When I studied Hung Ga in San Diego, I was paying $8 a class for a one hour class. Kwoon also offered Bagua and Yoga. Or unlimited classes for $100 a month.
Also studied Aikido in SD, that was $60 a month for unlimitied classes.
A couple schools I’m looking at right now is a Northern Shaolin school that’s $50 a month. They have classes 3 nights a week, for 2 1/2 hours. Price pays for one class or as many as I want to take.
Yang Style Tai Chi is $35 a month for one class a week, $55 for two classes a week for the month or $75 for 3 classes a week for the month.
All I feel are fair prices and all by good teachers.
Wow! Your kung fu looks like you saved a lot of money!!!
low price= Sifu doesn’t know if he’ll be open next month. Mcdojo= financial security so that he can actually train his favorites without worry. Best is in the middle.
You all think so one sided. Greed? Go take a course in massage then? How about Reiki healing? Compare them. You get what you pay for. I can do boxing and wrestling for free. I can also hurt boxer/wrestlers. You get what you pay for. TKD is 20 bucks a month and hsing I is 80 dollars a month. No contest, I’ll pay 80 bucks. Whose greedy? you want to take but not give. You think you pay your sifu in sweat? Yes, you do, but the ones that charge more keep their students. If you pay nohting, they have invested nothing in it and quit. Give me case examples all day long, but the fact remains. Do you really think your getting a good deal? Do you want someone to tell you, “you look like you saved a lot of money on your haircut” Or wow, it looks like your kung fu was cheap.
History time. Kung fu was for the aristocrats. They could pay a master to teach their kid. Mo money means better kung fu. Peasant kung fu later became karate.
50.00 a month, from a shirfu that has been in business in the same place for 28 years. I’ll bet he will be around next week. Plus, if you have to, find a very good intructor, and take private lessons from him.
Nuttnhunny-
Buddhist monks beg by the protocol of their philosophy of living (IE: to have you give is a lesson to you).
Taoist monks don’t want your money (they probably don’t want to teach you either).
Excellent Kung fu is not performed by those who have the most money, rather it is performed by those who invest the most of themselves into their art.
Point is, you can pay a lot and get poor instruction. What is most important is that your teacher teaches from their heart, charges what they need to subsist and if they have other jobs they will generally charge according to what you can afford. This is part of the teachers own Kung Fu not related to their martial skill.
However, It’s different everywhere, with every teacher. You are thinking of something you read in a 3$ book somewhere
once again, you can’t buy “Kung Fu”.
