Begin your day with Beginner's Mind

Get your cardio up and your energy levels jumping and do it before noon!

Beginner's Mind is opening our doors to morning martial arts and fitness classes. This sweat inducing exercise intensive program will work you through a mix of martial arts and kickboxing and focuses on personal development for a tighter healthier YOU! This is a program that works FOR you because it is based ON you.

We have two separate classes to help work around your schedule:
Monday and Wednesday - 8am to 9am
Tuesday and Thursday - 8am to 9am

Space is limited as classes are kept at a size to keep them personal and comfortable. Don't hesitate, call your instructor Mr. C at 509-301-7831 to reserve your spot now!

Saturday Night Fights

This night, Barnaby's bar and restaurant was a martial arts hotspot as people of all ages gathered to an all ages event in which, fighters from as far away as Idaho and California gathered to compete in eleven mixed martial arts matches.

Of these 22 competitors, the Gentleman's Fight Club brought two to the table, Michael and Forrest, each fighter, new to the cage.

Though, this was a martial arts event, one match stood out before the fighters even reached the ring, this was the boxing match midway through the card. In this match, the Gentleman's Fight Club's own Michael stepped in to the ring and, though he didn't take the match, his performance was stellar and the match was a star match of its own with each boxer bringing powerful fists to one another.

The other fighter from the Gentleman's Fight Club was Forrest, another fresh fighter to the cage and, like Michael, also full of enthusiasm and energy. He was the first fighter to step into the ring on this night and was also the provider for the high level of energy that carried through the entire night! Again, the true professional spirit of the Gentleman's Fight Club had decided to shine through as this match, ended within fifty-four seconds and saw Forrest walking away with his first win due to a TKO.

The Gentleman's Fight Club had an excellent night, as did the Tri-Cities based Northwest Elite Martial Arts and the Sun Valley Crew, but, most importantly, Walla Walla was given an amazing gift of entertainment by 22 talented individuals that wanted nothing more than to compete and to live their dream. A thank you goes out from Beginner's Mind Martial Arts to all of the competitors that took a chance and lived!

NO MORE TRAINING!

Martial arts is a phenomenon that has steadily swept the United States in the last couple decades and now, as it continues into its stellar orbit with the UFC and amateur MMA rings across the country, many people are getting into the art of whoop-ass. A lot of them actually do really well with their matches and get the ability to walk away with inflated egos that they fought hard to carry.
Some folks don't want to learn Jiu-Jitsu and take other classes like Tae Kwon Do or Karate in order to become better fighters. In addition to that, many boxers are stepping out of the hidden gyms. It seems that we are teaching our country how to fight and defend pretty adequately with no shortage of training camps.

• One thing I see less and less of, it seems, is the ability to teach that the arts are not for fighting, the arts are for peace. Training schools from any background churn out great athelets and fighters but where is the great discipline? What happened to great self control?
• What did the sensei teach the "karate guy" from Pensylvania who assaulted another man with a baseball bat? He made threats and followed up with violence!
• How about the woman from Arkansas that knocked out another girl and then, continued beating her while she was down. Where was the discipline training here?
• This problem even sits in the professional field of MMA (though, it rarely happens) with 'Rampage' Jackson and his driving antics. (Notice the support he gains from the reporter, this type of encouragement is trouble.)

I don't mean to imply that martial arts is a bad thing for our society. I would just like to see more responsibility coming from people that practice martial arts. As is the case with any undertaking in which you develop more power than others, without the self discipline to take on the power of martial arts and treat it (and now, yourself) as a weapon equally as dangerous as a shotgun, or a nuclear warhead, you are a danger to yourself and to those around you...including the people you love the most. I urge you to consider these things before taking up martial arts. If you are already in a school or training privately, please understand there is a time and place for war but peace is the desired result, not destruction. If you are a teacher, please consider teaching from the path of peace, even while training cage fighters.

Maybe it is a bit cheesy, but I often think about Spider-Man and the lesson he learned early in his crime fighting career that, "With great power, comes great responsibility."