There will be no classes held on Monday, September 6 due to the Labor Day holiday. Regular classes and free lessons will resume, Tuesday, September 7. The gym will be open from Noon to 4 pm. Be safe and enjoy your holiday.

Long-time Titan training client and high school football standout, Patrick Flanagan has earned a walk on spot on the Penn State Nittany Lion football team.  All of us at Titan congratulate Patrick on this achievement of his lifelong goal of becoming a Nittany Lion.  We wish him well during his upcoming college football career.

All of us at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts would like to welcome back all Penn State students for the Fall 2010 semester.  We are looking forward to a great year here of martial arts and boxing instruction.  As Central Pennsylvania’s premier martial arts and fitness facility, we offer classes in mixed martial arts, Thai boxing, women’s kickboxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and boxing.  Memberships also include full use of the most state-of-the-art fitness facilities in the area.  If you are interested in getting involved in any of our programs, we welcome you to call us at 814/235-1015 or email us at info@titanfitness.com to schedule your free lesson as a way to try out the program.  The start date for most of our new classes will occur during the week of August 30, 2010.  Consult our schedule to see when the class of your choice is meeting.  We look forward to having you as a part of Titan Fitness & Martial Arts.

We have just released our Fall 2010 class schedule, our most ambitious schedule to date.  We are offering our standard classes in mixed martial arts, women’s kickboxing, and boxing.  We will continue to teach Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes as well as we have since last March.  The Thai boxing classes will include a beginners class to along with our advanced class for those students who want to specialize in the stand up kickboxing style.  Youth martial arts classes are also going to be offered.   For more details, check out the link listed below.  It includes start dates and times for all the classes.  For beginners to martial arts, contact us at 814/235-1015 or info@titanfitness.com to inquire about classes and to schedule your FREE lesson.  It’s going to be a great fall.  Join us for a great ride!

http://www.titanfitness.com/blog/schedule

Ted Czech, author of the MMA Explosion blog at yorkblog.com wrote an in-depth article on Titan MMA fighter, Tyler Saltsman.  It is definitely worth the read as is keeping up with everything going on in PA mixed martial arts at Ted’s blog.  Enjoy the article.

http://www.yorkblog.com/mma/2010/06/tyler-xuan-saltsman-taking-his.html

Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is pleased to announce an expanded Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class schedule that starts this Monday, June 28.  The following schedule offers students the possibility of 15 hours per week of BJJ.

Monday through Friday 8 am – 9 am (free roll)
Gi Classes:  Monday 6-7 pm, Tuesday 5-6 pm, Wednesday 6-7 pm, Thursday 5-6 pm, Friday 5-6 pm
No-Gi Classes:  Monday -Thursday 7-8 pm, Friday 6-7 pm

Summer classes are being taught by BJJ practitioner and MMA fighter, Ben Grove.  Ben is a blue belt and a former wrestler with 10 years of experience.  Following a brief collegiate boxing career, he turned to MMA to fulfill his need for competition.  After training in BJJ for two years and competing in five amateur MMA fights, Ben traveled to Brazil to train with some of the world’s finest BJJ greats in schools where some of the finest MMA and BJJ fighters have trained.  Ben trained with over 40 black belts, including many world champions.  On August 13, Ben will fight in his first professional MMA debut in Scranton, PA.  We invite students to train and benefit from Ben’s considerable talent and newfound knowledge from his extensive training experience in the founding country of BJJ.

Existing students are encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible.  New Penn State students, especially incoming freshmen, are welcome to schedule a free lesson in BJJ.  We are conveniently located at Lionheart Fitness in downtown State College walking distance from all dorms and downtown apartment complexes.  Call 814/235-1015 or email us at info@titanfitness.com to schedule your free lesson.

It’s going to be a great summer at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts and we want you to be a part of it.  Classes have started with beginners classes starting next week.  For anyone who want to get involved in our classes, we encourage to contact to schedule your free lesson.  Call us at 814/235-1015 or email us at info@titanfitness.com to make your appointment.  Check out this link to find the class that best suits your schedule.

http://www.titanfitness.com/blog/schedule

Though our blog is usually reserved for discussions relating directly to martial arts or fitness, we also like to acknowledge milestones accomplished by our members.  Long-time member, Murali Haran received tenure from Penn State today.  Murali is a statistics professor in the College of Science.  Murali has been a boxing student and a personal training client for over five years.  All of us at Titan would like to congratulate you on this great achievement.

Mike (on the left) training with Os (on the right)

Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is proud to announce the addition of Osahon Omo-Osagie (“Os”) and Michael Kowalski.  Os will be overseeing the Boxing II while Mike will be running the Boxing I class during the summer semester slated to begin May 17, 2010.  The boxing program will be overseen by Head Boxing Instructor and Penn State Boxing Coach, Dave Vacco.  Both instructors have ties to Penn State Boxing, one as an assistant coach, the other as a competitor.  We invite you to review their bios at the following links.

http://www.titanfitness.com/blog/staff/osahon-omo-osagie

http://www.titanfitness.com/blog/staff/michael-kowalski

The Titan Fitness & Martial Arts summer schedule has been posted.  We will be conducting classes during under the spring schedule until Wednesday, May 5.  We will then be on break until classes resume on Monday, May 17.

Free lessons are available at any time for new students.  Contact us at 814/235-1015 or via email at info@titanfitness.com to schedule your free session.