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.
We've got two locations in Hillsdale, within 3 blocks of each other!
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Huzzah! The time is upon us once again. Out annual fall tournament.
All students are invited! Kids ages 3-13 can grapple, spar, and do forms. They don’t have to do all three events, they can just do one or two if they prefer.
The time is roughly set at 9am-1pm on Saturday, October 8th. When registrations start coming in, we will zero in on more specific times for the various age groups. Follow the link here to register and for more information.
We are offering a special deal on our kickboxing and Tai-chi classes – only $20 for unlimited attendance (to only the fitness kickboxing and Tai-chi classes) through October 31st.
Two months of classes for $20!
The kickboxing classes happen on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9am at our 6315 SW Capitol highway campus, and the Tai-chi classes will happen on Fridays at 9am at our 6315 SW Capitol highway campus starting on September 2nd.
Are you looking to try martial arts? Are you 13 or older? Are you fully vaccinated against Covid-19? Are you a new student who has never trained with us before?
If you answered yes to all four of those questions, then you can take advantage of our $50 for 3 months deal this summer. Normally, three months of training would cost you $360. This summer, save $310 and take all the classes you want for the months of June, July, and August.
There’s no other hidden nonsense. $50. 3 months. Train all you want in all our adult martial arts programs (no, this does not include CrossFit classes.) Check out our schedule to see what’s open to you.
Click below and enter your email to sign up now:
Learning to kick is a daunting skill in martial arts, particularly if you’re not a young and limber child. Like most of the work to be done in training, it should be approached with the long game in mind. Take your time. Learn your basic kicks before you move on to the fancy stuff. Kick low with accuracy and strength before you bother messing with head kicks.
With all that preamble, what if you want to learn a hook kick? Well, you should probably already be somewhat proficient with the front, side, and roundhouse kick before you venture near the hook kick. This doesn’t mean you need perfection in those other kicks first, no way! Perfect is the enemy of the good. Don’t wait until you’ve “mastered” a skill to move on to the next one because if you do that, you’ll never move on. Instead, press gently at the margins of your competency.
The hook kick is basically a side kick that is thrown about 45 degrees off target and then pulled through at the hip. The big thing to avoid is simply “flippering” the shin. This is what happens when you try to kick too high too soon. Watch the video for the “wall” drill and practice kicking low for a few weeks until you feel comfortable, then gradually lift it up.
Good luck on your kick journey, and if you get past this one, it’s onward to the spin hook kick! Fun times.
If you find yourself doing a workout that calls for hang power cleans or hang power snatches, check out the downward path of your barbell. Is it close to your body? Does it glide smoothly back down to the hang position?
Odds are pretty high that if you’ve never drilled multiple reps of your hang movements with smoothness in mind, you’re probably curving the bar away from yourself on the way down, smacking your thighs, and wasting precious seconds.
Some folks will claim that the bar is too heavy for them to have a smooth downward bar path. My polite answer is that if you can’t achieve a smooth downward bar path, then the weight needs to drop down until you can.
Watch the video. Get smooth.
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