I love to teach students my styles of kung fu, karate and tai chi. I teach mainly personal, one to one lessons and charge £15 for the first two and £20 per hour for tai chi. I want students to come once a week. While I feel I am an experienced teacher, and I do know my stuff, I find charging the amount I do means, realistically, the most I can comfortably teach is 4 to five hours a day. Because I work with the student so they can come when it suits, I could be teaching from 9am to 9pm. This was not a problem until I used lucozade sport as a supplement and it caused me palpitations and heart problems. At 36 years old, I was shocked this happened to me, as I've been doing MA nearly 25 years but as a full time teacher I find there is a limit to what I can charge in my area, but also the amount of lessons I can teach. My fitness is fine, it is my health that needs looking after.
I earn roughly £250 a week. While I am not teaching my arts for pure personal gain, I do feel I work perhaps harder than is physically 'right'. Would you do so many lessons?
Perhaps I should just get a building and build up my own karate, kung fu, tai chi students. I get a lot of people show lots of interest, but so many go once they realise how hard the training is. It's like they watch Jet Li and want to do it within two, three, five years, when Jet has been doing that all his life !
I have always believed 1-2-1 training is better than the group format. Some students will stay the course, some will drop off. It is how it is ! Thank you.
I earn roughly £250 a week. While I am not teaching my arts for pure personal gain, I do feel I work perhaps harder than is physically 'right'. Would you do so many lessons?
Perhaps I should just get a building and build up my own karate, kung fu, tai chi students. I get a lot of people show lots of interest, but so many go once they realise how hard the training is. It's like they watch Jet Li and want to do it within two, three, five years, when Jet has been doing that all his life !
I have always believed 1-2-1 training is better than the group format. Some students will stay the course, some will drop off. It is how it is ! Thank you.