How many different types/styles of martial arts classes/schools are close to where you live?

I normally keep a private list, but I haven't updated it in a year or so; so, I looked it up in Yahoo local listings. Most of the places they list are still around, only one or two do not exist, and a handful are new from my old lists. Several places I know to exist, but are not in the Yahoo listing, but they are included here if I know about them.

Where places list multiple styles, I categorized into the first style the list.

Some list "Taekwondo Karate", and I know them, so I lump them in just Taekwondo. Etc...

Where the school does not list a martial arts, I just list it as "family martial arts", since that's what most of the non-mentioned martial arts schools teach.

None are included for places like LA Fitness or Bally's, etc where cardio martial arts or Yoga are offered.

There are several schools that have multiple locations, I counted them separately here, since some places I know to be the same yet have different names, others have similar names but I can't tell (Cho, for instance, is as common as "smith" in Korea, so, Cho's Taekwondo is very popular - but they're all different.)

I included the sport styles, since some places teach hybrids, and since many people consider the sport styles as martial arts. Also, I include school curriculum when I know the school includes it. My town, for instance, offers wrestling in both junior high and high school, so wrestling is offered twice in my list. But in schools I am unfamiliar, I didn't include it.

Some places teach martial arts seasonally, or to a closed group. Churches, Knights of Columbus, etc do this, and I am part of such a group. But these places - my own included - is not counted. Schools also teach to a closed group, but, I included junior and high schools. There are no colleges in my radius.

Several people in town teach private lessons exclusively. I don't count them.

Also, local police stations, PAL clubs, YMCA, and churches offer things like taekwondo or women's self-defense, etc. I included them here if I knew the style to be taught publicly, but I could be missing a great many other places.

Karate... 42

Family.... 38

Taekwondo... 33

MMA... 27

BJJ... 6

Wrestling... 6 (1 commercial; rest = school)

Aikido... 5

Kickboxing... 5

WuShu... 2

TangSooDo... 1

Hapkido... 1

Boxing... 1

Shutokukan... 1

That's 167 separate postal addresses, all within a 12 mile radius of Parsippany, NJ - the largest town next to me.

Notes:

Judo is offered in several places already listed above. 4 places explicitly mention "karate+judo", or "mma/judo".

Hapkido is offered in about half the schools that teach taekwondo. Only one place, counted above, teaches exclusively hapkido.

Fencing is available in one high school, but, they do not have a team that competes, they cite a lack of interest. As a result, I didn't include it.

I live in Gothenburg, Sweden.

I don't really know how many. I know when I moved here I started looking for boxing clubs. There are 4-5 different boxing clubs. 1 of high quality the other of low quality. There are 3 different MMA gyms and 2 bjj schools.

Then you have 2 muay thai, 1 judo,1 kickboxing, 1 eskrima, 2 krav maga, I think 3 karate and no less then 8 TKD.

I've also heard of a japanese school that teaches several different japanese arts such as juijutsu, ninjutsu, hapkido and so on.

I'm sure I've missed some.

I'm not sure of the mileage. But I know there are a variety of karate, tkd, aikido, judo, tai chi. some kung fu. I think there is a kendo class or club at a couple of local colleges/universities. I'm not certain if that is within the 12 miles radius. I suspect it is not as many within that radius. Some of the karate school advertise as sports karate. I almost forgot some jujitsu schools and one or two ninjutsu schools. But they are further away but in reasonable distance.

I just passed by a school today that has eithe closed or moved that has been a staple in our area since the late 30's or early 40's. It was run by Master Shin. Judo, Aikido, and TKD(Moo do Kwan) were taught in there. I think some hapkido, but not for rank. I didn't know Aikido was there too, but I saw on their sign, but the building appears vacant. I had been told that he had moved or closed. I know that our organization honored him a few years ago and inducted him in our Hall of Fame eben though he is not part of our organization. But it is known how much he has contributed to the martial arts community over the years. When he moved to the states in the 30's or 40's he became a bodyguard for August Busch family. He doesn't look like a bodyguard standing about 5' and 125 lbs. He also had to take on challenges the winner got $100. Of curse people thought they could beat that little guy. But everyone ended with the same story. That little guy choked them out.

In addition to that there are some mma schools and some "traditional" schools that have jumped on the bandwagon claiming to teach mma.

I'm certain there are other schools as a variety of schools do not advertise. I learned this many years ago when my instructor took a few of us to train with some other instructors in schools and styles that I had not heard of at the time. They weren't listed in the phone book. They were training in places that I would not have expected.

All Styles Of Martial Arts

First, I would recommend that you talk with your instructor about your feelings of boredom. If your schools and instructor is a quality location, they will have a black belt curriculum that really takes you from 1st Dan to 5th Dan with a charted course of learning, development, and growth. Many schools unfortunatley do not have this printed or published, and some black belts can lose their way. Such a shame. As others have suggested, I would certainly recommend continuing to train in TaeKwon-Do and supplementing it with a supportive art such as HapKi-Do. While TaeKwon-Do provides the distance defense and hard style, HapKi-Do focuses on close defense and varies between soft control and hard style defensive techniques. It is a perfect complimentary art to TaeKwon-Do. As you begin to work in HapKi-Do you will see it impact the way you move, spar, think, and react in self-defense scenaro's within your TaeKwon-Do training, which is what you want ultimately. As this progresses, you will begin to develop a single combined art rather than two separate arts and this is the point that you would look to perhaps add a third complimentary or opposing art to further expand your knowledge and experience. Any such art would be a beneficial secondary art to begin to study, but I really would caution against simply giving up on your TaeKwon-Do. I've been studying it for over 15 years and there are still lessons, refinements, and new things to learn for me. I'm sure there are so for your also :) Good luck Ken C 9th Dan HapMoosaKi-Do 8th Dan TaeKwon-Do 7th Dan YongChul-Do

In my town there are about twelve schools. There's two Kenpo schools including mine, two BJJ schools, an MMA gym, some TKD schools, a Kung Fu school, Tai Chi, and some other places that just label themselves as 'martial arts centers' with no specific style named.

It's possible that there are others, but these are the ones I know of.

@edit - Great point.

There are several styles of Karate here, then there is Aikido, several schools of Judo and Taekwondo, (practitioners have made it to the Olympic and World games) MMA, Wing Chun different lineages as well, Bujinkan Ninjutsu, Krav Maga, BJJ, Boxing, Wrestling, Pankration, Sambo, Muay Thai, Tai Chi, and Kickboxing. Most probably there are others as well..

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I live in Clarksville, IN which is just across the river from Louisville, KY. Within 12 miles there is Shotokan, Okinawan Goju Ryu, Japanese Goju Ryu, Chito Ryu, Akido, Chung Do Kwan Taekwondo, ITF Taekowndo, WTF Taekwondo, ATA Taekwondo, several unaffiliated Taekwondo "styles", Muay Thai, Brazilian JuiJitsu, and a health Tai Chi. There is also a kickboxing class that supposedly teaches Judo also now ( very suspect).

A few miles outside of that limit is a good judo class.

Most of the schools are true unabashed McDojo / McDojang.

Edit: I almost forgot one of the schools also teaches Pankration.

Since moving to a smaller city there are fewer, but still several within reasonable commute.

Shotokan at a pool nearby, wado in a small private dojo. An "American Karate" place nearby, what ever that is. A TKD place not far away, and a small but surprisingly good little judo dojo. And a kickboxing place.

City is Duncan BC, on Vancouver island.