THE RED CORNER

NEWS AND UPDATES FROM THE NORTH STAR ACADEMY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

WEEK OF JULY 21st, 2025

 

Happy Monday Team!

Let’s give a big shoutout to Kyle and Ryan on their performances this past Saturday at Grappling Industries.  Ryan picked up a silver medal in a packed blue belt division, and Kyle was edged out in the semi finals of his division but finished with a ton of matches under his belt.  These two athletes have been working incredibly hard and have made some serious improvements in their skillsets lately.  Congrats guys!

 

This week will be our final week on Greene St!  A plucky, optimistic young Jackson signed his first commercial lease in December of 2017 for what is now known as the “Garden Room” having no idea where this experiment would take him.  In December of 2018, when our next door neighbors, a daycare, moved on, we absorbed the larger room into our program and the rest is history!  It’s been incredible to watch the story of this academy being written in real time, with thousands of authors (i.e., all of you!), each contributing their own arc to the long, convoluted tale we have, and will continue, to tell.

In every way, the story of the academy is the story of the people inside of it.  It’s your story.

Like many of you, I have had some incredibly powerful moments inside this space.  I invite you all to come celebrate it all this week over the next three days as we close this chapter in style!  Former members are absolutely welcome and I’d love to see some old faces on the mats.

Classes will run as normal Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and then we will close Thursday through Sunday for our big move.  Classes resume on Monday, July 28th, at our new location at 6673 Germantown Ave (Unit B) — the large church set back in the graveyard on the corner of Germantown Avenue and Phil Ellena Sts.

Please note that our Thursday Muay Thaigers class is invited to participate in our youth class on Wednesday, July 23rd, at 5pm.  We will offer a “MMA” class for the kids where we integrate both striking and grappling techniques!

If anyone has any cardboard boxes or bins of any kind they can donate to our efforts, that would be extremely appreciated.  You can bring them to the gym whenever!

I am extremely excited about this move.. primarily so we can get it done and then get back to what we do best, being 100% focused on kicking ass 🙂

See you on the mats!

 

–Coach Jackson

You can find this week’s Monday Mindset HERE

You can find this week’s Junior Samurai Stripe Challenge HERE