MMA and BJJ in Mainland China and Taiwan

[neijia_boxer]

Where in china are they picking up on MMA? i heard Beijing has a bjj club?

[JAB]

Andy Wang was out in Beijing and/or Taiwan somewhere. Some Aussies are teaching as well. MMA is one of the fastest growing sports in the world.
CHeers
Jake

[neijia_boxer]

After some searching I found these-

http://www.bjjchina.com/en/

http://www.taiwanbjj.org

http://www.kln-bjj.com/

http://graciebarra.com.tw/

i would think that the market for BJJ and MMA in China would be good- booming economy, lots of martial arts, a billion people....something new...fast growing sport.

[Formosa Neijia]

BJJ is growing fairly fast here. don't know about MMA. They've had problems with NHB fights and other controversies.

The market the world over is ripe for styles that actually train against resistance.

Dave C.

[Andy_S]

I suspect that MMA will take off in China big-time in the next few years. In Northeast Asia, trends start in Japan, move across to Korea, and then reach the mainland. Japan has a thriving MMA scence, when it comes to training or competing, and it is of huge interest in Korea. It will reach China.

What this means for CMA we shall have to see.

In Korea, TMA have NOT had success in the ring/cage, compared to the BJJers and MT guys; to put it another way, while Korea has a huge Korean-style MA community, it is the imported styles and methods that have been adopted for free-fighting.

In Japan, AFAIK, bar Kyokushin (which, I believe took on a whole range of MT techniques and training methods in the 70s) and Judo, Japanese MA have not done well in the NHB arena either.