The whistlekick Report - October 2018, Competition

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This write-up is the second in the series offering survey-driven data to interested martial artists. Our last report was on enrollment, and you read the write-up right here on Martial Journal. Well, here.

If you haven’t followed the previous articles, here’s the short version. We construct surveys for martial artists (especially school owners) and then return the results to everyone that participates. Entirely free. This post covers a few of the details, but if you want the full information, you need to participate in the survey. It makes the data better for everyone.

If you’d like to learn more about our methodology, or how to participate, please visit the whistlekick website here.

Our last report focused on competition and covered the second quarter of 2018.

While every school that participated had some element of competition occurring within their students – be that in-house or external competition – these were not the majority. Expectedly, most martial arts schools do not offer training that focuses on competition, but 1/5 of them do. We also received information on what percentage of schools charged for those competition classes.

Most schools had at least one student who participated in an outside competition. 60%, in fact.

Competition, as we see it discussed often on Martial Arts Radio, is a deep and polarizing subject. While most of our guests have competed at some time or another, everyone has not. And a number of those who did previously won’t compete in the future. Some are even anti-competition.

We’ll be rolling out another report soon, this one on how schools feel about the future of the martial arts. There are some great questions in this one, so head on over and participate. We will always keep these reports free, but we do want to see them grow. The more participation, the better the data. And the better the data, the more helpful it will be for everyone. Thanks for your time!