axé Capoeira Festival and Batizado, Trabzon, 2022 (organiser)