What's the popular art in your city? [Archive] - MartialTalk.Com

tarabos

08-18-2002, 01:22 PM

i can't really say that i live in a "city" per say, kennett square just isn't that big. and for the most part, martial arts isn't very popular. i would say the biggest school there is a TKD/KravMaga school. most of the people there are people who want to try out KravMaga after seeing one of their ads, commercials, web advertisments, newspaper or magazine articles, the list goes on. Those Krav guys really know how to advertise and have mastered the business end of the art.

i'm close to wilmington, delaware however, where the arts are a little more popular. i can't really say who is the biggest there though. there is such a wide variety, i don't think there is one style that is bigger than the other. that sounds like a good thing to me.

tmanifold

08-18-2002, 01:24 PM

It is NHb or NHb style jujutsu. Here it used to be kicboxing but when the head instructor at the most popular Kickboxing gym got the grappling bug most of the city's martial arts schools followed.

Tony

GouRonin

08-18-2002, 01:30 PM

Originally posted by tmanifold
It is NHb or NHb style jujutsu. Here it used to be kicboxing but when the head instructor at the most popular Kickboxing gym got the grappling bug most of the city's martial arts schools followed.

When I was out in Vancouver I stayed in West Van but in the city I saw more Aikido places than I could shake a stick at!

Must be different on the island eh?

Aikikitty

08-18-2002, 02:24 PM

I was looking in the phone book and I'd have to say that here in New Orleans we have about the same number of Karate as Tae Kwon Do and that's quite a few.

I thought we didn't have any Kenpo schools here because I've looked before but now I find that we have 1 Kenpo Karate school. I'm surprised! Someday I'd like to go visit so I can finally go see what it LOOKS like!;)

GouRonin said:--"When I was out in Vancouver I stayed in West Van but in the city I saw more Aikido places than I could shake a stick at!"

Wow! I can't imagine Aikido being so common ANYWHERE!!! Most people have never even heard of it around here! I am blessed to have a good Aikido dojo but besides us, there is only one other in my city.

Robyn :asian:

:yinyang:

arnisador

08-18-2002, 03:00 PM

It's Tae Kwon Do here in Nowhere, Indiana.

theneuhauser

08-18-2002, 03:08 PM

ive been to nowhere, and i think that the number one style there is cow tipping!

theneuhauser

08-18-2002, 03:10 PM

oh yeah, and phoenix, az has an awesome mix of various schools and styles.

Kirk

08-18-2002, 03:16 PM

Definitely TKD in San Antonio! They're all over! Not only do you
see one every few blocks, but every S.U.V. has a sticker of a
kicker, the name of the school on top, and the kid's name under
it! There's always the same icon with a soccer ball on the other
side. :shrug: And I don't believe in stereotypes.

What's funny is .. a LOT of TKD schools use "Karate" signs to
advertise their schools.

arnisador

08-18-2002, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by Kirk

What's funny is .. a LOT of TKD schools use "Karate" signs to
advertise their schools.

EVERYBODY does that, it seems--FMA too. It drives me crazy!

Oh, and you may be right about Nowhere theneuhauser
.

Kirk

08-18-2002, 03:17 PM

Originally posted by Rich Parsons

The most popular is American Karate. So Japanese or Korean art modernized for us Americans.

In the 80's it was Modern Arnis, it seemed like every art / school out there was also teaching Modern Arnis for the weapons.

Man, I WISH that was the case where I live. So many here teach
Arnia/Escrima/Kali as a side art. I can't find one here that teaches
it as it's main art. It'd a be a great cross training art.

Master of Blades

08-18-2002, 03:50 PM

Americans................:shrug: Down here in London England its deffinantly TKD for some ungodknown reason! theres also a lot of Wing Chun places around. All the great masters stop by and open up a school before leaving and never coming back!:asian:

GouRonin

08-18-2002, 04:13 PM

Originally posted by The Opal Dragon
I was looking in the phone book and I'd have to say that here in New Orleans we have about the same number of Karate as Tae Kwon Do and that's quite a few.
I thought we didn't have any Kenpo schools here because I've looked before but now I find that we have 1 Kenpo Karate school. I'm surprised! Someday I'd like to go visit so I can finally go see what it LOOKS like!

You... live in the same city as Huk Planas... and you don't study with him....

:disgust: :mad: :ticked: :waah: :flammad: :angry: :eek: :mad: :confused: :cuss: :erg: :wah: :miffer: :vu:

I have no words for what I am feeling right now. Excuse me while I go hit myself repeatedly with a rubber mallet.

Rich Parsons

08-18-2002, 04:30 PM

Aikikitty

08-18-2002, 05:52 PM

Rich Parsons

08-18-2002, 06:12 PM

Originally posted by The Opal Dragon

WHO???????????????????????:confused: :confused: :confused:

Robyn :confused:

Robyn,

It is a Kenpo Thing.

One of the GM's of American Kenpo.

Rich

tmanifold

08-18-2002, 06:18 PM

In Victoria, we have the usual Karate schools and TKD schools and so forth, but almost all of them will include some sort of NHB style training. For NHB schools, there are only a few dedicated ones but for biggest range of people teaching one thing it is NHB. Also Kickboxing has always be huge here. I guess it comes from have a two time world champion in a relatively small town as well as canadian Champs, NA champs and K-1 USA champ Mike McDonald sometimes trains over here, although he is from Vancouver.

GouRonin,
Yeah we have a couple Aikido schools out here too. As well as a couple Judo clubs and a Bujinikan dojo.
Tony

Aikikitty

08-18-2002, 06:52 PM

Originally posted by Rich Parsons

Robyn,

It is a Kenpo Thing.

One of the GM's of American Kenpo.

Rich

Thanks Rich! :asian: I wonder if he's still around here. I've never seen any advertisements and the first I ever heard of "Kenpo" at all was from this site.

Robyn :asian:

fissure

08-18-2002, 07:07 PM

In West Palm Bch, its TKD followed by various stlyes of Karate.
They mostly all use 'Karate' somewhere in the name/description
i.e 'TKD-Korean Karate' or 'Kenpo Karate'.

karatekid1975

08-18-2002, 08:08 PM

I don't live in a city, but in the greater Rochester area, it's definitely TKD. The next poplar is Isshin-Ryu karate. Most of both are McDojangs, though. Sad .... very sad. There is a few other styles around, but you have to really look to find them.

Where I lived in NJ, it was TSD and TKD. But there was several styles to choose from there. It was kinda cool to have so many choices :D But I took TSD.

arnisador

08-18-2002, 08:14 PM

I grew up in Buffalo and studied Isshin-ryu there in someone's basement. Great stuff. We would visit his colleague, with whom he came up in the ranks, at his McDojo on occassion. Lots of tournamnet sparring then.

My first tournament was in Rochester at RIT. Lots of Isshin-ryu there.

San Jose, where I used to live, had a great variety including lots of FMA.

Shinzu

08-18-2002, 11:42 PM

there is a mix of TSD, isshin ryu, kempo, and kung fu here in N.E. PA

TLH3rdDan

08-18-2002, 11:58 PM

as much as it saddens me to say it but here in Nashville it seems to be Tae Kwon Do... followed by various "karate" schools... plus we just got our first kenpo school its on my list of new schools to visit

GouRonin

08-19-2002, 12:26 AM

Originally posted by The Opal Dragon
WHO???????????????????????

:eek:
AUUUUUUGH!

Originally posted by The Opal Dragon
I wonder if he's still around here. I've never seen any advertisements.

:eek:
WAUUUUUGH!!!!
:flushed:
**running away screaming and flailing my hands**

GouRonin

08-19-2002, 12:34 AM

Originally posted by Rich Parsons
It is a Kenpo Thing.

One of the few things left in Kenpo that I consider to be good and pure and holy. **sniff**

Originally posted by Rich Parsons
One of the GM's of American Kenpo.

Actually he's a 9th. He refuses to take a 10th on as it was the Old Man's thing. That makes him a "Master of the Arts" if you look at the ranks. He never, ever, in the time I have known him, claimed to be a GM. In fact, he just wears a black belt. In fact, the last time Renegade had him in he just wore an arnis uniform and no belt at all. (His Gi got lost on the plane) he was a 7th at the time of Parker's passing I believe. Then his 8th and 9th did not come by associations but the signitures of many different people all asking him to do so. Filing cabinets full. I believe Bill Wallace was the man who kicked him in to 9th.

GouRonin

08-19-2002, 12:40 AM

Originally posted by theneuhauser
ive been to nowhere, and i think that the number one style there is cow tipping!

When I was younger and I lived in rural areas I was a proponent of this style.
:rolleyes:

Kirk

08-19-2002, 12:46 AM

Originally posted by GouRonin

You... live in the same city as Huk Planas... and you don't study with him....

:disgust: :mad: :ticked: :waah: :flammad: :angry: :eek: :mad: :confused: :cuss: :erg: :wah: :miffer: :vu:

I have no words for what I am feeling right now. Excuse me while I go hit myself repeatedly with a rubber mallet.

He lives in New Orleans, but he doesn't have a school there.
Does he take private students? I'm not sure that he does.

Originally posted by GouRonin

Actually he's a 9th. He refuses to take a 10th on as it was the Old Man's thing. That makes him a "Master of the Arts" if you look at the ranks. He never, ever, in the time I have known him, claimed to be a GM. In fact, he just wears a black belt. In fact, the last time Renegade had him in he just wore an arnis uniform and no belt at all. (His Gi got lost on the plane) he was a 7th at the time of Parker's passing I believe. Then his 8th and 9th did not come by associations but the signitures of many different people all asking him to do so. Filing cabinets full. I believe Bill Wallace was the man who kicked him in to 9th.

Actually, I heard (read) the opposite of that.
Taken from www.ckfonline.org :

"After Parkers passing other associations were formed, one of
which Promoted Planas to Eighth degree in 1991 and in 1995
several associations joined together to promote him to 9th Black.
Though his expertise is mainly in Kenpo he has studied many
other arts including Judo, Tai Chi, Kung Fu, Shotokan, Silat and
the Filipino arts of his heritage being half Filipino."

.

GouRonin

08-19-2002, 12:52 AM

The 8th was by an association. The 9th was by many groups, associations and people.

H@pkid0ist

08-19-2002, 08:07 AM

Here in my neck of the woods in the Hampton Roads area of VA it seems to prevailiantly be TKD ( big surprise ) and Shorin Ryu.
One of the first schools around here was Shorin Ryu. Since then they have sprang up all over. We have other styles but not as many of their schools. Hap Ki Do, Shito Ryu, Aikido, Small circle Aikido, Krav Maga, Wing Chun, Hung Gar, A Black Dragon school, Hwa Rang Do a little north, Kali, Shotokan, and Kuk Sool Kwan here on base. No doupt a little more out there that I'm not aquainted with.:cheers:

Chiduce

08-19-2002, 11:38 AM

The most popular martial art in my city is Tae Kwan Do.
Sincerely, In Humility;
Chiduce!

karatekid1975

08-19-2002, 12:42 PM

arnisador,

"I grew up in Buffalo and studied Isshin-ryu there in someone's basement. Great stuff. We would visit his colleague, with whom he came up in the ranks, at his McDojo on occassion. Lots of tournamnet sparring then.

My first tournament was in Rochester at RIT. Lots of Isshin-ryu there."

Dang, it's over there too, Arnis (Buffalo)? Sheesh. I live about 45 minutes from RIT. I have a friend who just graduated from there. She did Isshin-Ryu. Now she does the Navy LOL.

I guess Western NY is the hot spot for Isshin-Ryu.

FLY

08-19-2002, 01:54 PM

When I was out in Vancouver I stayed in West Van but in the city I saw more Aikido places than I could shake a stick at!

Must be different on the island eh?

To answer your question Gou, I think TKD is the most popular art on the Island. In my area(where I have lived for over 20 years), TKD has always been around to the best of my memory, but the other arts seem to come and go. There are still a few different karate styles out there (I believe Shito-Ryu and Wado-kyu are still around) but you don't see them advertised anywhere.
In the phone book there are a couple TKD schools, 1 Aikido and 1 karate(style not mentioned), plus the Kenpo dojo that I am currently training at.
There are a total of 3 dojos on the entire Island that teach Kenpo, which leads me to my own question.

Tmanifold,
seeing as though 1 of the 3 Kenpo dojos on the Island is located in Victoria, have/do you ever train at 'Professional Self-Defense'?
just curious.

FLY.
:asian:

Guro Harold

08-19-2002, 02:06 PM

Originally posted by Chiduce

The most popular martial art in my city is Tae Kwan Do.
Sincerely, In Humility;
Chiduce!

With all due respect to Chiduce, Greensboro is interesting because there are as many Tae Kwon Do schools as there are
Japanese Go Ju Ryu schools. The instructors in the GoJuRyu schools however are mainly spread out amongst the recreational centers, yet are very pervasive.

Palusut

Master of Blades

08-19-2002, 05:11 PM

Seems TKD is the most popular MArtial Art. I wonder what attracts people to it, or is it just cuz its the only one around?

Eraser

08-19-2002, 05:47 PM

Here in Windsor we have many styles.. Hapkido (my fave, wink wink) AIkido, Karate, Kickboxing, Boxing, Muay Thai, TKD, Judo, ummm im sure there's more.. but im just to lazy to go and get the phone book right now.. LOL:p

Eraser

08-19-2002, 05:48 PM

Silly me.. I forgot Gou's favorite one... Mud Wrestling at Studio 4!!
HA HA HA HA HA... gotchya Gou!!:D ;)

arnisador

08-19-2002, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by Master of Blades

Seems TKD is the most popular MArtial Art. I wonder what attracts people to it, or is it just cuz its the only one around?

This has been discussed on our TKD forum. In my opinion it's that it's well-marketed and kid-friendly.

tmanifold

08-19-2002, 07:54 PM

FLY,

I have heard that is a good school and that ralph chinnick is a good guy. Case in point though, Professional Self Defence teaches shootfighting under Bart Vales organization. I took Kenpo for a little while at a school in Langford but it was kind of shady. Learned alot though.

Actually victoria has a very electic blend of martial arts for such a small city. We have Capoiera, Ninjutsu, A couple of kung fu qwan(hung gar, if you can find it, Wing Tsun, Tai chi and a commercial blend) we used to have a FMA instructor by the name of fred shinahan but he may be in Vancouver now, kenpo, judo, jujutsu, some BJJ, aikido. Any way a good blend. If we only has a silat instructor I would be very happy.

Tony

Rob_Broad

08-19-2002, 08:35 PM

Originally posted by The Opal Dragon

Thanks Rich! :asian: I wonder if he's still around here. I've never seen any advertisements and the first I ever heard of "Kenpo" at all was from this site.

Robyn :asian:

Robyn,

Maybe you can find something useful thru this link

http://www.americankarate.com/planas/

Aikikitty

08-19-2002, 09:32 PM

Originally posted by Rob_Broad

Robyn,

Maybe you can find something useful thru this link

http://www.americankarate.com/planas/

Thanks!!!!! :asian: :asian:

Robyn :asian:

The 14th Style

08-20-2002, 03:09 AM

Here in Albuquerque, we have a large amount of Tae kwon do schools. Including Grandmaster Hee ll cho's Tae kwon do center. Followed by Kenpo, Kick boxing, Kung fu. Etc..
We have a lot of teachers that are supposed to be pretty high ranked living out here. Or at least that's what I am told.

Russ

GouRonin

08-20-2002, 03:22 AM

Originally posted by Eraser
Silly me.. I forgot Gou's favorite one... Mud Wrestling at Studio 4!! HA HA HA HA HA... gotchya Gou!!

If I remember back to my university days Tuesdays was baby oil night. The mud got to hard to set up etc.

That's just the rumour I heard...

RyuShiKan

08-20-2002, 06:44 AM

Originally posted by GouRonin

In every city there is an art that everyone seems to practice or do a varient of. ................What about your city?

#1 is golf. :rofl:

Martial arts in Japan have a very low popularity rating.

Sad but true.

All younger Japanese want to do now is dress up like East L.A. Gangbagers and pretend like they are rappers.:rolleyes:

Only problem is they can't rap to save their life and they aren't even close to being as tough as the weakest, sickliest, gutless gangbanger in the US.

vincefuess

08-22-2002, 03:34 AM

The Dallas/ Ft Worth area is blessed with an ABUNDANCE of martial arts schools. TKD schools can be found in virtually every strip mall, while most every other art has a presence here as well. At last count we had eight American Kenpo schools. I know of three Brazilian Jujutsu schools. A couple of Hapkido schools, and a pretty staggering number of Kung Fu schools. Not to mention several Judo schools.

This area has always seemed to a martial arts melting pot, going back to the 60's.

Andi

08-22-2002, 08:44 PM

I'd have to say Karate is the most popular MA in my corner of the city- Shotokan is the one that I always seem to notice. Might just be the old thing of everything being dumped in the "karate" category though. Hmmm.

Andi

Kempojujutsu

08-22-2002, 09:14 PM

We have three different schools in are town of Effingham. the pop is around 12,000. There is a ATA Tae Kwon do school, that is right across the street from me. Shudokan karate, which is what I study first. They teach out of the park district. They also got kick out of where I am now teaching. Then there is us. We teach a wide array of stuff. Main art is Kempojujutsu in that art itself we teach mainly self defense, kobudo weapons, Escrima, Grappling. I believe we have the biggest following with the TKD school are real close second, and shudokan has around 10-15 students.
Bob :D

Shinzu

08-23-2002, 03:21 PM

new york was the same way. on every other block there was a difference MA school. it kind of made it hard to decide if you were not familar with the arts, but most of the schools were legit.

here in PA it's the opposite. it is very hard to find different styles, and they are far and few to choose from.

Kirk

08-23-2002, 03:28 PM

Where in PA are you?
I found the same to be true, just outside of Pittsburgh.

Shinzu

08-23-2002, 03:44 PM

i live in NE PA.

i switched to TSD after having no luck finding a shotokan school. all for the better though, i really enjoy it :)

FLY

08-23-2002, 06:09 PM

Originally posted by tmanifold

Actually victoria has a very electic blend of martial arts for such a small city. We have Capoiera, Ninjutsu, A couple of kung fu qwan(hung gar, if you can find it, Wing Tsun, Tai chi and a commercial blend) we used to have a FMA instructor by the name of fred shinahan but he may be in Vancouver now, kenpo, judo, jujutsu, some BJJ, aikido. Any way a good blend. If we only has a silat instructor I would be very happy.

Tony [/B]

WOW! I had no idea that Victoria had that much variety of MA schools. I assumed that one would have to go to Vancouver to find arts like Capoiera etc. Unfortunately, Victoria is still a little too far for me to drive to class :( Hopefully by the time that I'm ready to expand my horizons, I will have a little more choice than what's available today...until then, Kenpo will do just fine. ;)

FLY

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