KruFit owner Jamie Bradley (left) happily presented one of her students as a champion fighter Sept. 6 at the gym’s Community Kick-Off event. Liana Mungovan competed at the IKF Midwest Regional tournament February in Fort Wayne and won the 142-147 pound welterweight female novice division. (Richie Hall)
Fishers facility opens 6,000 square-foot facility, launches Brazilian jiu jitsu program
By RICHIE HALL
KruFit in Fishers is growing, and owner Jamie Bradley invited everyone to celebrate on Saturday, Sept. 6.
The combat sports and fitness gym conducted a Community Kick-Off that afternoon to show off its expanded facility, which is located at 9824 North by Northeast Blvd., near 96th Street and Interstate 69. The facility now totals 6,000 square feet and with that is offering a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu program to go along with its popular Muay Thai and strength & conditioning programs.
The Community Kick-Off featured facility tours, food, games, face painting and an obstacle course for children that saw quite a bit of use during the afternoon. Bradley said she was “really excited” to see a solid turnout at the event.
KruFit invited the community to see its expanded facility, along with the introduction of a jiu jitsu program. (Richie Hall)
“A lot of these people are our members, but there’s a lot of people I’ve never seen before and I’m meeting for the first time,” said Bradley. She said there were families, friends and people that followed KruFit online or saw social media posts there to check out the gym.
“It’s very intimidating to schedule a class, but I think this is not intimidating,” said Bradley. “I’m coming and I’m eating ice cream and I’m meeting people and my kids get to run around. We get a feel for what it is that we do there. That was really my goal, is just to take out the fear factor for people and let them see who we are and what we do and come into our space. And hopefully they want to return.”
One of the people at the Community Kick-Off was Liana Mungovan, who showed off her champion’s belt after competing at the IKF Midwest Regional tournament February in Fort Wayne. Mungovan, from Indianapolis, won the 142-147 pound welterweight female novice division, taking the championship with a TKO 41 seconds into the third round.
“I actually didn’t know I won,” said Mungovan. “I was confused at what we were doing. I was sitting in the corner and they brought in a medic to check on (my opponent). Then I looked over at Coach Jamie and she had this giant smile on her face, and I knew I had just won the belt, and it was amazing.”
KruFit is already well known for Muay Thai and MMA fighting, and is expanding its offerings with the start of its jiu jitsu program. Bradley said KruFit has “really, really high-level jiu jitsu practitioners in the gym and one of them is already a Muay Thai coach for me, so I decided that he was going to be my head jiu jitsu coach. He’s already our head MMA coach, so it made the most sense for him to take over the program and then develop that.”
Families are also finding a home at KruFit. There are already programs for children, and KruFit will soon start a new class that allows parents and their children to participate at the same time.
“We love families here,” said Bradley. “We have so many families here.” Bradley said her vision has been a place where parents can get a workout in at the same time their kids are getting a workout in.
“We can all go home sweaty, happy, healthy, and that’s what we want here,” said Bradley.
KruFit is growing, and Bradley is already thinking that her gym will need to grow some more soon.
“It’s crazy, you would think adding 1,900 square feet, we would be set for a while,” said Bradley. “But honestly, last week in class, the whole gym was packed. And I was like, ‘We need more space.’ We literally just got this space last month and I’m like, ‘Seriously?’ I guess if you build it, they will come. You get more space, you’ll fill it up. Future plans do include continuing to grow as much as we can financially justify. I’d also love to open a second location, so that is in the works as well. Hopefully someday I can make that happen.”
For more information, visit krufit.com
