OUR PROGRAMS
MARTIAL ARTS FOR ALL
Our mission is to bring the best possible martial arts program to Brainerd. With certified, championship-winning instructors, Team Ascension offers the most versatile class offerings in the Brainerd Lakes area, from Jiu-Jitsu to extreme sport karate to gymnastics, we've got it all, and we've got a place for you. With programs for every age group and experience level, no one gets left behind!
STATE-CERTIFIED CHILDCARE CENTER
In Summer 2024, Team Ascension partnered with the Central Lakes Learning Center, and out of that came our all encompassing, state certified childcare program. We have two goals: affordable childcare for all families, and the best possible childhood experience for Brainerd's youth. By combining the best of our martial arts program and the best of CLLC's art, music, and educational tutoring program, we can confidently say we have the best after school program in Brainerd. Starting this fall, we will not only be picking up your child from school, we will be able to drop them off at home too. Slots are limited, so reserve yours today!
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AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM
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FOR PARENTS
Parents choose us because they know we care. With pick up from school and drop off at home, we strive to make the lives of our parents that much easier. While you're hard at work, you can rest easy knowing that your child is having amazing new experiences with us every single day, all at an affordable price.
FOR KIDS
Every single day, our students have access to the very best resources and experiences we can possibly give them. In our program, students have access to our whole gym facility, every single martial arts class we offer, as well as access to the Central Lakes Learning Center's expansive music and art programs. Not only that, but we intend to go on field trips around Brainerd near every single day, so they're never, "just sitting around."
SWING BY TONIGHT!
How to join us? Two ways! Online or in person!
Please contact us at 218-513-5816 for more information.
But here is the process:
a) Decide if you want to do classes online, in person, or both online and in person.
b) Drop by our studio some week day evening at 1313 South 6th St. after 3 PM, or contact us during the day by phone.
We offer classes online throughout the daytime hours for all ages and abilities! In the evening, between 4 PM and 8 PM, we offer classes live and online simultaneously. If making it into the dojo some night is difficult, with our program you can still join class from the comfort of your home!
c) After registration on the website or at the live studio, come to class in person or via zoom! That is it!
Karate is a sport that lasts not through high school, but a lifetime...
...the hardest part is just showing up because we can teach you the rest!
Classical Forms
Creative Forms
Extreme Forms
Traditional forms make up the basis for the typical curriculum found in a karate school. On the competitive level, it is composed of several different divisions. Traditional forms are typically divided into Classical, Korean, Hard Style, and Chinese.
Modern traditional forms have evolved to open hand movements that you might see modified from a dance or a tumbling class. These are exciting and explosive minute and a half karate forms that do not include flips.
Extreme forms combine martial arts and gymnastics to press the pinnacle of athleticism to its highest level. These forms include jumps, flips, spins, and electrify crowds with their daredevil stunts. And while the gymnastics wow the crowds, the traditional karate elements make it uniquely martial arts.
Point Sparring
Continuous Sparring
Weapons Forms
Point sparring is a game of hard tag with pads. It relies on speed of punches, footwork, and strategy. Point sparring is a chess game that keeps a body on its toes, and fit for life.
Like its cousin point sparring, continuous sparring is an outstanding way to stay fit. Incorprating more elements of boxing, kicks and punches are typical from a traditional karate program. This is a two minute lightning round where the person with the greatest speed, agility, and power wins the day
Weapons can be traditional or extreme, and are a favorite division among Team Ascension members. Typical weapons used common at karate tournaments include the bo staff, kamas, bokken, and nunchucks. But like the rest of the sport karate world, weapons divisions are seeing new ideas all the time. To win at a weapons contest, focus on speed and creativity.
American Kenpo
American Kenpo is fast becoming one of the most popular forms of self defense in the United States. With its common sense approach and highly effective techniques, people of all ages are able to enjoy this particular discipline with practical applications to real world situations.
Korean Forms
Kobudo
Korean forms, evolving from Tang Soo Do, is defined by high kicks, flexibility, strength, power, and presence. Great crowd pleasing showmanship coupled with rapid fire kicking and punching make this a crowd pleaser on stages around the world and tournaments world wide.
Many competitors mistake traditional weapons for another style of creative weapons. In fact, Kobudo has its own set of standardized techniques and forms based in Okinawan martial arts.