10-04-2004, 06:26 PM
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#1 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 4
| What does everyone pay in dues?
(monthly, quarterly, yearly, per semester in school, etc)
I've been fencing at a club for awhile (not my first one) and I find the yearly dues to be quite prohibitive for such a small, near dysfunctional club. I really want to make a case for change but I've got to be sure it's not just me that thinks the place to be awfully expensive for so little.
PLEASE give me a little feedback here.  | 
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10-04-2004, 07:58 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: North attleboro, MA
Posts: 1,807
| Fencing at UMass, 100 dollars a semester. Worth it.
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10-04-2004, 08:04 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eugene, OR
Posts: 704
| Currently nothing 
Previously I paid $50/month for floor fees and a lesson/week. The rates have since been raised to $100/month
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10-04-2004, 08:11 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: St. Mary's College of Maryland
Posts: 197
| Fencing at St. Mary's: Free, so far. If you join USFA the school funds a percentage of the dues.
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10-04-2004, 08:11 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Posts: 133
| $300 (canadian) for twice a week for 10 weeks, great club, olympic coach
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10-04-2004, 08:40 PM
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#6 | | gother than thou
Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 840
| Fencing at Clemson: $40 per semester | 
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10-04-2004, 08:43 PM
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#7 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Baltimore, Maryland/BFC
Posts: 99
| I pay....err my parents pay 170 a month for floor fee 2 class lessons and 1 private lesson, and one "condition class"
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10-04-2004, 08:50 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 105
| 20$ a month, plus 25$ a year for club membership(for use of the armorer and such) That's 2 classes a week, with lessons once to twice a week all year 'round, plus 2 more a week free ones at the local college with lessons there as well. | |
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10-04-2004, 09:44 PM
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#9 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 16
| I pay $60/half semester, with practices four days a week.
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10-04-2004, 09:56 PM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Canada
Posts: 124
| $50 Canadian per semester. This includes use of kit, lessons (inc. private) and 2 (or 3... it may go up) practices a week.
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10-04-2004, 10:24 PM
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#11 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 128
| my child fences at the fencers club $550 a year 2 private lessons @ $35 per; one footwk/conditioning @$25 and one gen class @$55 every week! and $400 for 1 yrs locker rental. We also pay $200 per season (3 mos) to fence for the high school. | |
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10-05-2004, 01:52 AM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Western MA
Posts: 34
| My club is $50/ month and $20/lesson. | |
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10-05-2004, 02:02 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Weiden Germany
Posts: 231
| 17 Euros a month. | |
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10-05-2004, 06:07 AM
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#14 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Somewhere in your nightmares!
Posts: 22,893
| $20 per semester. Lessons are extra. ( This is a college club. ) | |
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10-05-2004, 06:38 AM
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#15 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Brisbane - Australia
Posts: 348
| free for school but it's only 6 weeks a year. have to goto girls grammar for whole year training sessions. But i goto club once in a while and that's 10 dollars a lesson | |
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10-05-2004, 06:40 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Posts: 604
| I think it's about $90.00 a year. | |
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10-05-2004, 11:00 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Colorado
Posts: 343
| For all my training I pay a total of $130 a month (1 lesson per week, dues at two clubs for three nights of fencing, and a gym membership). The good thing is my gym membership should go down in about 10 months or so, and I'll save $25 a month. | |
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10-05-2004, 11:06 AM
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#18 | | Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,021
| I'm renegotiating my pay schedule with my coach now. We both agree that he needs to pay me more for the honor of giving me a lesson. (I sometimes collect fees from observers as well.) | |
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10-05-2004, 11:12 AM
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#19 | | Just Joined
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 15
| I'm the beginner coach for a college club. We have undergrads pay $30/semester, but if they join USFA, it's $25. Everyone else (community members, grad students, etc) pays $50/semester. That includes 4 2 hour sessions per week and individual lessons as the other coach has time, which averages once every other week. They pay nothing extra for the lessons. We generally have 2 drill intensive practices and 2 bouting focused practices, so there's something for everyone. | |
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10-05-2004, 11:15 AM
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#20 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Pennsauken, NJ
Posts: 8,588
| $65/month + lesson fees ($25/lesson).
Former 2 clubs no membership fee as I was a coach.
Club before that $200/year.
Club before that $175/year (UMass).
Club before that free as I was a student at the school that hosted the club.
-B :)
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