Hanzou
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The Top 20 Most Popular Martial Arts in the United States
Scraping Yelp data from all 50 states to see how Americans fight
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If this report is accurate, it aligns pretty well with my anecdotal experience. There's tons of boxing gyms out there, and it's pretty easy to find a boxing group at most gyms. The number of BJJ gyms have simply exploded in the last 15 years. I guess the BJJ fad is still going strong after all these years. Since there's so many Karate styles out there, I'm not surprised to see Karate be at the #3 spot.
Very surprised to see how low MMA is. I figured it would be higher. Not surprised to see how low Judo is, but I wonder if its steep decline is because of Bjj.
Anyway, I thought this was interesting.