North Portland Martial Arts

North Portland Martial Arts offers martial arts, self defense, and fitness training that includes striking, boxing, kickboxing, clinching, and ground fighting. Classes include heavy bag rounds, boxing pad work, ground fighting drills, sparring, and strength conditioning. The program also offers a Women's Kickboxing class that includes self-defense in that class.

• Ages: 5–18 years old

North Portland Martial Arts is a self defense and fitness center and a small family owned business. Its training program focuses on striking (boxing and kickboxing), clinching, and ground fighting and blends older martial arts approaches with newer ones. It offers martial arts and self defense classes for kids, teens, and adults, and offers a free trial class. The kids program emphasizes building strength, balance, and coordination, and kids learn boxing combinations, kicks, ways to communicate, focus, and how to set and reach goals, with ages as young as 5 allowed but 6 and up recommended for the kids program. Teen classes focus on kickboxing, building self confidence and awareness, sparring, and fitness conditioning. Adult classes are designed around striking, clinching, and ground fighting and include sparring and strength conditioning, and all levels are welcome in adult classes. The Women's Kickboxing class is available once a week as a space for women to learn and practice martial arts and self-defense. A sparring class offers a place to pressure test techniques and ability, and all levels are welcome in the sparring class. The program states that its primary goal is to use martial arts to become better humans and that it welcomes all shapes and sizes and all levels of ability in a safe and supportive environment.

Last updated July 13, 2026.