|
On May 5th, 2012 Cara L. Mooney lost
her battle with cancer at the young age of only 31. To her
fans and our ScissorVixens family she was known as Kyla
Luciano.
As someone who has worked with
Kyla many times in the past we were extremely saddened to
learn about her passing! She was one of the first
ScissorVixens we featured on our site and in fact she's the
girl in the left hand corner of our website's banner wearing
the red booty shorts.
Whenever we worked with Kyla...it was always a blast! She
LOVED what she did and brought a lot of passion, charisma
and enthusiasm to every shoot! And pound for pound she had
one of the strongest scissor holds we've ever felt.
In addition to all of her athletic wrestling and scissoring
talents she was indeed a real sweetheart and that is
something I will always remember as well.
Rest In Peace Kyla...if there's a Scissor Heaven...you most
certainly have an eternal home there!
ScissorVixens.com
Kyla says: From the time I was
young, I was always interested in participating in some kind
of martial art. When I was
17 years old, I practiced karate for about a year.
Although it was good exercise, it just wasn't exactly
what I was looking for. I wanted something with more
physical contact but I wasn't sure what martial art
that would be. A few years later, I joined an aikido class
in western PA. It also wasn't exactly what I was
looking for. One day, the instructor showed the class an arm
bar from the mount. I was fascinated with how
devastating such a subtle technique could be. He informed me
that this technique was derived from
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. I discovered that a BJJ/submission
grappling class was taking place at the
same location but at different times. My first day, I did
techniques for about an hour and then wrestled 5
of the guys in the class. Immediately, I fell in love with
the sport. About a year later, I entered a
tournament in Jersey called Grappler's Quest. I wrestled
Shannon Logan in the finals. Afterwards, we
became good friends and she told me that mixed wrestling
existed. I was immediately intrigued. After
some internet research, I decided to try a session to see if
I would enjoy it. Obviously, I very much did,
and here I am! :) |
