Trends · data through September 2026

Martial Arts Clubs in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,678 stores from 1,457 martial arts club chains in the United States. Impact Martial Arts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Gracie Barra and Personal Best Karate.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
1,457
Tracked stores
1,678
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked martial arts club chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Impact Martial Arts and Gracie Barra sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Impact Martial Arts ▲2 +18.1%
2 Gracie Barra ▲1 +17.5%
3 Personal Best Karate ▲2 +16.4%
4 White Tiger Martial Arts ▲3 +15.7%
5 The Way ▲1 +13.6%
6 Victory Martial Arts ▲1 +8.5%
7 Elite Martial Arts ▼1 +2.7%
8 White Dragon Martial Arts ▲2 -3.4%
9 Lehigh Valley Martial Arts - -4.0%
10 Cosens Martial Arts - -4.9%
11 ATA Martial Arts ▲1 -12.5%
12 Black Belt Academy ▼1 -16.0%
13 Champions Martial Arts ▼1 -18.3%
14 American Karate Academy ▼1 -19.3%
15 Extreme Martial Arts ▼3 -19.5%
  • Gracie Barra
  • I Love Kickboxing
  • 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu
  • Team Alpha Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
  • Jett Martial Arts
  • White Dragon Martial Arts
  • Fruita BJJ
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,678 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 75 of the 1,678 stores (4%); 1,368 of the 1,457 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Gracie Barra (26)
  • I Love Kickboxing (14)
  • 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu (4)
  • Team Alpha Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (1)
  • Jett Martial Arts (1)
  • White Dragon Martial Arts (5)
  • Fruita BJJ (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Gracie Barra 26
  • 2 I Love Kickboxing 14
  • 3 Premier Martial Arts 13
  • 4 Tiger-Rock Martial Arts 12
  • 5 ATA Martial Arts 10
  • 6 The Way 7
  • 7 Alliance 6
  • 8 Championship Martial Arts 6
  • 9 White Dragon Martial Arts 5
  • 10 Lehigh Valley Martial Arts 5
  • 11 Easton Training Center 5
  • 12 American Top Team 4
  • 13 Champions Martial Arts 4
  • 14 Victory Martial Arts 4
  • 15 Legacy Martial Arts 4
  • 16 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu 4
  • 17 Cosens Martial Arts 4
  • 18 Mountain Kim Martial Arts 4
  • 19 Master Chong's World Class Tae Kwon Do 3
  • 20 White Tiger Martial Arts 3
  • 21 Impact Martial Arts 3
  • 22 Black Belt Academy 3
  • 23 Martial Arts America 3
  • 24 Personal Best Karate 3
  • 25 Pai's Tae Kwon Do 3
  • 26 American Karate Academy 3
  • 27 Karate John's Martial Arts Center 3
  • 28 Extreme Martial Arts 3
  • 29 Elite Martial Arts 3
  • 30 Star Martial Arts 3
  • 31 360 Defense Martial Arts 3
  • 32 Riverview Martial Arts 3
  • 33 America's Best Karate 2
  • 34 US World Class Taekwondo 2
  • 35 Karate America 2
  • 36 Yi Champions TaeKwonDo Academy 2
  • 37 Fonseca Martial Arts 2
  • 38 PRO Martial Arts 2
  • 39 Focusmaster Fitness 2
  • 40 Seo's Martial Arts 2
  • 41 Tristar Martial Arts 2
  • 42 Brian Hobson Karate Studio 2
  • 43 Tiger Woo's World Class Tae Kwon Do 2
  • 44 Peak Martial Arts 2
  • 45 All American Karate 2
  • 46 Gainesville Dojo 2
  • 47 Gracie Barra College Station 2
  • 48 CORE Combat Sports 2
  • 49 Andrew Gause's Martial Arts 2
  • 50 Scientific Martial Arts and Fitness 2

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