Gabriela Vasconcelos: „The European style is our goal” 09:00 11/21/2014 Brazilian armwrestler on armwrestling and fighting oneself. Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Is armwrestling popular in Brazil? Not as much as other sports. I ’ d say that football, volleyball, even swimming are more popular. But we have quite a few armwrestlers too. Is Brazilian armwrestling more similar to the American or to the European style? I think that like everything in Brazil, it ’ s a bit of both. We like to study different styles, but our goal is the European style, because Europeans are the best. We ’ d like to wrestle like they do. Brazil is getting stronger in armwrestling, growing in the world. We ’ ve been in this sport for quite some time now, we had our ups and downs. New people come in, old fighters retire. We invest in new talents, so that the sport grows. That ’ s how we can become world-renown. And how did you get into armwrestling? I was 12 when I started doing