What Are the Ratios of Men to Women in Martial Arts Classes

1. Okay, I ran about a dozen searches and didn't see annihilation most this. If this has come earlier, I apologize.
   I have been with the same judo school nearly since its beginnings. For the past 9 and a half years, Bushido has probably seen somewhere around 200 students come up and become. That'due south a lot of judoka.
   Today, we promoted one of our female person students to yellowish belt. This was a rather big occasion, and I had to signal something out, considering I had just recently done the math. In nine and a one-half years, we have had NINETEEN female person students. Now, nosotros've probably had a few more that accept come up in for one class and disappeared, but of the girls who have stayed for 2 weeks or more, there have but been nineteen. I tin can recall every one of their names. Including the girl promoted tonight, merely twelve females have e'er reached a rank higher than white belt. I am the just one who started equally a white belt and stayed long enough to be promoted to black belt.
   This problem came to my attention when I found out that I was now the just tournament-playing senior female black belt judoka in all of North Carolina. All those brown belt girls that should have gotten their black belts that I played in my junior divisions went to higher and stopped doing judo.
   Does this sound familiar to any of yous?
   Is information technology simply my art? Does the high contact of judo turn off females? Are at that place more proportions of females in classes of other arts? Or is this common to all martial arts?
   I want to know your stories. Is it just judo? And if it is a common problem, WHY don't females want to join?

2. Females? Accept never seen a one in whatever of my schools (did have 1 visit Judo club once in undergrad). Call up my sibo even so has a female student, but I have not seen her. Have seen a couple at seminars though (Arnis and qin na), merely they are extremely rare.

   Just man nature. From nativity little boys similar to fight and wrestle, it's what we exercise. :woo:

3. Because women tend to like fighting a lot less than men (if at all). So a fighting class is non actually something they are in to.

   In that location is all females in one of the classes at my dojo. It'southward Cardio Kickboxing. At that place is one in a Full Contact Boot Boxing. At that place is one black belt I come across often, I think two white belts and peradventure one inbetween. I have no idea near Ti Chi only I think thre is a lot at that place.

4. I guess im non in the mainstream then. There were but about twenty adults in my dojo, but Id say in that location were vii females, one black belt. And if I remember the beach training we did with the other schools from our way, in that location was a really good amount of females, maybe even twenty%. And my style is very sparring intensive.

5. nosotros've got a pretty decent ratio, considering we let the tai chi students join our kung fu course whenever they want. Today, we had 4 women and 8 men. my private instructor is a adult female, one of 3 / 12 or so.

6. My schoolhouse is roughly 50/ 50 men & women, especially in the upper ranks.

7. There are definitely more guys than girls at my school.

   ...and the but female blackbelts are the principal'southward daughters!

   Usually there are only a scattering of girls in whatever class at my schoolhouse.

8. Yes, definitely a lack of women in MA, judging past the places I accept trained - there has e'er been a huge disparity between the numbers of women and men. This is probably less to exercise with 'not like fighting' then it is to practise with macho fatheads in MA classes. I'yard non a woman, but in a number of classes, the chauvinism and general laddish behaviour has put me off.

9. At the taiji school I go to, there are a lot of women in the course classes, both beginner and advanced. Merely hardly any in the push hands course.

   Function of it is the invasion of infinite that puts people off (from both genders), but it is also the concrete conflict involved.

   My teacher says that the sign of a good taiji school is the number of women practicing button hands. (This is usually said during the push hands session when the number of women tin be counted of the fingers of i head!)

   Some do come along. Some progress quite far with it besides. Simply even and so the proportion would have to exist at least 70% men to 30% women.

   I think guys accept a trend to want it ALL, whereas women tend to want enough.

10. From observing Academy clubs, I'd say that that sounds virtually right, although the arts that don't include throwing and groundwork (due east.g. karate and tae kwon do) seem to have a college female retentiveness charge per unit than those that do (east.1000. judo and ju jitsu).

    To give you an idea, I came through a university social club originally. Upward to yellow belt at that place were near forty men and 12 women training consistently. A lot of students dropped out at greenish belt, when we start to do more throws. By chocolate-brown belt there were three men and ii women left from that group. I was the only one from that year who has reached 1st dan. That proportion seems roughly the same every year. In our social club overall, we take about iii female person and nearly 14 male blackbelts training regularly.

    When I accept spoken to women who have dropped out prior to reaching dark-brown or black chugalug, there seem to be many different reasons:
    -Injury or fearfulness of injury.
    -Motivation.
    -Family or work commitments.

    But, virtually of these are common to men as well, so I think that the smaller proportion of women outset martial arts to men ways that it's more obvious when they pack in. Also, a lot of women start martial arts to learn cocky-defence or go fitter and aren't interested in competition.

11. 
    This could be true.

    In one of my Beginning classes some creepy guy who was one-time enough to exist my father said that he was picturing me naked while nosotros were sparring. I was so shocked that I didn't fifty-fifty have comeback.

    thank god he either quit or got kicked out!!!

    However, I call up that a few bad apples could be scaring the women abroad?

12. I am sorry to hear that Furikuchan. Information technology would have definitely been more interesting for all the girls if in that location had been more of them. Possibly you didn't have the correct type of girls. Actually this can be applied to both men and women. There are people who train for a while considering their friend started training or because of some other reason that isn't backed up with motivation and volition to advance, be promoted, compete and similar.

    At my social club I definitely don't have any problems with the number of girls. At that place are plently of them and they are of dissimilar age vi - 30. Some of them start grooming because we teach cocky-defence force, some of them due to TKD'southward popularity, or maybe becuase of the fact that there is a female person instructor, me. i don't know. Some of them train for recreational purposes, some of them would like to compete.

    Dissimilar people like different aspects of this art.

13. I started a bit over a twelvemonth and a half ago, and all this year I've been the highest ranked regularly attending female. At that place was a cherry chugalug, but she plays hockey for state, and she trains 4 days a week, and competes on a 5th. And then no time for TKD. At that place'south also a black belt, just she's suffered some severe dorsum injuries, is working two jobs, and I call back has lost a lot of motivation. She's stopped coming also.

    When I joined, a lot of the time there'd but be me and one other friend at that place from the girls, and once I was the only girl with 16 guys , now almost nights we have a minimum of three, unremarkably more than, I don't know why it's changed because total numbers haven't actually changed. The ratio doesn't actually bother me ane mode or another.

14. There's probably around twoscore-50% women in my club (seikido=TKD/aikido). Maybe I should join judo? heh heh....who can fence with odds like those?
    The practiced matter is that you didn't notice before now--in other words, information technology plain never bothered you enough or made you feel uncomfortable--and so you can probably assume it'southward not your club's fault, although if they're all dropping out early, why non try to befriend some of the women and observe out why? I'd be curious, myself.

15. Oh, mayhap 4 out of xv BB'south. 25% females in classes, lower in the higher colored belts tho.

16. in my TKD class, there are...

    tadaa! more women! (in the lower belts that is) about 50% if i sum it all up.

    in my kickboxing grade, there is ane woman

17. Unfortunately there are no statistics available and a very small number of books and manufactures on this subject area. At that place was a meeting of the Guelph School of Japanese Sword Arts in 2003 that was documented in the EJMAS that I plant extremely
    All the same y'all might find this article Putting Up With Men: Coming to acceptance of training across gender lines written by Emily Dolan Gordon very interesting as she points out

    *Things which keep women out of the dojo .... and
    *Things which keep women in the dojo

    "Men's reaction to women in the martial arts community remains multi-layered. Some are eager for new students, others know that women are a population in need of the discipline of self-defense, while others love their "boys' clubs" and want nothing to do with training the "weaker sex." Some are only happy to have someone to train with. The situation remains largely unbalanced, with exceptions.

    Something whatsoever woman wanting to train in the martial arts may find is a lack of other females in dojo. At that place aren't many women didactics, there aren't many women training and in that location's a dire lack of women in media roles demonstrating realistic and grounded budo mastery. This affects enrollment of women in a dojo. The solution is elusive. Strong, balanced senior female students in leadership roles attract women who would non otherwise see that martial arts can be performed by ordinary women."

    Find the sentence in 'bold' .... I discover that I (and other women at the schoolhouse) demand to play this role of mentor.....

    Possibly this commodity can serve the "(statistically male) instructor who is trying to solve the problem of recruitment and retention of women and for the adult female wishing to train, or wishing to farther their training, but unsure of possibilities and problems"..... as the article suggests.

18. In my BJJ club I am the only woman in the beginner classes and at that place is only 1 in the advanced. In karate, the rest is much amend. Of 2 dark-brown belts, one is female, of iii blue belts one is female person and of the lower ranks it is almost two females to every three males.

    I recall KC is right about having strong, balanced women as examples because it show the other women that it isn't a boys only club. I tin can't count how many women have joined our gild after watching their kids then seeing what fun, and skill, that the other ladies and I take during class. Nosotros try to show them that being female does not forbid them from serious report of MA.

19. i may get seriously flamed for this, but it goes for other things also. the illusion of stereotypes and predetermined expectations in one'due south mind are severely limiting. as long equally social norms of dysfunction be these misplaced attitudes of women in the dojo will continue.

    my g/f stresses over it all the time, and frankly i don't become information technology. i recall adult female in general worry most it more than the guys practice. at least at my dojang. At least 1/three to about 1/ii of our classes consist of women, except for bjj. We have 3 women in "leadership" roles that specialize in unlike arts. One is good at BJJ, one'southward adept at JKD and the other is big onto the Muay Thai...

    it works out amazingly well because any one can come up in and see at to the lowest degree one girl doing the respective art at a high level. A couple of them even went to see a young lady who's trained by Machado and has had over 74 fights.

    no one in our gym has a problem with it. basically they're treated just similar anyone else; agreed upon contact level, expected to do all exercises, etc. even across this our Tai Chi grade has an even bigger ratio of men to women with females of all ages.

    lastly, i remember a big misconception of people is that they tend to look for role models in things they want to try to accomplish. i similar to think of doing things my own way, someone else may set an example but i don't even try to follow it. sometimes this ends up with me taking the hardest way possible, only it as well prevents me from being limited past some predetermined set of standards.

    just brand a space for yourself and screw what anyone else has to say, respectfully of grade

    peace,
    joe

20. In my Aikido dojo there are about more or less 8 or 9 guys (current) and I'm 1 out of the ii females in that location. The other female being my mom. There is another girl (a friend of mine) who joined awhile dorsum simply nosotros're not sure how long she'll really stick. One thing about our group though is that since it'due south pretty small, we're all pretty close to each other like a family unit.

    Fuzzy Panther
    :Angel:

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