Gleason's Gym Jersey Shore of Long Branch

Gleason's Gym Jersey Shore of Long Branch is a martial arts school in Long Branch, New Jersey, located at 515 Bath Ave. The gym trains amateur and professional boxers alongside boxers of all ages and abilities, and no experience is necessary to start. Its offerings extend beyond boxing to fitness classes and Krav Maga. It is a partnership with Coach Jacklyn Atkins and Gleason's in Brooklyn, owned by Bruce Silverglade, and it holds a 5.00 rating from the customers who have reviewed it.

The gym describes itself as a classic boxing environment built around sweat, hard work, and camaraderie, and its stairway features champions of the past and present. It is a training center for USA Boxing amateurs across youth, teen, adult, and Masters divisions, and it hosts many of New Jersey's amateur and pro fights, including charity fights for nonprofits. The space is set up for USA Boxing regulations. The gym is also home to youth fitness and mentoring programs run through the New Jersey Give a Kid a Dream Foundation at its Long Branch and Atlantic City Showboat locations.

The story of the gym begins in September 1999, in the basement of the Annex school on Third Avenue in Long Branch, where Jackie Atkins began volunteering at the Long Branch PAL Boxing Club and assisted Navy Boxer Donald Lee. When Lee's health began to fail, Atkins kept the boxing program alive. When classes are not in session, the 5,000 square foot loft-style facility becomes an event and production space for private parties, corporate events, photo shoots, and film and television productions, with wood flooring, high ceilings, built-in pin lighting, and an off-street entrance. Specialized rates are available for nonprofits and media.

The gym sits on Bath Ave, about 0.1 miles from Norwood Park and roughly half a mile from Holy Trinity Elementary School and Amerigo A. Anastasia School. Long Branch City Hall is about 0.6 miles away, and the Long Branch Free Public Library is about 0.7 miles away. The gym is less than one mile from Long Branch's beaches.

For anyone in Long Branch who wants to learn the sweet science or train like a champion, Gleason's Gym Jersey Shore of Long Branch carries a NYC boxing tradition to the Jersey Shore.