Diamond Martial Arts

Special Wellness Market 🌟

Check out the full vendor lineup (including some new vendors!), & read below for all the health-focused activities and live music!

WELLNESS DAY HIGHLIGHTS & ACTIVITIES:
🍏 Curious Chefs: A free, hands-on program! Kids get a $2 produce voucher to shop the market, plus a fun activity to earn cool prizes while learning about fresh food.
🥋 Diamond Martial Arts: Catch an incredible live Taekwondo demonstration by their students! Stop by to meet the team and learn about their awesome programs.
💆‍♀️ Sacred Dunes Health: Your self-care oasis! Stop by for a chair massage ($10 for 10 minutes) and shop popular items like whipped beef tallow & CBD gummies.
🤱 Market Mamas (NWI Food Council): Starting in July and returning every second Saturday throughout the market season, supporting new/expecting moms with $30 market vouchers to shop directly with vendors (first-come, first-served), plus market tours and nutrition resources.
🧠 Kinetic Sand Play with Healthy Families, Dunebrook: Bring the kiddos to play with kinetic sand and learn how sensory play reduces stress and grounds the whole family.
🏥 HealthLinc: Free expert help navigating health insurance (Medicaid/Medicare), info on affordable whole-person care, and free giveaways for all ages!

🎸 Live Entertainment
Neil Allesee: Enjoy a soulful, feel-good live blend of rock, jam, funk, blues, and alternative while you shop!

Michigan City | Saturday, June 13th
🕒 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
📍 8th & Washington St.

ATA has a variety of tournament approved sparring gear from different manufacturers. If you haven't yet bought gear and are looking for something different, check out the new line from adidas!

Big thanks to the instructors at Reigon ATA and XCelsior Martial Arts for hosting and running the Tournament Judge Cerification last Sunday. It was a great time for Mr. Lanning to continue his journey as a new ATA Licensee learning and growing his skills and knowledge to being !

🥋 Perseverance.

It's one of the foundational tenets of Taekwondo — and this week's episode of the ATA Nation Podcast features one of the most powerful living examples of it you'll ever encounter.
Her name is Jessica Cox. She was born without arms.

She is also:
🛩️ The world's first licensed armless pilot — a Guinness World Record holder who flies a single-engine plane using her feet.
🥋 The first armless person to earn a black belt in the American Taekwondo Association — and now a 4th Degree Black Belt.

🎤 A motivational speaker who has shared her story in 26 countries.

Read that again. She didn't stop at one black belt. She didn't stop at "I proved I could do it." She kept going. First degree. Second. Third. Fourth. That is perseverance — not a single moment of grit, but a thousand quiet decisions to show up, again and again, when it would have been completely understandable to stop.

Jessica has a phrase she lives by: "think outside the shoe." It's her play on "think outside the box" — and it captures her whole philosophy. When the standard tools don't work, you don't quit. You adapt. You find a new way.

This is exactly the spirit we try to build in every student who walks through our doors at Diamond Martial Arts. Every kid who thinks they can't. Every adult who thinks they're too old, too out of shape, too late. Every parent watching from the bleachers wondering if their child has what it takes.

Jessica's story is the answer. Whatever you're facing — it can be overcome. Not by luck. Not by talent. By showing up.

🎧 Listen here: https://youtu.be/HMJNuJaVJC4

To our students: the next time class feels hard, remember her. The next time you want to quit a form halfway through, remember her. The next time you tell yourself "I can't" — remember that someone with no arms became a pilot, a 4th Degree Black Belt, and an inspiration to millions.

You can. Now go train. 👊

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