{"id":10,"date":"2013-05-02T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.54.76.114\/~shawkins\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-11-22T02:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:19:49","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/threeriversacademy.com\/dev\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"10\" class=\"elementor elementor-10\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1ebf05c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1ebf05c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1540382\" data-id=\"1540382\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9401d93 elementor-widget elementor-widget-video\" data-id=\"9401d93\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;video_type&quot;:&quot;hosted&quot;,&quot;controls&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"video.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-hosted-video elementor-wrapper elementor-open-inline\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<video class=\"elementor-video\" src=\"https:\/\/threeriversacademy.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Dojo-.mov\" controls=\"\" preload=\"metadata\" controlsList=\"nodownload\"><\/video>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d138df4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1d138df4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-38fe69c\" data-id=\"38fe69c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a71829d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1a71829d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1.625rem;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">HISTORY<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The idea of Three Rivers Martial Arts Academy was developed in March 1995 on the back of a Chong\u2019s restaurant placemat. Seven martial artists, all from different backgrounds, wrote down what we wanted the academy to be. We hoped to relate to others the change we saw in ourselves through martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>We wanted it to be an idea, not a promotion. We vowed to teach in a way that would demonstrate to the community that the study of martial arts was on par with any other field of endeavor such as medicine, engineering, etc. That year, we opened in a small space at the Executive Inn, and grew to fill a larger area in the same hotel within a couple of years.<\/p>\n<p>We were excited about what we were doing and knew it was special because we saw growth in the academy despite being located in a basement behind a floodwall. In April 1999, we moved to 900 Broadway in historic downtown Paducah. To accommodate our growing academy, we moved again in 2008 to Energy Fitness. 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