Belt Testing Fees

[Warhogg]

What fees do you pay for promotions (belt or otherwise)?






Just wondering what the going rates are in 2004.







In Tracy's Kenpo and Shootfighting there are no promotion fees (not even for the belt itself).

[inde]

No fee

[Peter H.]

Cost of the belt + $20 to have the certificate printed

[Aesopian]

Nut'in.

[Roidie McDouchebag]

What's your opinion of Bart Warhogg?

[JKDChick]

TKD Black Belt = $1000

My current gym = $0

[Chris.B]

They charge me nothing, just the price of the belt. Which like what 5$ or something.

[Warhogg]

Originally posted by I Choke You
What's your opinion of Bart Warhogg?

He is funny as hell. He is also one tough SOB. Do you know him as well?

[meowrsx]

Originally posted by Peter H.
Cost of the belt + $20 to have the certificate printed

bwahaha aikido sucker.

[Mark Su Kow]

We don't charge anything. Belts are earned not bought!

[CrimsonTiger]

I believe it was something like 350 for my blackbelt? 50ish for my kyu ranks before that. (Canadian dollars, of course.)

Thai place I'm at now only charges for competitions (no ranks, obviously), and those aren't for the school, they're for the organization.

[meowrsx]

Originally posted by CrimsonTiger
I believe it was something like 350 for my blackbelt? 50ish for my kyu ranks before that. (Canadian dollars, of course.)

Thai place I'm at now only charges for competitions (no ranks, obviously), and those aren't for the school, they're for the organization.

bwahaha karate sucker.

[jhearne]

My testing fees were 30$ for every test and 100$ for the Black Belt. That covered the time spent for the test, the belt, and the certificate. Not too bad, I don't think. Especially considering paying for the time of the evaluators.

[Punisher]

Testings for ranks below black are $35 and my school. Black belt testings are around $100.

In other threads about this topic, I've said I don't mind paying, and I don't. Testing isn't during normal class time and head instructor has to pay 10 black belts for 4 hours to judge the test. Yeah the certificate and belt cost money, but what I really pay for is a quality evaluation of my skills.

And let's face it, the money has to come from somewhere. If there isn't a fee to test, all it likely means are dues are higher for everyone, even people not interested in advancing in rank.

[CrimsonTiger]

Pun,

Agreed. You get what you pay for (one way or another)...so if you really do pay nothing, guess what you're probably getting.