The bloody price of it!

[Thai Bri]

I was going to enrole my two sons into a new kickboxing class. "Full Curcle Kickboxing" is the organisation I think. From their literature they include Thai techniques also.

But get this! They want £40 per month EACH, for a maximum of two lessons a week each. Thats £5 per person per lesson, and you have to pay even if you don't go. A grand total of £80 out of the family budget.

There is also a boxing club nearby. The lessons are £1 each, and you pay as you go. Don't go, don't pay. For my lads to have the same number of boxing lessons it would be only £16.

This full circle guy will not get many takers, methinks.

I wonder where I'll take my sons............. rolleyes:

[Lizard]

Make your own club where you make witty remarks about your opponent to distract them (like a kiai but funnier). So now kickboxing has some mcdojos. Out of interest why do you weant your children to do MA?

[Szczepankiewicz]

The same reason he weants them to learn spelling I would imagine.

[retired]

Ha Ha

cant be to beat him up as they dont need any MA experience!!!

nah on a serious note a lady in work was asking me about prices at our thaiboxing club and i said that you need gloves, shorts, anklets & maybe a gum sheild & it was £12 to join the wka for insurance in club which is then £6 to renew each year after & if grading are needed they can be through the wka for a small fee.

she then replyed that her local kickboxing club were asking for high joining fees & grading fees went from white belt £20 up to black belt £100.

I said that's the difference between a club which is run to teach & collect enough money just to cover the hall & equipment costs, and a gym which is run just to make a profit.

Oh one question: how much have people had to pay their instructor to train? I have had to pay £2 (YES thats £2) for the last 6 years & only a year or so ago did it go up to £2.50 OOOhhhh what a lot of money (thats sarcasm bri as you know LOL) & most McDojo's have the cheek to start at £4......Bast!!!

[SpecOpsScout]

Cost of training...

Hey Brother,
I currently pay one hundred fifty dollars American, per month, for traing three days per week. The classes are scheduled at one hour, though they usually run longer. There are morning classes three days per week, and training in the morning and evening count as one day. If I chose to go up to the Unlimited catagory, doing so would allow me to train at the Academy up to six days a week, seven outside of summer, but the cost goes up to two hundred dollars per month. This also provides me the opportunity to participate in the Fighter's Union. This is the full contact NHB training, an is deffinitely a next level thing at the school. It is taken at the termination of the Adult classes, resulting in two hours of training for each session. Unfortunately I'm not conditioned well enough for that...yet.
I hope this helps.
Respectfully,
Harry

[RabidMAT12]

Try enrolling your kids in music classes and then see if you complain about the price of martial arts.
I pay £4 per hour or £5 1 hour 30 mins, £15 licence + insurance (membership is £45 and includes clothes but i didnt have to pay).
So £15 to join £4 a lesson, i dont know about your situation but i find this perfectly reasonable with the fact that the guy has to rent out space in the local sports centre and supply all the equipment.

[darrianation]

Boxing is great! I am doing boxing and I love it. Forget about paying those outrageous fees. Sounds like someone is just trying to make a buck to me. Thats fine I quess but let them make it on some other poor saps buck... oops pound.

Boxing will be great for the kids, and if they decide to do kickboxing later on they will be a lot further a head of the game.

[Thai Bri]

Originally posted by RabidMAT12
Try enrolling your kids in music classes and then see if you complain about the price of martial arts.
I pay £4 per hour or £5 1 hour 30 mins, £15 licence + insurance (membership is £45 and includes clothes but i didnt have to pay).
So £15 to join £4 a lesson, i dont know about your situation but i find this perfectly reasonable with the fact that the guy has to rent out space in the local sports centre and supply all the equipment.

But how can the boxers do it for £16 per month (nice gym too, loads of equipment and a cool ring) and the kickboxer needs £80? I'm not against an instructor filling his rice bowl, but this guy wants caviar in it.

[seeker]

Man training seems to be expensive in U.S.A (and other countries). I 'm paying 135 euros (about the same in dollars) for half a year of raining. At firs I had to pay 100 euros for about 3 months of basic training and of course buy the gear, but now I can train up to 8 times per week (4times muaythai, 4 times kickboxing) with that 135eur. And Iif I join Krav maga basic course and/or shootfighting course I can train all of these sports with only that 135eur/half year.

[terry]

Yeah, training is expensive in the US. But I still would prefer our training costs to your tax rate. Yow!

[chalambok]

Yuppies Need Reinforcement

Well, I used to live in a quite small town and offered 36 hours a month for $30. I had 20 students, 19 of whom were Hispanic immigrants. Their parents would come to watch, and they would bring the rest of the family along also. It was great! Since returning from Thailand I now live in a quite large city, and I have had to raise my rates, not because of space rent or insurance, but so I can attract students. We have this particular mentality in the United States that if it is not expensive it must not be worth anything. Interestingly enough, most of the successful schools I visit have high dues, usually $85 to $110 per month, but the students get maybe 8-10 hours of instruction and the quality is poor. But the martial business is doing just fine, thank you. My personal opinion is that most people would rather be able to tell their friends they are paying exorbitantly for 'fight class' or 'advanced combat scenarios' or whatever than just go somewhere and actually have to work hard for 2 or 3 hours a night and pay reasonable monthly dues. It is the martial equivalent of the old joke about oral sex, just talking about it. As an aside to Bri Thai, you know as well as I that a good boxer is very difficult to deal with. I bet I can guess where your kids are taking class.