Yearly Organization Dues

[Shokei Marcsui]

Our dojo has converted to the IKO-4 Tezuka group and we are required to pay $20 dollars a year and submit two passport photos to be processed and returned to the students for IKO-4 identification cards.

I will post a scan of my organization ID card when I get it back.

How much do you pay (monthly or yearly) in organization dues and what do you receive?

Osu!

[ksan]

Originally Posted by Shokei Marcsui

Our dojo has converted to the IKO-4 Tezuka group and we are required to pay $20 dollars a year and submit two passport photos to be processed and returned to the students for IKO-4 identification cards.

I will post a scan of my organization ID card when I get it back.

How much do you pay (monthly or yearly) in organization dues and what do you receive?

Osu!

16 Euro a year and we used to get a monthly training for yudansha (and assisting brownbelts) But that training got canceled and now we simply get nothing for it....

[schuyler]

25 USD for a lifetime membership to IKO-Matsushima(3). Kancho gives free seminars whenever he is in town....(of course we fly him here from Japan and put him and his wife up in a nice hotel)

[satanclaws]

aud$80.00 per year

[Spirit]

Funny when I was a B/C for Tezuka it was only $5.00 per student or dan for life????

Kuma Dojo Association is $5.00 life for everyone and $25.00 for life for the dojo including chief instructors lifetime membership...

[Shokei Marcsui]

Funny when I was a B/C for Tezuka it was only $5.00 per student or dan for life????

Wow! I wish membership dues were still that cheap and that Kyokushin classes monthly dues were comparable to that price!

[kyofighter]

$15 for the first year and you receive a budo passport and IFK membership card, after that $10 every year...
osu

[Bruce]

Here in England we pay about £25 a year (I think!). Rather foolishly I don't know what that 'buys' you! I'm sure someone else on here from the BKK knows though.............

[Lucy]

Osu Bruce,

Yes its 25 pounds a year. Does not 'buy' us anything just membership to the IFK. All i know is we get a card with our mug on it (sorry photograph). Life time membership.

[Bruce]

You see I knew someone would know - Cheers Lucy

[StarKodama]

Here in Japan everything's expensive, and my dues to the Shinkyokushinkai are about 85 USD per year. I have a membership card, which I was able to flash to receive a useless, very small Shinkyokushin bag at the All-Japan tournament last year. Whee~

[Spirit]

Originally Posted by Shokei Marcsui

Wow! I wish membership dues were still that cheap and that Kyokushin classes monthly dues were comparable to that price!

When did it go up, we (most of USA) left IKO 4 in October 06??? and their was no talk about price increase or a per year payment????????????

When I started in Kyokushin (70's), we paid $10.00 a month to train, and once Shodan no fees at all. The dojo paid for our lifetime membership into the IKO, as well as our B/B Cert fees from Honbu.

[kyofighter]

Bigger the organization is higher the fees are . That's because they will spend more on advertising, promotional material and organising a tournament cost a lot. Still, $15 or $20 a year it is not much , come on guys , we spend double of that in one weekend at the movies.
I don't mind to pay if I receive my money worth.
Osu

[smoothsake]

IKO1 doesn't have an annual fee. One time registration cost of $15 or $25 USD - don't remember. You get a card with your picture on it. That's about it.

[kyofighter]

That depends on the country also, the annual fee.
In Romania when I was in IKO1 we had one.

[smoothsake]

Originally Posted by kyofighter

That depends on the country also, the annual fee.
In Romania when I was in IKO1 we had one.

That's true... I can't comment how IKO1 does it in countries outside the US.

[Shokei Marcsui]

Still, $15 or $20 a year it is not much , come on guys , we spend double of that in one weekend at the movies.

I agree. Spending $20 a year is a reasonable amount. I'm just glad to have found a nice, hard working group of kyokushin karateka... regardless of Organization.

[kyofighter]

That is the most important.
Osu

[Aunty Ichigeki]

We're IKO1 & once the 'one time life payment' is made we don't pay Honbu annual subs. We pay our BC/country representative approx US$100 pa but that goes into an account & all of us (dojo operators) get to vote on how to spend it... things like subsidising our free phone number, printing brochures we can all use or transporting our BC & high grades around the country for gradings & teaching or shipping in instructors from overseas for events... and the kaikan sponsors our (veeery important) annual ladies camp

[Spirit]

Originally Posted by kyofighter

Bigger the organization is higher the fees are . That's because they will spend more on advertising, promotional material and organising a tournament cost a lot. Still, $15 or $20 a year it is not much , come on guys , we spend double of that in one weekend at the movies.
I don't mind to pay if I receive my money worth.
Osu

When I joined the IKO back in the 70's, {the one Sosai ran} it was $5 lifetime and that was the biggest organization some 60 million strong back then.
So bigger is not always more expensive, its a matter of how you wish to beleive it to be


[quote=Aunty Ichigeki;]
We're IKO1 & once the 'one time life payment' is made we don't pay Honbu annual subs. We pay our BC/country representative approx US$100 pa but that goes into an account & all of us (dojo operators) get to vote on how to spend it... things like subsidising our free phone number, printing brochures we can all use or transporting our BC & high grades around the country for gradings & teaching or shipping in instructors from overseas for events... and the kaikan sponsors our (veeery important) annual ladies camp

I really like that idea, now that is money well spent and organized......