“You’ve Just Found The Finest in Martial Arts
and Fitness Training in Taylor Texas…
Blackland Self Defense!”

Looking for martial arts in Taylor TX?

Blackland Self Defense provides quality self-defense training, challenging fitness programs, and outstanding character development to the Taylor community.

We offer exciting and challenging classes for children and adults including:

• Evening martial arts classes for kids – Our martial arts classes for kids provide a fun and challenging martial arts curriculum while instilling positive values…
• After-school and summer karate camps (with after-school pick-up) – Children love our camps… Believe it or not, the only challenge we have with the children that come to our Karate Camps is that they don’t want to leave!
• Mixed martial arts classes (MMA) for adults – If you’ve ever watched an MMA match on TV and said, “I’d like to learn that!” – then this class is for you…
• Kickboxing classes – This class will get you in shape, and you’ll also learn the same punching and kicking combinations that professional fighters use…
• And, Fighting Fit Boot Camp™ – This is Austin’s hottest boot camp workout combining fat-burning cardio and interval training, resistance training, and martial arts conditioning! (We are the only certified and licensed Fighting Fit Boot Camp™ in Williamson County)

Classes are taught in our modern, fully-equipped, heated and air-conditioned facility conveniently located at 3118 N. Main St. Ste 101 in Taylor, TX.

All classes are taught and supervised by Black Belt Chief Instructor Mr. Wayne Psencik, assisted by his wife Mrs Christina Psencik.

When you enroll yourself or your child at Blackland Self Defense, you can be certain you’re getting the finest in martial arts and fitness instruction in the Taylor area.

Blackland Self Defense – Quality Martial Arts in Taylor TX

Call us at 512-788-0203 to get started today!

See what are students are saying…

Thanks to Coach Christina Reid Psencik and Coach Wayne Psencik, you both have helped tremendously in my martial arts/fitness goals! Keep up the hard work and keep pushing us beyond what we think we are capable of…. Todays class was GREAT!

Stephen B.       Hutto Tx

I lost 50 pounds!

Ever since my return from Iraq in 2009, I was struggling to keep my weight in check, and gained until I hugged the 300 pound point. I tried the gym, the Hike and Bike, bought the NordicTrack treadmill, and all other usual attempts to lose that extra person I was carrying. I just couldn’t muster the energy, even with all the vitamins I took. The doctors at the Veterans Administration kept telling me that my blood pressure was too high, my blood sugar was borderline diabetic, and my cholesterol was through the sky. I ate veggies like a rabbit for months, and still no results.

In May/June 2011, I started to feel real bad. My heart was racing; I urinated twice an hour, and didn’t even want to get out of bed. In mid June, I went to the Emergency Room, and after many tests, my blood sugar showed to be well over 400. I was totally devastated, what is a 49-year-old unmotivated, overweight guy with bad knees to do? I had a gym membership for the last 5 years, went back there a couple of times without results.

At the end of July, an advertisement was hanging on my doorknob from some Martial Arts place about to be opened in August. Blackland Self Defense and Fitness opened its doors in the first week of August, and I gave it a shot. The owners, Wayne and Christina Psencik asked me, “What are your goals?” I told them the obvious, “lose weight, and become healthy!” Every other month, my schedule would not jive with the School’s schedule, they worked with me to ensure that I had all the opportunity to reach my goal. Little did I know that this day changed my life for the better.

I didn’t have time for “The Resolution” to come around, tried different things on my own, and now pinned my hopes on The Psenciks. Since August I have lost over 50 pounds, lost 6 inches of my waist, made the doctors proud of my cholesterol levels, blood sugar levels, and my blood pressure. More importantly, I feel good about myself, and feel healthier than I felt for many years. The bonus is, that I am a Hawaiian Kenpo Yellow Belt, able to hand out a Texas Whooping if one chooses to pick on this old dude.

The Psenciks have motivated me along this road. It is not easy at all, and I still talk myself out of doing one more sit-up, or one more push-up. Then I hear one of my coaches cheering me on, “Let’s go Tony, 20 seconds left, you can do it!” Even my fellow classmates have become family, and we cheer each other on. The coaches have pushed me beyond what “I thought” were my limits, and my fitness level is already beyond what I expected from the onset. I now do all the classes Blackland Self Defense has to offer. Hawaiian Kenpo/Jiu Jitsu, Fighting fit boot camp, Kickboxing, Mixed Martial Arts, and sparring. Every class has something I just love, and works muscles I didn’t think I had. Who would have thought an old guy to have that kind of condition?

I want to thank Wayne and Christina Psencik from the bottom of my heart for being instrumental in the improvement of my health. Not only has my health improved, I look forward to do things again in the weekend, do more chores around the house, in short, improved quality of life. 2012 is looking real good indeed, with a head start like I have, the sky is the limit. I feel so blessed and hope that this story may be of some help to others to pursue their quest of health and weight loss. My 50th birthday in March is looking good for me, and hopes it will for you too. Happy New Year!

Tony VanBoekhout.

Give Wayne and Christina a call; they will get you in shape: