How much of a time and $$ commitment is taekwondo?

[Anonymous]

I know it probably depends on a few factors, but asking for a 7 year old.

[Anonymous]

Our school is 2-3 days a week and $140-170 month.

The after school program is similarly priced, I believe, and you can pick all 5 days or fewer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our school is 2-3 days a week and $140-170 month.

The after school program is similarly priced, I believe, and you can pick all 5 days or fewer.

I was thinking just once a week since he already does music, language and a sport. Is once a week not worth it to make progress and get into a groove? I don’t have any experience with martial arts.

[Anonymous]

It’s a lot fan

[Anonymous]

Ours is twice a week for 30 minutes and runs about $240 a month, plus belt testing every 2-3 months at the tune of $75.

[Anonymous]

I had to pay for aftercare anyway, so the lessons were just an extra benefit (that got done while I was at work/commuting). I think I paid $200/month, inclusive.

During COVID, we dropped the aftercare and just did lessons. We paid about $120/month for three lessons per week.

They get you on the belt tests. They start inexpensive—about $30 for a yellow belt, but each progressive test gets more expensive. The black belt test was $500 (included a new uniform for black belts, and a nice, embroidered belt).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our school is 2-3 days a week and $140-170 month.

The after school program is similarly priced, I believe, and you can pick all 5 days or fewer.

I was thinking just once a week since he already does music, language and a sport. Is once a week not worth it to make progress and get into a groove? I don’t have any experience with martial arts.

At the TKD studio that my child attends, they ask for them to do 2 classes a week. But since there's a class every day of the week, it's pretty easy to fit in our schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to pay for aftercare anyway, so the lessons were just an extra benefit (that got done while I was at work/commuting). I think I paid $200/month, inclusive.

During COVID, we dropped the aftercare and just did lessons. We paid about $120/month for three lessons per week.

They get you on the belt tests. They start inexpensive—about $30 for a yellow belt, but each progressive test gets more expensive. The black belt test was $500 (included a new uniform for black belts, and a nice, embroidered belt).

$500! That’s way more than I would have thought. Do weekend events (do they have tournaments or something) cost extra too?

[Anonymous]

It’s hard to describe any physical activity as entirely useless but a 30 minute Tae Kwon Do lesson, even if conducted at breakneck pace is unlikely to impart much familiarity with the art. Martial arts is about ingraining physical techniques and responses to stimuli until they because more or less automatic. You’re not going to get that in 30 minutes or even an hour. Once upon a time, instruction ran two hours, three times a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to pay for aftercare anyway, so the lessons were just an extra benefit (that got done while I was at work/commuting). I think I paid $200/month, inclusive.

During COVID, we dropped the aftercare and just did lessons. We paid about $120/month for three lessons per week.

They get you on the belt tests. They start inexpensive—about $30 for a yellow belt, but each progressive test gets more expensive. The black belt test was $500 (included a new uniform for black belts, and a nice, embroidered belt).

$500! That’s way more than I would have thought. Do weekend events (do they have tournaments or something) cost extra too?

It’s pay to play

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to describe any physical activity as entirely useless but a 30 minute Tae Kwon Do lesson, even if conducted at breakneck pace is unlikely to impart much familiarity with the art. Martial arts is about ingraining physical techniques and responses to stimuli until they because more or less automatic. You’re not going to get that in 30 minutes or even an hour. Once upon a time, instruction ran two hours, three times a week.

2 hrs for 7 year olds?? Mine does 30 min twice a week. And shes a patient person who listens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to describe any physical activity as entirely useless but a 30 minute Tae Kwon Do lesson, even if conducted at breakneck pace is unlikely to impart much familiarity with the art. Martial arts is about ingraining physical techniques and responses to stimuli until they because more or less automatic. You’re not going to get that in 30 minutes or even an hour. Once upon a time, instruction ran two hours, three times a week.

I've been doing tkd off and on, different schools, since the 90s and never took 2 hour classes. Are you thinking of a different martial art?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to describe any physical activity as entirely useless but a 30 minute Tae Kwon Do lesson, even if conducted at breakneck pace is unlikely to impart much familiarity with the art. Martial arts is about ingraining physical techniques and responses to stimuli until they because more or less automatic. You’re not going to get that in 30 minutes or even an hour. Once upon a time, instruction ran two hours, three times a week.

2 hrs for 7 year olds?? Mine does 30 min twice a week. And shes a patient person who listens.

It sounds like a lot of people are saying twice a week. I think we could do that.

This might be a dumb question, but how tiring is a 30 min session of TKD vs, say, an hour of soccer? I'm wondering if we could do TKD followed by swim, or maybe TKD after music. He has a lot of energy, but we haven't doubled up on activities before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s hard to describe any physical activity as entirely useless but a 30 minute Tae Kwon Do lesson, even if conducted at breakneck pace is unlikely to impart much familiarity with the art. Martial arts is about ingraining physical techniques and responses to stimuli until they because more or less automatic. You’re not going to get that in 30 minutes or even an hour. Once upon a time, instruction ran two hours, three times a week.

2 hrs for 7 year olds?? Mine does 30 min twice a week. And shes a patient person who listens.

It sounds like a lot of people are saying twice a week. I think we could do that.

This might be a dumb question, but how tiring is a 30 min session of TKD vs, say, an hour of soccer? I'm wondering if we could do TKD followed by swim, or maybe TKD after music. He has a lot of energy, but we haven't doubled up on activities before.

It's not as tiring as soccer for my 6 year old. Some of it is mental, to remember the moves. We go 2-3x a week and one of those times is right after music class.

[Anonymous]

The one we went to was twice a week (and that age was immediately after school because it was prepackaged for their after school program, which was a pain for me, whose child was not in their after school program) and maybe three or four hundred a month. It was a great program, and my child loved it, but we stopped because the timing was horrible and they stopped offering Saturday classes. Leaving work early once a week was hard enough, I could not do it twice a week.