due to wifes new job my regular class schedule has been gutted, normally 60 bucks a month, typcially 3-4 classes a week. I meet with one of my teachers 3 mornings a week 30 bucks a pop, but worth every friggin nickel. I can learn in 2 days what might take a months worth of classes, entire forms in 2 days a weapons form in 2-3 days. miss training with my friends but was not willing to lose several years work due to a work schedule.
[QUOTE=GeneChing;1052170]Would you wear a cheerleading skirt to learn Martial Arts?
I did sell one…probably to Bawang. :eek:[/QUOTE]
Gene, Gene, my main man, come in here close, shhhh… lemme give you a couple of hints on selling them skirts…
Tie die up a couple and flog them off to Uki and and the rest of the ‘alternative’ crowd as you know, Jerry Garcia hats or something…
Next, Plaid up a couple with some magic marker, and you got a Kilt, right? You know where that one goes…
Next, throw one around the neck of one of your Ninjettes, and you have a 360 degree nacho cheese bib, for when things get a little out of control…wink, wink…
Just between you and me, right?
And another question about sales, you probably didn’t order stock in large enough sizes for this crowd?
if i ever become sifu i will teach for free. i have honor and i teach kung fu for truth and justcice.
[QUOTE=bawang;1052379] i will teach for free.[/QUOTE]
I had to pay my teacher
- round trip airline ticket between Taiwan to Texas (about $1600).
- room and board.
- $2000 per month salary.
- gift, Chinese wine, …
I’ll never teach for free.
does anyone here feel like trading chores, cleaning the school, the teacher house, washing teachers car, doing his laundry etc etc be OK to trade for lessons, if the student could not afford to pay fro trainign but realyl wanted to learn? what woudl you trade for lessons, if you had no money.
[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1052427]I had to pay my teacher
- round trip airline ticket between Taiwan to Texas (about $1600).
- room and board.
- $2000 per month salary.
- gift, Chinese wine, …
I’ll never teach for free.[/QUOTE]
is this for shuai jiao?
[QUOTE=Violent Designs;1052442]is this for shuai jiao?[/QUOTE]
Yes! It wasn’t cheap and that’s for sure. 
wow. two thousand dollars a month for what little mongolian kids learn for free. what a fukin waste.
[QUOTE=EarthDragon;1052430]does anyone here feel like trading chores, cleaning the school, the teacher house, washing teachers car, doing his laundry etc etc be OK to trade for lessons, if the student could not afford to pay fro trainign but realyl wanted to learn? what woudl you trade for lessons, if you had no money.[/QUOTE]
no. if i become sifu i wouldnt make anyone my slave or force them to stay with me. ill give students all i know and let them leave me and move on. if we respect each other and be like brothers and family i wouldnt need incentives and sociopath manipulating to get them to stay with me.
even my mother and father i dont see them that much, why would i be obliged to go visit some stranger every week
i want to help people and make them strong and have honor and be brave, not be a tapeworm up they ass and exploit their fantasies.
the only people who can afford staying with you for 10 years paying nonstop are passive aggresive upper middle class people. thats gonna be the core of your senior students. theyre steady money trees, but soon you realize all thats left in your class are cold distant uppity crackers who dont care about you.
[QUOTE=SanHeChuan;1051631]200 Dollars a month, for 2 classes a night for 4 days a week is only 6.25 dollars per class! :eek:[/QUOTE]
thats way too much. do you know how many fukin cheeseburgers i can buy with 200 dollars? 32.
[QUOTE=bawang;1052454]wow. two thousand dollars a month for what little mongolian kids learn for free. what a fukin waste.
no. if i become sifu i wouldnt make anyone my slave or force them to stay with me. ill give students all i know and let them leave me and move on. if we respect each other and be like brothers and family i wouldnt need incentives and sociopath manipulating to get them to stay with me.
even my mother and father i dont see them that much, why would i be obliged to go visit some stranger every week
i want to help people and make them strong and have honor and be brave, not be a tapeworm up they ass and exploit their fantasies.
the only people who can afford staying with you for 10 years paying nonstop are passive aggresive upper middle class people. thats gonna be the core of your senior students. theyre steady money trees, but soon you realize all thats left in your class are cold distant uppity crackers who dont care about you.[/QUOTE]
I couldn’t have said it better myself. That’s why I think it’s ridiculous for teachers to be charging so much for monthly classes. I think $60-$80 a month should be the most. Anymore than that and I think they’re just looking to attract middle class, well off white men or people in the movie industry. The most honorable teachers I know taught mostly for free. And just asked for tuition fee based on the cost of rent for the facility for the few hours a week.
I recently saw a class that is teaching “internal kungfu” that will teach you special supernatural abilities for $20 a class. And also requires pupils to pay $300 every other month for special “closed door” training. That makes me sick. Makes me want to go challenge their teacher and see if he can use a kamehameha wave on me or even block a simple combo I learned for free.
On the other side of the coin, there are some students out there that are looking to pay the higher amounts because if a teacher charged anything less that 150 you were selling yourself short. some would say that you must not be worth your weight in salt if you’re not charging an arm and a leg.
I don’t really like paying for lessons. I only started because I just lost my dedication to the training due to personal issues i was having. Since I knew I was wasting my teachers time for the moment, I figured i’d at least better give him some cash.
I know I am an oddball. Most people place more value on the teachings if the price is high. I value them more when I am offered the knowledge with no expectations other than the camaraderie of the group. I seem to be much more loyal and devoted if the lessons are free.
Making payments to me just makes it a business deal and severs the teacher student relationship. It then has no value but what selfish gain I achieve for the moments I am in class.
mang i feel the same thing u and me have honor
my sould is priceless and i think kung fu is also priceless.