I drop the cost by $10 for each next person ($90 for two, $120 for three, etc.). I don't teach under age 16, so it's not likely, but if a family brought 5, the 5th (and subsequent) would be free (total of $150).
Show me the money!
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I charge more for private lessons (in theory - classes are small enough nobody needs them right now), because it requires I set aside another block of my time (as opposed to them joining a class I already take my time for). If I was running a school full-time, I think I might like just offering same-price private lessons when I'd be at the school, anyway. Except I'd require they bring an uke or I'd have to charge more (for taking all those falls from an inexperienced thrower - they are the worst!).
Is that a full-time martial arts school, or are the classes taught in a community space (recreation center, gym, church social hall, university, etc)? In the US, the cost is very different between those two things, and there's often (not always, though.....) a real difference in what you get for your money - how many classes are offered, the equipment available, the number of instructors, etc.
I'd agree. The only "not always" IME is the number of instructors. A relatively new school may only have one or two instructors, and eventually the school will grow more. I have yet to run into a program in a community space that had more than two, and most (like mine) have one. And the difference in equipment is usually dramatic. I have a fair amount of stuff (still less than most schools), but only bring in a few bits each time. And, as you implied, only 2-3 classes a week.
That's the life of the community-center program.
wingchun100
Senior Master
Dang! I have not seen prices like that since I studied at the Troy Judo Club back in 1993! How do you get away with such low rates?
Kennewick, WA
I am just shifting to a new format.
Art of Kali which focuses on the long weapon aspects (stick, machete, spear, axe etc) and is open to 13+ and a 16+ Kali Combatives which is knife/counter knife, weapon grappling, improvised weapon etc.
Each is an hour long offered consecutively. Students can take one class for $40/month or both for $60. Offered twice per week.
Private lessons are $40/hour.
I am just shifting to a new format.
Art of Kali which focuses on the long weapon aspects (stick, machete, spear, axe etc) and is open to 13+ and a 16+ Kali Combatives which is knife/counter knife, weapon grappling, improvised weapon etc.
Each is an hour long offered consecutively. Students can take one class for $40/month or both for $60. Offered twice per week.
Private lessons are $40/hour.
JR 137
Grandmaster
The dojo I train at charges $55/month for adults and $45/month for kids. Family members in the same house get $10 for each person after the first one, ie a family of 2 adults and 2 kids would pay $55 for adult 1, $45 for adult 2, and $35 for each kid. No contracts. Promotions cost between $45-$65 or somewhere near that.
Everywhere else around here costs at least $125/month with a 12 month contract.
Then there's the local Tae Kwon Do schools, which around here are affectionately referred to as Take My Dough.
TKD guys - please don't get offended. I've trained with some very good TKD guys who definitely don't fit that mold. But around here, those guys are the exception and not the norm.
Edit: Albany, NY area.
Do we have a MT hot-spot in the Albany area?
wingchun100
Senior Master
Seems like it...although you wouldn't know it by the fact that I have only ONE student registered for my intro class.
We're not a commercial school. Profit isn't a consideration.
Sami Ibrahim
Green Belt
Private Lessons - Any where on Earth $5,000 per hour (Prices Negotiable, Will travel)
I suspect you may have missed the point.
