Kodiak Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 Does anybody know how many people in the 'west' (for lack of a better term) practice martial arts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
honoluludesktop Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 In 2002, this post states that a study found about 5 million persons practiced some form of martial arts “every chance they get”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
still kicking Posted July 30, 2011 Share Posted July 30, 2011 I was gonna guess 10 million, but it was just a wild guess. At some of the tournaments I've been to it seemed like they were all there at once, and were mostly kids. No offense, kids, we love you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kodiak Posted July 30, 2011 Author Share Posted July 30, 2011 Woah, that's actually way more common than I thought, I figured 5-10% (for teenagers).Also, can somebody move this to General Martial arts? I messed up posting it apparently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UselessDave Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 I've guessed it's a lot. But I'm usually more interested in how they train martial arts. Though I understand that some people don't care: training is training. Wherever you get the motivation. "People study from boredom. They fall in love, get married and reproduce from boredom. And finally die from boredom." -Georg Buchner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chien_fu Posted September 8, 2011 Share Posted September 8, 2011 5-10 million martial arts practitioners in the US sounds like a LOT! Based on about 18,000 schools in the country, if each school has an average of about 50 students that's not even 1 million students.Sometimes (like at tournaments) it seems like everyone trains MA, but in other environments, like at work or around my community it often seems like martial arts is a fairly foreign concept still. Preserving Martial Arts legends of the past and present - The Martial Arts Lineage Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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