Rage Room Open In Sauk Rapids

(KNSI) – Central Minnesotans now have a spot to release their rage.

Emotion in Motion in Sauk Rapids is now open and offers guests a chance to destroy everything in sight in the smash room or create a Jackson Pollock in the splatter painting section.

Owner Leah Beack explained to KNSI News her inspiration for the business came during the COVID-19 outbreak. “It was towards the end of the year 2020. And everyone was angry, rightly, because we were nine months into a pandemic. And I think we’re all kind of angry.”

Beack started with the splatter paint concept two years ago. A mobile art studio was used for birthday parties, county fairs and town festivals. Then, in May, she had a chance to open her own space and bring the rage room concept to life.

Beack explained you get as much time in the room as you need.

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“The fastest rage session I’ve ever had was 11 minutes. It was a gentleman, a trucker. And he had just learned that he needed to replace his truck to the tune of like a quarter million dollars. And then the longest was a very fit teenager, and he was in there for an hour and 45 minutes.”

Ragers must be at least ten years old.

People can choose ten personal items to break and get a bin of other things to pulverize.

The items come from donations left at her back door. The company will accept almost anything except items with freon. That means no TVs, air conditioners, refrigerators or microwaves. They get stuff through partnerships with local thrift stores looking to unload and bars to take their empty bottles.

The facility caters to birthday parties, individuals, team-building exercises, bachelor parties, divorce parties, and more.

Beack says most people are coming in to have a very good time, but some do come in to process some pretty difficult situations and use the rage room as therapy.

Book your appointment or learn more by clicking here.

KNSI Reporter Grant Dossetto contributed to this report.

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