Motivation for training in the Filipino Martial Arts | Thread profile

hey y'all! i'm a beginner in FMA AND i'm a woman. lately i've been wondering how many women were involved in FMA and i had no idea that there were so few women involved. i'm also wondering whether there are cultural barriers regarding filipino/asian/pacific island women being involved in martial arts. both my parents scoffed at the idea of me being involved in FMA despite the ...

I am also female and will be starting up FMA hopefully soon. I am not Filipino, I am white, but I am drawn to the FMA because it just seems like such a comprehensive system that can be applied immediately. I think the reason we don't see more women in the FMA is because they just don't know about it. There's a karate or TKD school on every corner, but how many FMA schools are there here ...

50% of my adult class is women. I also have a good percentage of girls in my kids classes, so I think it's more of an issue of educating the public about what makes FMA different from Karate and TKD.

i've visited 3 escrima schools. one was a beginner's class that was about 50% - 75% female ... mostly little girls and another class where there were just a couple women. my current school just has a couple women who are involved in multiple martial arts. although the numbers of women in fma and martial arts is really an interesting topic ... i thought one of the main reasons of the ...