Free Community Kickboxing Seminar- Martial Arts Open House April 16

Our good friend, Mark Barber will be returning to lead another incredible kickboxing seminar on Saturday April 16 at 2:00pm for our open house and relocation celebration.  This is a free community event and open to people of all fitness and skill levels. Visit http://www.facebook.com/ForcaMMA additional event details, class schedules and awesome content shared daily!

Mark is the head coach and co-owner of 501 Martial Arts in Conway.  He has traveled the country training martial arts for over 25 years and is excited to come and share his passion for teaching and training and is excited to come and share his experience with the members from the surrounding community.  Mark is one of the most personable and friendliest instructors that you will ever meet and enjoys working with beginners as well as advanced students.

2014 Kickboxing Seminar

The open house event will serve as the grand opening of our new location.  Força was previously located at 2300 West Main Street here in Russellville for over three years.  The amount of growth that we have experienced during that time was amazing.  Now with nearly 200 students we will be expanding the size of our current space significantly to help accommodate and sustain our progress.

Join us at our new location on April 16 from 10:00am until 4:00pm for a day filled with fitness, family and fun!  Our new academy is located just off the West end of Parkway near Stoby’s at 900 West E. Street, Russellville, AR. 72801.  Call 479-214-1245 with any questions you may have in the meantime or head over to our website at http://www.forcaMMA.com!

Come for before the seminar and eat lunch with us! Lunch will be served from 11:30am-1:00pm.  We will also be doing giveaways, demonstrations and special announcements during this time.  There will be free hamburgers and hot dogs served provided by Arvest Bank.  Umami Sushi and Grill Fusion are also sponsoring a plate lunch.  Make any donation and receive a delicious plate of Japanese food.  Any funds raised for our non-profit programs during our open house will greatly help with the purchase of needed uniforms, shoes and other program specific gear that our non profit require for training.

Força's Community Outreach Program

Many of you have noticed, we’re sure, that Força has experienced some rapid membership growth in the last few months. We’re making the best use of our increasingly cramped space, but coaches and students alike are looking forward to a more expansive Força facility come April 16 when we celebrate the grand opening of our new location.

As we grow, one word that has become increasingly important to our mission is “community.” While Força has always been a community-centric organization, our new facility will allow us to expand that focus as well. One of the most important concepts of a good martial arts program is the development of respect and consideration for others, and Força’s non-profit programs are central to that concept.

Força’s Community Outreach Program, the parent organization for all three of our non-profit programs, has also been growing in scope and size. The program’s mission is to be a force of good for the entire River Valley, which has shown us such support over the years. All three of our non-profit programs – including Project Warrior, RPB Boxing Club, and Força Community Martial Arts – are aimed at sharing the benefits of martial arts training with people in our community who might otherwise never have opportunity to experience those benefits.

Project Warrior meets every Tuesday & Thursday at 6pm and provides military, law enforcement, and firefighting personnel free access to the gym and, perhaps more importantly, a community of peers to practice grappling and rolling techniques. Headed by Chris Housenick, an Army vet and MMA coach, Project Warrior offers that sense of brotherhood and sisterhood that is so central to military and defense personnel yet so often missing from civilian life.  After our relocation in April this program will be offered every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:15pm.

RPD Boxing Club offers free weekly boxing lessons and workouts for anyone interested in learning boxing techniques. The Boxing Club, led by retired Russellville Police Sergeant John Serette, has thrived as an essential element of our community outreach program since it moved to Força in 2012. The club promotes confidence and discipline and is primarily geared toward disadvantaged youth and teens in the River Valley, but anyone from the community is welcome to participate.  Currently practices are held every Tuesday and Thursday at 4:45 for ages 8-34.

Força Community Martial Arts is the latest addition to the Community Outreach Program, one that we are very excited about. It’s truly a community effort as Força has partnered with local health organizations to be a key element of the organizations’ treatment programs by providing gear and MMA training to referred local youth. FCMA promises to be a program that will see rapid growth as we move into this next phase of our Força family.

We are excited about the direction Força’s Community Outreach Program is taking and invite anyone who is interested in knowing more to contact us or stop by the gym. Or better yet, learn more at the grand opening of our new location, 900 West E Street, on April 16, where Força’s Community Outreach program will be central to the celebration. Project Warrior representatives will be on site selling T-shirts, local sushi restaurant Umami will be catering plate lunches and licensed massage therapist Robert Regnier offering professional massages for non-profit donations, and the RPD Boxing Club will be staging a demonstration that is sure to knock you out. And that’s just the non-profit portion of the plans! It promises to be a fun day. Hope to see you there!