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This is an observation I guess more than a question but how is BJJ not more mainstream than it appears to be? We live in the Southeast, like middle of nowhere Alabama, but within 3 hours we can be at maybe 12 bjj tournaments a year. Most of those tournaments have hundreds of competitors, thousands of spectators and last all day. I can’t imagine what tournaments look like in more populated areas where BJJ has been more popular for a much longer time. I don’t know of any other martial art or competitive anything that draws the crowds and competitors like BJJ does. Travel softball or sport cheerleading draw huge crowds but fewer and far between, not near the number of events of BJJ. With that being said,it seems no one outside of those in attendance of a bjj tournament / gym know of its existence. How is something so popular but so non existent on the national radar? Water polo and shuttle board get for ESPN or Fox Sports coverage than BJJ does. I have my theories. Is it the absence of a unified voice? Is it so many factions playing the tribal warfare game of “my Brazilian lineage is better than yours”? There’s the IBJJF but that’s like the Free Masons, you have to be in the club to know about the club.
This is just a curiosity of mine, an observation that’s become an itch I just can’t seem to scratch.
This is just a curiosity of mine, an observation that’s become an itch I just can’t seem to scratch.