What’s the competitive scene look like in your area?

GojuTommy

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Been looking for KB or MT competitions around me, and unfortunately the nearest I can find is about a 3-4 hour drive making any fights I do a dedicated overnight trip.

So whats the scene like where you live?
 

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Non-existent in my area. The closest location that may hold 1 tournament a year is a 5 hour 1 way drive (anywhere else is even further). Guess that's the downside of living in a small rural town. I get the benefit of being far away from any large busy city... but then I'm too far away when I might actually have a use for one 😄.

Edit: I should clarify that this applies to the traditional kicky-punchy arts. The Judo and BJJ in the area stay pretty active.
 
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Non-existent in my area. The closest location that may hold 1 tournament a year is a 5 hour 1 way drive (anywhere else is even further). Guess that's the downside of living in a small rural town. I get the benefit of being far away from any large busy city... but then I'm too far away when I might actually have a use for one 😄.

Edit: I should clarify that this applies to the traditional kicky-punchy arts. The Judo and BJJ in the area stay pretty active.
The shitty part is within a 45minute drive around my house there’s roughly 1million people, so it’s not like I’m in a barren wasteland lol. My direct area about 20minute drive from home is around 600k people.
 

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Been looking for KB or MT competitions around me, and unfortunately the nearest I can find is about a 3-4 hour drive making any fights I do a dedicated overnight trip.

So whats the scene like where you live?
Well, I live in Thailand, so.... Lots of Muay Thai competitions.
 

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There are opportunities but travel is part of the deal.
 

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Where I live, you will not find any tournament less than 1 hour away (except for our bi-annual inter-school tournaments). Even then, they are sparse and limited in diversity. Two/three hours and there are plenty of tournaments.
 

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Been looking for KB or MT competitions around me, and unfortunately the nearest I can find is about a 3-4 hour drive making any fights I do a dedicated overnight trip.

So whats the scene like where you live?
I looked around a few years ago (a year or so before Covid, IIRC), and could only find one interesting grappling tournament within that range from me. I think I also only found one striking tournament.

I think they were easier to find when I was younger. Unfortunately, I wasn’t interested in them then - too much else occupying me.
 

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There are plenty of tournaments here, some with impressive sounding titles. But "plenty" is subjective. We've never really had much interest in tournaments. Once or twice a year, typically.
 

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3 of our guys fought yesterday. It was 6 hours away.




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Yeah that sucks. A lot more people who train would probably compete just to see what it’s like if they didn’t have to drive 3+ hours and make the whole thing into a whole day or even whole weekend trip.
 

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Back when I was still actively teaching in my home state of Georgia I sponsored several tournaments with at least three other schools in our immediate area. But even before I finally sold my school and moved, two schools closed and the sensei of the third one moved away. In other words it became quiet. My city was well over 100,000 population. No idea what is going on currently.
 
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GojuTommy

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Back when I was still actively teaching in my home state of Georgia I sponsored several tournaments with at least three other schools in our immediate area. But even before I finally sold my school and moved, two schools closed and the sensei of the third one moved away. In other words it became quiet. My city was well over 100,000 population. No idea what is going on currently.
Only thing that can be put on at reasonable prices unfortunately is TMA point fighting these days.

Where I am it’s like $5k to put on a KB/boxing/MT/MMA competition just to the state.
 

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Been looking for KB or MT competitions around me, and unfortunately the nearest I can find is about a 3-4 hour drive making any fights I do a dedicated overnight trip.

So whats the scene like where you live?
well i live in a city nobody knows about
 
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GojuTommy

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just found out there’s a MT event in my town in about 2 weeks but I’d already signed up for that event in KC. A week or so before learning of this one.
 

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