Monthly Membership Fees - Kickboxing

Rob113 wrote: »

Hi,

Just looking to get an idea of what is a fair price for monthly membership fees.

My wife and two kids are members of our local kickboxing club and ive been paying in excess of €100 per week for the past two years. Financial situation has now changed so i need to start paying monthly

I requested a flat monthly fee and was quoted €424 per month / €5088 per year. Bear in mind these are just standard group classes, not 1-1 or personal training classes.

Is this the norm?

Sorry I can't really provide any useful information but that sounds extremely expensive.

Ouch. That sounds like a lot.

How much you should pay for lessons is a thorny subject. At one extreme you have people offering classes in local parish halls on an amateur basis who charge a few euro to cover the cost of the hall and (hopefully) insurance, and at the other you have people offering lessons in state of the art full time premises while also looking to make a wage for themselves and conceivably also their staff.

A better question than 'am I paying a lot' is 'am I getting value?'

For example you don't say whether you're going once a week to training, or every day? €424 for a family of four training every day could be great value, or it could be a complete rip off.

Does your faculty have great teachers in an art that you really like? Does it have good facilities that are kept clean and warm? Does it have parking and showers etc - these are all things that cost money, but it's up to you to decide if they're important to you or not.

Some people are perfectly happy in a cold drafty school hall training on crappy mats, and think it's waste of money to pay for anything else. Others think that good facilities are necessary for high level training or that they come with a certain attitude of doing things properly. Again to each their own.

How many times a week are they training? Myself and my kids train in a local club, that is basic with regards to facilities, but the coaching is very good. We pay on a class by class basis, €5 per class for each of my boys, and €7 per class for me. So a class each a week is costing €17 per week, or €73 per calendar month.

Of course , the more classes you do the greater the cost, but many full time places now just offer a flat weekly or monthly rate, with classes every day(sometimes multiple classes a day) so if you can train 5 days a week the money starts to make sense

Sounds expensive tbh. If it’s semi contact and points work you’re doing I’d compare it to itf taekwondo for example. The club I train in (ITA) would be about €110 ish a month I think for your setup (4 members of a family) on 2 classes a week. I think that’s not atypical.
(A bit different to my own setup so I don’t have it exact off the top of my head)

Seems like a lot. Is it in Martial Arts Inc?

Not kick boxing but karate for my two kids and they pay €6 a class each twice a week so for two it’s €24 quid a week or nearly €1400 year if I include the yearly insurance and organisation membership costs. Add to that you will have few seminars, gradings and workshops which all cost money.
So over all I would be nearly hitting the two grand mark per year.

cletus wrote: »

But they're not doing 2 classes a week. His wife is doing double that, and each of his kids is doing treble that. Your example is for 8 classes a week combined, his family is doing double that

OP, it's working out at 6.25 a class. What are the facilities like?

Op asked for a view, I gave him one and a point of comparison. My comparison works out at about 4 quid a class, a heck of a lot cheaper, you could be doing twice as much training as my example and still get a better overall deal.

Btw, most clubs I’ve trained with have some options re additional training, often at little or no extra cost. The two classes a week is my choice based on my circumstances, not my coaches