KidOblivion

Yeah I wish I had dojos in my area that cheap. The dojo Im looking at costs $60 a month, we also have to pay for Gi and belt tests. The dojo itself is pretty small too. There's another gym in my area that charges $100 a month but with sparing and unlimited classes (American Kenpo, MMA, BJJ and Muay Thai) and I can go 4 times a week. We have to buy our Gi through the school, I'm a big guy so it's $60 for me. I still can't decide which one to go to since I'm working with a minimum wage (U.S) college student budget.

I've been doing MMA for 6 years now and I recently took up an interest in Karate (also, my MMA gym was losing its way after a new instructor was hired, so I was prepared to leave at the end of last month). Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not training to fight people in the street or anything, but I do want to be prepared for the worst. I did my own prior research and discovered that Kyokushin is the most popular for self defense, but the classes cost about $120 for only two days a week and we have to buy our own Gi and the other one offers fair prices, but it's 45 minutes from my location. As you can imagine, I didn't even bother. The Karate styles in my area with fair prices and well recommended Masters are: Shobayashi Shorin-Ryu Shotokan Shuri-Ryu Matsumura Shorin-Ryu