Which is more marketable in US?

[SAMURAI SPIRIT]

Just doing a consumer trend analysis of martial arts schools. Which is more marketable in USA? A pure Muay Thai school? Or a pure BJJ school? What in your opinion contributes to the popularity of one over the other?

Id love to hear from people who train in both. Thanks.

 

[Tayski]

BJJ is more popular right now especially in the US just because of MMA. It's more "trendy" as such, and I guess there's probably more legit instruction available for BJJ than Muay Thai in the US too.

 

[SAMURAI SPIRIT]

Why though? When most MMA fights are faught mostly stand up, then why is BJJ more popular?

 

[Monte Moku]

Why though? When most MMA fights are faught mostly stand up, then why is BJJ more popular?

Generally you see grapplers do better than strikers in MMA. You need to have good submission grappling skills to survive on the ground in MMA and with MMA being pretty big in the states... you get the popularity of BJJ. Also, the US has a pretty nicely sized Wrestling scene that was basically a built-in base for BJJ schools to plug into when they opened, so it kinda just went from there too.

 

[Tayski]

Why though? When most MMA fights are faught mostly stand up, then why is BJJ more popular?

What Royce Gracie did at UFC 1 and the hype that followed around BJJ, and also the fact that you could easily have something else than MT as your stand-up for MMA (boxing, karate, kickboxing, sanda...) while it's quite hard to replace BJJ by something else in MMA it's pretty much the standard for grappling alongside wrestling (unless you do something like Sambo).

I have a feeling you're just trolling with your questions now, or trying to get people to say what you want to hear.

 

[SAMURAI SPIRIT]

I have a feeling you're just trolling with your questions now, or trying to get people to say what you want to hear.

and what would that be?

 

[brucelee]

Muay Thai is a brutal form of competition. Nobody wants to train for that unless you take the competition and sparring part out of it. But then it's not Muay Thai anymore. In that case there is Taebo. I have seen very few Muay Thai schools succeed. But to be honest the sport does get more popular than boxing for example.
BJJ is more of a martial arts and science, a sport for both, brain and body. In addition they have goals on the way to black belt ... way easier to market. It takes away a lot of students from Judo and Karate.
At the end you have to look at where the masses of students are coming from. Children and teens. Parents will feel a lot safer sending their kids to BJJ.

 

[Snubnoze707]

BJJ has many avenues for competition in the US, Muay Thai barely has any.

Also, most people don't like being punched in the face or kicked in the leg.