Where are the Karate and Kung Fu DoJo's?

[Xue Sheng]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Try Guan... traitor speaker...

:uhohh: I currently have a raging head cold :erg: that I fully believe was given to me by the devil...yeah that's it..the devil... therefore the only language I can remember at the moment is Cantonese Devil speak

OK its GUAN!!!! :disgust:

Some aikido guy (of all people! I guess aikido guys are smart ) argues that the correct world is 'guan'.

http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-9569.html

I expected this from clfsean.. but et tu dancingalone... and from an Akidoka none the less :disgust:


But you should both remember never EVER mess with a XINGYIQUAN ADDICT :mst: because revenge is a dish best served cold :EG: ....ok I have no idea what any of that means but due to this damn head cold it is the best I can do at the moment

 

[clfsean]

Yep...

館 -- Public Building

Pinyin3 - Guan
Cantonese2 - Gun

Kwoon is the most common Cantonese spelling from Yale (I think) & the most recognizable. Gun is obviously going to draw some questions on multiple levels.

Anyway... back to the scheduled topic...

 

[Hudson69]

In Colorado Springs Universal Kempo is the dominant school of martial arts. They are everywhere but of the two I have been in to check out for my kids they have the feel of a McDojo but this is two of probably 20 so I cannot speak for them all.

This is followed closely by TKD but I think that is because of the Olympic Training Center; the majority of the TKD schools here all seem to have some type of affiliation with Olympic training in some way.

If there was a third place it would have to be the MMA schools and this is thanks to the high military population; they really go in for this. They might even be ahead of the TKD schools.

There is one American Kenpo school that I know of and a few other Karate schools that I cannot think of by name/style, a smattering of miscellaneous kung-fu schools like Silver Dragon, Crane, Wing-Chun or Mantis. Surprisingly there are three schools in the area teaching Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu but no Genbukan or Jinenkan and one school of To Shin Do.

The schools are out there if you look I imagine, some are small enough that they dont advertise.

 

[jks9199]

The schools are out there if you look I imagine, some are small enough that they dont advertise.

There's a lot of MMA and BJJ schools on the map now all over, as well. And you made a great point that a lot of it depends on your area. Around DC, where Jhoon Rhee got his big commercial start, tae kwon do is big, not surprisingly. Lots of the schools can be traced back to him, whatever the name currently on the door. (There were some falling outs and splits along the way...)

About advertising -- some places just don't advertise well and aren't run well as a business, either. That's another aspect of the TKD commercialization, though it's certainly not limited to TKD. (None of the commercialization things are; I know of a Kyukushin school with a daycare/afterschool program, for example.)

 

[Tez3]

I should have known there wasn't going to be a simple one post answer :lol:

MMA suits the military as there's no syllabus as such and no gradings which means you don't fall behind when on exercise or deployment and you can pick up where you left off. We tailor each session to whoevers in, so everyone gets a good training night. It's also reasonably easy to train either with a couple of mates when away too so you can keep your training up. Suits the military too because it's another way to do fitness training, again when on deployment you need interesting things to do for fitness.