Freewind’s Matthias Kalmbach, left, and Jessie Young, right, cheer on their peers during the Battle on the Columbia tournament in Kennewick. Instructor Brandi Guertin said martial arts may be an individual performance, but it helps to have a team of people supporting them.
August 4, 2025
Stories this photo appears in:
Basin athletes compete at Battle on the Columbia
KENNEWICK — On Saturday, students at Freewind Martial Arts Studio traveled to Kennewick for the Battle on the Columbia tournament. According to Brandi Guertin, manager and instructor at Freewind, tournaments like these help gauge progress. “Proud of everybody that showed up and competed,” Brandi said. “Martial arts is an ever-learning, evolving art and when we go to tournaments, we get to see what some of the other arts have to offer in their style of performance, and sometimes we can identify where a tool or a technique might work well with something that we do as well.”