Gender ratio poll

Thanks, everyone, for replying. From what I have read on this topic over the years, the ratio sounds higher than what it was in the past.

BuDoc: thanks for contributing. I didn't mean to discount the private lessons...just trying to keep it simple. I suspect your high female student count probably due to your teaching ability. That, or your dashing nature.

We have about 40-50% women in our adult group but only about 10-15% in the junior section.

We are basically a goju derivative but specialise in a lot of weapons and some BJJ style grappling.

IOW a bit of something for everyone!

oops, was a bit too enthusiastic with the typing
happens to me more often. but I guess you knew what I meant
And I can always use the excuse that I am not english-speaking from origin

While maybe 40% of the kyus are women, only 10% of the BBs are.

Out of the seniors at my dojo, there are 4 males, and im the only female. the junior class is abit different, about 7 females and 5 males...oh, and our Sensei is male

we have 9 females out of a total of 40 students.
Not a bad ratio compared to other schools I have been to.
I can also see a change in the ratios in recent years. Something which is very good to see!
Some girls in our class flow like it aint no thing!

bump

so has anyone tallied this up yet? what are the statistics? I'm guessing 60%m/40%f

Krav Maga - 75%!

Kung Fu - 50%

BJJ - 10%

Kali - 2 female out of 6 students

Tai Chi Chuan - 50% female, I'm the other 50%.

(% are female students.)

Hello,

My kickboxing class - Female 10 Male 7

Higher belts - Female

Regular Go-ers! ( ) - 50/50

Long-term students, (over 3 yrs) - Female 4 Male 2


Jabber

Good question...can't count exactly but I'm sure there are more males than females in my dojo. I can only talk about the intermediates (4th kyu green to 1st kyu brown) because the whites, yellows and oranges train at a separate time.

In my class there are some four girls including me and some seven or eight guys. (These are the regulars. There would be more guys if some of the ones who've seemed to have left/taken a break came back.) My chief instructor is male (8th dan) and I have two other instructors, one a male sandan and the other a female nidan.

Around 1/3 female, although this is not representative of the system as a whole which is more like 10 or 15% female with the top ranks being held by men. This class has more women, I think, because one of the senseis is female.

I do karate. In the adult class it's probably 50:50 overall. Of the black belts 5 males and 3 females. Kids 50:50 but more of the higher ranks are guys.

70% male to 30% women over all for the school. How many show up to each class I go varies. I have been there when it was half and half and gone when no women show up and any where in between. The day classes that I have gone to however is mostly women which is nice as you can then train with the Instructor one on one for partnering drills.

In our Karate class there are about 15 - 20 males and 1 female. (average class size about 6-10)
In the kickboxing class there are about 12 males and 2 females.

I always thought that our dojo was really small and hardly had any members, but it seems that it is about average size from what I have read.

We are currently around 25-30% female in our dojo because a few ppl have left.

half and half

In our HKD dojang, the majority of the begginners are women, than as the ranks get higher, the testing gets harder, the ranks thin (male and female)! The HKD we learn as compared to others is really hard, I see TKD sites and think man they got it easy. I suppose we are trained by the military so it would be alot harder than a general public class!

I am ashamed to say that there are no female black belts in HKD. We try to encourage them, but it is harder for women to find time for serious training....with the children,the responsibilities of the home, job, husbands etc.
We still live in a very traditional society and everyone has there place, unfortunately the place of the women is not in the dojang!!

Now before any one goes off, I dont believe this to be right , my wife is about to start and I support her, and I think that the fact that no BB exist is driving her to make history. Unfortunately she just had a caesarian birth so she needs to rest up for at least a year!I try to involve my female friends and relatives, but they buy into the traditional role idea as well! Oh well this will all change one day hopefully! Women need to take self defense classes more than men do, they are attacked more than men are. Men attack men for stupid reasons, men attack women for different reasons and women need to kick some tail, to get some respect!!

*bows respectfully*

Why is it that the gender that most needs "self defense" training isn't hitting up those gyms more so then us big-headed, testosterone filled guys? It's a shame.

In my boxing gym years ago we had one female student, and one asst. to the instructor. The female student was great too ..man she was quick.

-Ket

I don't know Ket ... maybe more guys are doing it because they are the ones feeling threated and "maybe" some women feel that their man will protect them or that it will never happen to them. Or maybe martial arts is a stereotype by some women that it is for men because it involves sweating, punching, kicking ad rolling around on the ground. Good question.

Funnily enough I know of a few women that quit because they were told to cut their fingernails!

*bows respectfully*

Hm....wouldn't be better to have long nails? Maybe if it's necessary to scratch or gouge?

Try making a fist with long nails.


Ever had a girl cut her nails because she was told to quit?

Oh. I wasn't thinking THAT long but that makes sense.

Guys...do you think you could stay on topic.

Thanks

But we're oh so good at drifting Harlan!

And to stay on topic. The old Dojo in CA I was in, was a little under half. Mainly because when I joined my partner in crime at the time (girlfriend) joined as well. When a Dojo has one Femme in it, more come. If there are only males... Its a less inviting environment for other females to practice in.

in the dojo i'm in now there are about 12 females and about as many guys, maybe a couple more depending on attendance.

there is also the bursar lady who doesn't actually participate but seems to know loads about karate. last week she sat and corrected my pinan nidan which was scary when she piped up with something like 'you need to straiten your shoulders on that block, and its two knife hand attacks'.

Sounds like the stories of Funakoshi's wife!

Nails are good as Harlan said only in short distances. You have to actually (if you plan on doing a lot of gouging scratching, as are some strikes in Gung-Fu's focus) strengthen your nails through diet. Conditioning doesn't work on your nails do to the nature of their formation.

I've seen people pull fake nails out of their neck before, it didn't do that much damage. I've seen the face of an rapist who was attempting to assault one of our girls at the dojo... *grimaces* Short nails, Palm strike to nose, followed by rake to the eyes... Its a simple technique taught everywhere... ow...

Folks, let's try to keep to the topic, please.

Harlan never said any such thing.

Please close this thread. Thank you.

guess it wasn't closed. Don't know if there is any current value...but bumping it anyways.

In my TKD class it's about 20 students. As far as females to males in the adult class we have 4 females counting myself. I'm the highest ranking female (not that I'm bragging so I don't want to come off as being such) and the instructor's daughter is the second highest. The other two are white belts and seem pretty dedicated.

Casey

Well, since it's a gender RATIO poll, I'll give a ratio- men:women is about 3:2.

at karate
adult class 1:8
kids class 3:10
in males favour

I practice bjj and thers only guys its such a shame cuz bjj is such a contact sport I've only seen once a women practicing bjj with guys

as for sanshou thers about 3 girls and 6 guys somwher around ther

My school:
- Adult class roughly 22 students 5 females - 23%
--- 3 of the females are wives of male students
--- 1 of the other females has 2 sons and a daughter in the kids class

- Kids class roughly 35 students 13 females - 37%
--- 9 of these females are related (daughters or sisters) to other students

Ashihara karate - Wythenshawe, Manchester

Adult Class - 100% Male

Children Class - 70% female, 30% male

Hello Harlan:

Kara-te probably on average 25-30% depending on a million different factors both known and unknown. Some classes have far far more women than that while others have slightly less

But the CLEAR majority of classes we run won't fit your core criteria. In terms of pure numbers the majority of classes/programs are under 18 years of age...

Jeff

Long thread...I had to check back to see what 'criteria' you refered to. I think the reason I excluded kids classes was because I suspect most kids are forced to go. I was interested in the ratio of men/women that get to MA and make the assumption that all of them want to be there.

Seeing as Wing Chun is designed for women we do have a good number of them attending. I would say about 60/40 Men/women