Martial Arts Business News

Martial Arts Business News is Martial Arts Professional’s reporting desk: what is actually happening to the business of running a martial arts school, as it happens. Acquisitions and consolidation, the arrival of institutional money in jiu-jitsu and MMA, school-management software and billing platforms, insurance and liability, safeguarding regulation, franchise and licensing activity, and the wider fitness economy that martial arts schools compete inside. We report named companies, dated events and sourced numbers, and we say plainly when something is a claim rather than a fact. The section exists because the trade press for this industry has historically been advice rather than news, and an owner making a five-year decision about a lease, a platform or a programme needs to know what the market is doing, not only what a coach recommends. Reporting is separate from the journal’s commercial relationships; see the editorial policy for how those are disclosed.