SW Portland Martial Arts teaches Mo Duk Pai (a style that emphasizes ethics, practicality and teaching) and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (a grappling and throwing art).
CrossFit Hillsdale teaches functional fitness with an emphasis on gradual progress and real world results.
Our mission is to provide students with quality instruction, love of learning, and open appreciation for all movement arts.
Got a kid age 6-12 who is itching to try martial arts? Sign up now for only $30 and get unlimited training through 4/30.
That’s $130 off our normal monthly rate. In addition, should you choose to sign up after this amazing deal, we’ll give you 50% off your first month’s regular dues.
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Go to our kids intro page to sign up.
In the fantasyland of martial arts movies, snatching kicks, punches, spears, and swords out of the air is common practice. Unsurprisingly, kids are particularly susceptible to the illusion that plucking strikes out of the air is a thing.
It’s completely possible to kick catch, it’s just most of the time, the kick has to actually land to make it catchable. That’s why on Wednesday, in the kid’s martial arts class, we practiced letting the kick hit us, moving with the momentum of it THEN scooping up the leg. While it might not look as cool as a Kung fu movie, it’s generally a more successful strategy.
Starting in February, We’ll be running a “fundamentals” kids class for ages 8 and up. It’s on Tuesdays @5pm. There will still be the regular class in the big gym, replete with all the sparring, wrestling, and grappling that the students are used to… this is an additional class.
Why? Because there are students who are not ready for the rough and tumble of wrestling and sparring. This class will be all about technique and drills. We will work with partners but there won’t be any competitive sparring or wrestling.
All current students are welcome to take the class at no charge. New students can sign up for a package of the 4 Tuesdays in February for $80 here.
If there was a fight between barbells and dumbbells, who would win?
Trick question, they’d both lay there inert because they have no capacity for independent motion so neither would win. Instead, think of yourself as the winner of the battle, the possessor of two distinct and functional tools.
If you are worried you might not have equal strength in both arms, use the dumbbells. They’ll let you know if you have a weak side. If you’re looking to load up on more total weight, use the barbells. If you haven’t used the dumbbells in a long time, give them a try, there’s a whole different feeling of challenge you get from moving around two separate objects versus the barbell.
In the eternal fight between barbells and dumbbells, you are the winner. Use them both… probably not at the same time, but you know, alternate using them.
6309 SW Capitol Highway, Portland OR, 97239
503 432 7450
info@southwestportlandmartialarts.com