WELCOME TO DAWG POUND FIGHT ACADEMY
Where Results Matter
Get ready to transform yourself both inside and out. Join Dawg Pound Fight Academy to nurture the warrior within, enhance your self-esteem, and take your practice to the next level. With our wide variety of classes for all skill levels, everyone is truly welcome. We offer Boxing, Kickboxing, Karate, and Jiujitsu classes and Personal Training.
ABOUT DAWG POUND FIGHT ACADEMY
The Best Version of Yourself
Since 2009, we have been the leading Boxing and Martial Arts Academy proudly offering the Tahlequah area unsurpassed quality. We strive to take boxing and martial arts back to its roots as both a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual art form that represents a harmonious way of life. In a world of seemingly unending pressures, we have developed a training program that provides and emotional outlet while promoting expressive strength, tenacity, integrity, and character building. The result is authentic balance in one's self, learning self discipline, respect, and honor. Martial arts give you the tool to stay present and focused while standing in the eye of the storm. It is this self-awareness that allows you to make the best decisions in stressful situations, and to defend yourself when needed. We promote inner advancement above outward appearance.
BOOYAH BOXING YOUTH PROGRAM
NON PROFIT PROGRAM FOR AT-RISK YOUTH
BOXING IS A METAPHOR FOR LIFE!
Mission: Guiding at-risk youth through boxing training, character building, literacy, and athletic after-school programs to healthy alternatives to drugs, alcohol, crime, and violence.
Vision: To guide, mentor, and inspire youth to be the strongest version of themselves through training, character building, and education.
Booyah Boxing Youth Program is a non-profit charitable organization formed in 2022 by Melissa Drywater and concerned citizens. It is an approach to juvenile delinquency prevention and education enrichment. Booyah Boxing is a safe haven for youth that provides boxing training, recreation, life skills, and literacy. Coaches, law enforcement, and other community members volunteer their time as mentors, role models, and friends to youth in our community. Booyah Boxing focuses on creating positive self-esteem, mutual trust, and respect. Booyah Boxing targets at risk youth in high crime and poverty neighborhoods.
Booyah Boxing Training
No matter how experienced you are, there’s always more room to perfect your form and master the sweet science. Boxing is the most effective form of self-defense. Booyah Boxing training program will help you grasp the techniques from a deeper, more disciplined perspective. This class focuses on boxing fundamentals, physical fitness, and metal fortitude to go the distance.
Elite Booyah Boxing
Sometimes it can be hard to have faith in your abilities, especially when you're stressed out and overworked. This advanced boxing class is designed to build physical and mental confidence like you’ve never had before. This Elite Boxing class is for intermediate, advanced, and competitive boxers.
Have questions about our classes?
Traditional Martials Arts teach discipline, respect, integrity, courage, and confidence. Our Kickboxing & Karate program is full-contact and competitive. Seidokan Karate practitioners will be trained, tested, and promoted under Grandmaster Shian Toma 10th Dan, Master Allen Tackett 9th Dan, and Sensei Melissa Drywater 5th Dan. Certificates of rank and belts come from Okinawa Japan.
Kickboxing & Karate
Our Jiujitsu classes use the most effective Jiujitsu techniques from Japan & Brazil.
JIUJITSU
Our instructors, coaches, and trainers have decades of experience in the fight world and working with competitive athletes. Head Instructor & Trainer, Melissa Drywater is a former boxer & kickboxer, 5th Dan Blackbelt Siedokan Karate, Red Stripe Blue Belt Jiujitsu, NASM CPT, HHP BS, H&K MS, and an Official of USA Boxing.
CERTIFIED with
USA Boxing, NASM, NESTA
