Is there a site that estimates how many people do martial arts in the US and in the world in total?
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Is there a site that estimates how many people do martial arts in the US and in the world in total?
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as far as I know, It's me, you and a couple of other guys here. The rest are just poseurs.
Kung Fu is good for you.
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LOL!
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I'd been told that NAPMA had a figure of something like 4% of the population was training at any given time.
but, I never saw that figure for myself.
4 out of 100 seems like a lot.
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NAPMA is also counting cardio kickbox, Tae Bo and Monkey Kung Fu.
Just kidding Abel, I have the upmost respect for Paulie Zink!
Just kidding about that too Abel. I had my A-Hole Flakes this morning.
I quit after getting my first black belt because the school I was a part of was in the process of lowering their standards A painfully honest KC Elbows
The crap that many schools do is not the crap I was taught or train in or teach.
Dam nit... it made sense when it was running through my head.
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Weird... my post from another thread got moved to this one....
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"A-hole Flakes"???
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Thats around 10 million people, may not be too far off.Originally posted by Oso
I'd been told that NAPMA had a figure of something like 4% of the population was training at any given time.
but, I never saw that figure for myself.
4 out of 100 seems like a lot.
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I read somewhere that there are 8 million practitioners of wing chun in the world... now if I could just remember where I read it...
I'd be pretty interested in finding out the results in the UK, Japan and worldwide too.
its safe to say that I train some martial arts. Im not that good really, but most people really suck, so I feel ok about that - Sunfist
Sometime blog on training esp in Japan
Itinerant practitioner
I think it would actually be very hard to pin a number on how many people activelly practice or train in a martial art.
simply because sooooooo many people drop out before their first year is finished!
every place I trained in a dojo or kwoon atmosphere, teh ratio of dropouts was 20x or more higher than the amount of people who stayed for 3, 5 or more years.
It didn't even matter if the instructor was A1 or the facilities were gleaming and repleat!
People find martial arts hard to do and hard to commit to simply put and so, there aren't really that many people who actually diligently train in them.
Just an observation pulled from personal experience.
Kung Fu is good for you.
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Yes, but the flow in sometimes matches the flow out in some schools.
I guess it would have to be a statistic based on the number of schools in total times an average number of students.
So how many schools are in the US?
Last edited by SifuAbel; 01-04-2005 at 03:03 PM.
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