Paying WAY too much for karate lessons?

[dinesh]

I live in the caribbean and pay the eqivilant of $12 per month for training, twice a week , 4 hours or more per session.

 

Pretty cheap, and my instructor was trained in Okinawa.....

[Coco]

In my opinion, 4 hours of lessons dosnt help much more than 1 hour. Your teacher can correct you to a point, from then on, its full on training by yourself, THERE I would train 4 hours, not with my teacher lol

[Drunken Monkey]

but in four hours you can get a more hands-on and rounded work out going.

 

at uni we used to have late night training that regularly lasted 3+ hours.

 

that involved a proper warm up

 

slow relaxed stretching

 

going through everything

 

lots of drills+sparring.

 

there was only ever only 3 or 4 of us there but the opportunity to cross hands with different people is worth more than anyting you can achieve by yourself in the same amount of time.

 

it's all about experience.

 

by yourself, you aren't making a fraction of the progress you make when training with a partner, let alone more than one partner and with instructor present, no matter how 'full on' you think you are training.

[dinesh]

In that 4 hours i probably do warm ups with the class and some light kata teaching for 30 minutes.

 

Then I get beatup learning some tuite movements , some bunkai , get corrected in my katas( I don't have anytmore to learn in the style cept Hakutsuru which my instructordoesn't know).So i end up just practising with him and being corrected.

 

Some kumite drills/sparring sometimes. I also do alot of training at home so it supplements it.

[SevenStar]

Hey, I go to a Shito-Ryu dojo, and i pay 70 dollars a month. The classes are 3 times a week, and the class size is about 10-15 kids. The belt changes are 55 dollars for white belt, and it goes up by 10-30s each test.

 

Am i getting ripped off? I really love karate but I hear people telling me im paying way too much.

 

at my club, for 75 a month, you get brazilian jiu jitsu 4 days a week, judo two days a week and muay thai 2-5 days a week...

 

bjj - 2.5 hours, judo and muay thai are 1.5, except for on saturday, when the focus of the thai class is conditioning. those sessions are about 3.5 hours.

Edited August 25, 2004 by SevenStar

[SevenStar]

In my opinion, 4 hours of lessons dosnt help much more than 1 hour. Your teacher can correct you to a point, from then on, its full on training by yourself, THERE I would train 4 hours, not with my teacher lol

 

sure it does. common sense tells you that 4 hours of expert instruction is better than one.

 

hour one - I drill you with padwork, honing your combinations and getting you warmed up

 

hour two - technique and corrections

 

hour three - sparring and corrections

 

hour four - tactics, review of sparring session

[SevenStar]

It increases by that much... White to yellow was 55 dollars, then 65 to yellow/orange etc. By black ur paying about 200-300 dollars

 

that's the thing right there - you're getting reamed on the belt tests.

[dinesh]

eeek!

 

That's alot of doe!

 

I paid $100 for my black belt certificate (that doesn't sound right now does it ?lol ) , yellow etc are like 30-42 bucks for the most(weather u havepaid your registration fee for the year or not).

 

ah!

[SevenStar]

CoCo, which organization are you guys a part of?

[blitzcraig]

Haha, still have everyone beat. My school charges 80 a month for a 3 year plan, 90 for a one year, and 100 a month no plan. Tests begin at 30 and thats on a testing day, if not add 5 bucks to it. 3 classes a week, and a butt load of folks in each class...but its a great school, led by jim butin sooo...i dunno