Congratulations to the Spring 2011 Combat Submission Wrestling Level I recipients.  Back Row:  Tyler Saltsman (instructor), Paul Teupel, Cal Lampenfeld, William Shastka, Bruce Lombard (head instructor).  Front Row:  Agus Wiojaja, Bill Nash, Bruce Randall.

Spring 2011 CSW Level I Recipients and Instructors

Titan Fitness and Martial Arts continues to be the leader in the State College and the Centre region for MMA and Muay Thai development. Team Titan, located in downtown State College(127 Sowers Street), has developed over a dozen competitve amateur MMA and Muay Thai fighters in the last four years.  These dedicated athletes have combined for a 19-9-3 overall record against strong fighters from Philadelphia and Boston, and gyms from Deleware, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. 

Team Titan, training within Titan Fitness & Martial Arts will continue to test their skills, knowledge, and goals in competition.

Titan Fitness & Martial Arts MMA students train in MMA pioneer Erik Paulson’s Combat Submission Wrestling, one of the most complete mixed martial arts systems in the world.  Titan students achieved rank in CSW over the past month.  We congratulate Todd Fuller, Tyler Higgins, and Shawn Slater for being promoted to Student Level 4, Mike Putnam and Tyler Saltsman for advancing to Student Level 3, and to new students Steve Kaczowka and Seth Kimmel on achieving their Student Level 1 certifications.  They should all be proud of their accomplishments.

http://www.titanfitness.com/blog/titan-csw-rankings

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.

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

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.

On Sunday, April 25, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt and MMA Professional Fighter, Tim Carpenter paid Titan a visit and conducted a BJJ/MMA seminar.  The seminar was well received by the students of both the Gi and No-Gi training sessions.  We look forward to having Tim back again in the near future for another day of great instruction from one of the finest practitioners in this part of the United States.

At the seminar, Titan Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu student, Alex Romanenko, was promoted to the rank of Blue Belt.  Congratulations from all of us at Titan for this accomplishment.

Two Penn State boxers earned All-American status at the NCBA National Championships at West Point this past weekend.  Long-time Titan members, AJ Williams (165 lbs.) and Jay Petraitis (175 lbs.) both advanced to the semi-finals of their respective weight classes to become All-Americans.  We at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts would like to congratulate the fighters.  Additionally, kudos must go out to Penn State boxing coach and Titan Boxing instructor, Dave Vacco, in guiding his fighters to such an excellent season and result at Nationals that also included two other national qualifiers, Matt Roy and Justin Portal.

Titan Fitness & Martial Arts Youth Jeet Kune Do students received their yellow belts Monday, December 21.  The children completed their tests Wednesday, December 16.  We congratulate them on their achievement and look forward to next semester as they continue on to training for their Orange Belts.

Titan Fitness, located in downtown State College, sent four of their amateur Muay Thai athletes to fight in Philadelphia at the renowned “Evolved Fighting” Thai Boxing event.  Steve Mayzack, Jay Kearns, Mike Putnam, and Tyler Higgins fought some tough competition against opponents from Boston, Philadelphia, and Reading.  Collectively the fighter’s, who have been training with Bruce Lombard at Titan for less than one year, had an impressive showing going 2-1-1.

Mayzack, Putnam, and Kearns are all Penn State University students, as Tyler Higgins is a college student at Lock Haven University.