what are the 10 most popular MAs in your country?

[gong sau]

Harsh, rellik. Mind you, now that I think of it, 'round here's not much better:

1. Karate
2. JJJ
3. TKD
4. kickboxing (non-Thai)
5. Wing Chun
6. Taiji
7. various other gongfu styles, mostly 5 animals-based
8. Boxing
9. Judo
10. JKD, Muay Thai, Kali, BJJ

Everything after #6 is like one or max two schools of each. Pretty pitiful.

[PizDoff]

WC is big in the UK?
hmmmmm, i am seeing too many TKD studios, with stacked trophies

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There are only three types of people in the world; those who can count and those who can't.

[gong sau]

>WC is big in the UK?

Yup, huge. Not sure why, but it really seems to have spread like wildfire. There's a ton of WC stuff on the web by brits. Sociologists should do a study. :)

[Blad3]

WC is big in the UK?

Not sure why

Yes, it's mainly because it has been discovered by most to be Bruce Lee's first martial art.

[jeff_lindqvist]

In Sweden there's a Swedish Budo Society, comprised of five sections:

*Aikido - 102 clubs - 5,210 members
*Ju-jutsu - 124 - 9,846
*Karate (including Taido, Shorinji Kempo and Bujinkan Taijutsu) - 327 - 16,742
*Kendo (including Iaido, Naginata, Jodo and Kyudo) - 27 - 430
*Wushu (*any* CMA) - 55 - 2,794

Judo has it's own society. I suppose boxing and wrestling has too. As you can see, there's no FMA, IMA, MMA et.c. I'm not even sure that practitioners of these "styles" would (like to?) join the Budo Society. There are most likely clubs out there which haven't joined.

[jing shen gou]

In cincinnati,
1. tkd
2. "karate"
3. Kung fu
4-10. Variations of the theme.

the world you live in is just a sugar coated toping. beneath it is another world. The real world. and to survive there you must learn to pull the trigger!!!-Blade

[Ken Oh]

Heh, would you believe that as many places offer Haidong Gumdo in my hometown as offer TKD? The two rival TKD schools each have it and there are both HDGD and TKD clubs at the university. Of course, alot more ppl take TKD, but the number of places that teach it are equal. But, you have to remember it's a small college town with a big Korean population.

[The Wastrel]

WC is big in the UK?

Yes, it's mainly because it has been discovered by most to be Bruce Lee's first martial art.

Pathetic, maybe I should cancel my flight.

**The most miraculous power that can verifiably be attributed to "chi" is its ability to be all things to virtually all people, depending on what version of the superstition they are attempting to defend at any given moment.**

[mystsa]

1. Karate
2. Judo
3. Wrestling

[Blad3]

nah don't worry Wastrel, there is a load of good submission fighting, wrestling and grappling classes too (just not that many: If you're commign to London you're in luck.)