Titan Fitness & Martial Arts offers you the opportunity to give the gift of health and well-being this holiday season. Buy a friend or family member a Titan Fitness & Martial Arts gift certificate for a gym membership or one our martial arts or boxing classes. You will be giving the gift of a great start to the new year while making your holiday shopping a lot easier. Gift certificates can be purchased at the Titan office. Feel free to call the office at 814/235-1015 or email us at info@titanfitness.com for more details.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is now inviting future members to schedule their free introductory lessons in December for enrollment in our Spring 2010 classes. Completing your free lesson now ensures your spot in our popular classes and gives you a free gym membership in December leading up to the start of your class in January.
The following is our initial schedule starting during the week of December 7, 2009.
Mixed Martial Arts: Tuesday, December 8, 2009, 5 pm
Women’s Kickboxing: Wednesday, December 9, 2009, 7 PM
Boxing: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6 PM
Other free lessons will be available later in December and throughout the months of January and February.
Call us at 814/235-1015 or email us at info@titanfitness.com to get more information on scheduling your free lesson.
Note to existing students: if you have friends or family that are interested in enrolling in any of our classes, mention the free lesson to them. If they decide to enroll, you receive a $20 referral. Nothing like some cold hard cash to help during the holidays.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts will be hosting an Erik Paulson seminar October 24 & 25. This seminar marks the third year in a row that this living mixed martial arts legend has come to State College. Erik Paulson was a two-time light heavyweight shootwrestling champion. Following his fighting career, Mr. Paulson founded the fighting system Combat Submission Wrestling (CSW), one of the few complete mixed martial arts systems in the world today. It combines all elements of MMA to include boxing, Thai boxing, clinching, takedowns, and submissions. Mr. Paulson has had a tremendous influence on the present day mixed martial arts community training such notable fighters as Sean Sherk, Josh Barnett, James Wilks, and present UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is proud to be the only facility in Central Pennsylvania certified to teach Mr. Paulson’s amazing mixed martial arts fighting system. If you are interested in mixed martial arts, we encourage you to attend this amazing seminar. Prices are $150 for both days and $80 for one day of training. We encourage you to go to the seminar link of our website for more information. Spots are limited but a few are available. The best part? If you are from the Central PA region, State College, or Penn State, you don’t have to travel very far to learn from one of the all-time MMA greats. Do yourself a favor and take advantage of having the great Erik Paulson right here in State College.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts has a fan page on Facebook. We encourage all Titan members and people interested in becoming members to sign up to become a fan. Also, invite your friends to check us out. Sign up to keep track of all the goings on at Titan Fitness including class information, fighter results, upcoming events, and general information about Central Pennsylvania’s only full-time, full service martial arts and boxing facility serving the Penn State and greater State College communities.
Simply log on your Facebook account, and go to the link below to “join the club”.
After a four and a half month layoff since his last fight, Titan Fitness boxing instructor and Penn State boxer, Dan Testa won a decision in his return to the ring at an amateur event in Uniontown, PA last Sunday on August 16, 2009. After a slow start, Dan dominated his opponent Eric Parker in the second and third rounds with a barrage of attacks to the body. Dan raises his record to 7 wins against only 2 losses. With one more fight, Dan qualifies for the open division of the amateur level.
Dan Testa serves as an assistant boxing instructor at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts. Dan has achieved much in his short boxing career. He started as a boxing student less than two years ago with his first fight (a victory) coming only eight months later. During that time, he compiled an impressive record of six wins against only two defeats with many of those victories happening as a member of the Penn State Boxing Team. In March 2009, Dan qualified for the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) national tournament after his second place finish at the East Coast NCBA Regionals. Dan continues to fight in amateur events throughout the state of Pennsylvania.
Dan has worked with many students both in the classroom and personal training setting bringing a high level of boxing instruction to his students. In addition to his instructional duties, Dan is the assistant office manager at Titan Fitness. Dan is a kinesiology major who will graduate from Penn State in the Fall of 2009.
Dave Vacco is the head boxing instructor and the Boxing I instructor at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts. He also coaches the Penn State Boxing Team. Dave became involved with boxing as a student at Titan Fitness & Martial Arts five years ago. Since then, Dave has several years of experience competing as an amateur boxer under coaches John Robertson and Tommy Wilt, out of Altoona Boxing Club. Dave has also learned from Walter Kravitsky, Steve Bumbaco, and Walter Blake.
As a boxing coach, Dave has coached dozens of competitive boxers in hundreds of bouts, including four All-Americans, seven NCBA national qualifiers, and one national runner-up. In the 2009-2010 season, Penn State Boxers had 52 fights.
Dave has a life-long love of the sweet science. He teaches the “Boxer-mover” style, which involves slick footwork, out-fighting, and counter-punching. Dave treats boxing as a chess match, teaching his boxers to strategize and out-smart their opponents. The Boxer-mover, commonly called the “European Style,” or “in-and-out” style, is the most successful style on the international boxing scene, most notably utilized by the Cuban National Boxing Team. By taking advantage of the scoring system of amateur boxing, the boxer-mover style teaches a boxer to score and get out, building up points and out-hussling opponents. Dave learned this style from a former member of the Russian Olympic Boxing Team.
Dave also teaches aspects of “pressure-style” boxing, which involves relentless forward movement, head-movement, and attacking combinations. Commonly this style involves steady hussle, trapping opponents on the ropes or in the corner. This is the style Dave’s coach, Tommy Wilt, used to win 6 open-class golden glove state championships, competing on the U.S. National Team, and gaining a 21-7 professional record. Dave’s boxers have the pressure-style in their toolbox, allowing them to “switch gears” when the time is right.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is proud to announce its new schedule for the Fall 2009 semester. The fall schedule goes into effect on Monday, August 24 for existing students with beginning classes to start the week of August 31.
Introductory free lessons for new students will get underway during the week of August 17 and will continue throughout the months of August, September, and into the early part of October. Free lessons can be scheduled by calling the gym at 814/235-1015 or emailing us at info@titanfitness.com.
The following is a list of changes that have been made to the Fall 2009 schedule.
1. The youth martial arts classes will meet from 6 PM to 7 PM on Mondays and Wednesdays starting on Wednesday, September 9.
2. An intermediate mixed martial arts class will meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8:00 and will serve as a preparatory class for the advanced mixed martial arts. All students who have completed the beginners MMA and Thai boxing beginners class qualify for this section.
3. Speaking of the advanced MMA class, it will move to the Monday and Wednesday 4:30 to 6 PM time slot to accommodate the new youth class schedule.
4. There will not be a no-gi grappling program due to the fact that we are including the grappling into all sections of the mixed martial arts programs.
5. Due to the exclusion of the no-gi grappling class, the vacated time slot is now being made available for sororities to have their own sections for women’s kickboxing. Special rates will be available on a per student basis for the sorority women’s kickboxing. Interested sororities should contact us as soon as possible as these slots are limited.
6. The Filipino martial arts class will be moved to 5 PM to 6:30 PM.
The present women’s kickboxing and boxing sections will remain the same for the fall semester.
If you have questions about the new schedule, call or email us. We look forward to a great fall semester will our new and present students. Enjoy the rest of the summer. See you all very soon.
Titan Fitness & Martial Arts is presently accepting new students for summer classes. Those classes include mixed martial arts, women’s kickboxing, Filipino martial arts, and boxing. If you are interested in any of these programs, contact us at 814/235-1015 or via email at info@titanfitness.com to schedule your free lesson. Classes for existing students start during the week of May 18 with beginners classes starting the following week on Tuesday, May 26 (Titan is closed Monday, May 25 for Memorial Day).
Please visit our website for the class of your choice. You can then check our summer schedule to see if the class fits your availability. We look forward to a great summer and hope you will be a part of it with us at Titan Fitness.
Jake Winowich Advanced to Finals of the NCBA National Championships
Four Penn State boxers competed at the National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) National Championships at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland April 2-4. Dan Testa and Luke Davis lost hard-fought decisions in the quarterfinal round on Thursday. Jake Winowich and Anthony Liotta were both victorious in their first bouts advancing to the semifinals and earning All-American status. In the semis, Anthony lost a close decision in his 139 pound bout. Jake was victorious advancing to the finals on Saturday. Jake lost but fought valliantly in Sunday’s final. Congratulations to all of the fighters and coaches on a great season and on the resurgence of Penn State Boxing. Titan Fitness has been proud to be associated with Penn State Boxing and looks forward to a long-standing relationship in promoting and supporting this fine program.
