Training Fees

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Monthly subscription

One-time subscription fee: $25

During our special promotion, take 50% off your first month, and pay no subscription fee!

Unlimited classes

• Individual: $99/month
• 2 family members: $149/month
• 3 family members: $199/month

Limited plan, 1 class/week

• Individual: $69/month
• 2 family members: $109/month
• 3 family members: $149/month

• Family discount applies to students in the same household
• You may pause your subscription for up to two months with no payment penalty (in case of travel, kids taking a break from karate over a sports season, etc.)

No long-term contracts, no high-pressure sales.

Sliding scale available. We do not want to turn away dedicated students for financial reasons; if you sincerely want to train with us but cannot afford to do so, we will make arrangements.

Other Costs

Training fees do not include additional expenses, such as:

• Purchase of a uniform ("gi"). I suggest that new students - especially kids - wait a few weeks and see if interest continues before purchasing a gi; you can train in a t-shirt and sweatpants at first.

  More information on buying and caring for a karate gi.

• For summer training, please purchase one of our Catonsville Seido Karate t-shirt designs.
• World Seido Karate Organization membership. $20/year, 3 years for $40. Must be a member before taking promotion; again, I suggest new students wait a bit.
• Seido Karate patches for the gi. Buy a set when you join the organization. $40 for a pair. Patches last a long time, they will likely outlast your gi and can be transferred to a new one.
• Promotion fees. Promotion exams are held at the Howard County YMCA Seido Karate Program. For students below green belt, the fee is $40. Your first few promotion exams might be at three to six month intervals; they get further apart as you go on. (Black belt promotions are held at our headquarters in New York and are more expensive - but it's a little early to worry about that...)
• Sparring safety gear. You don't have to worry about buying this until you reach green belt, typically a year to eighteen months of training.
• Books. Not a mandatory purchase, but I recommend Kaicho Nakamura's "textbook" Karate Kyohan, and his autobiography The Human Face of Karate to all students. Both are available at the Seido on-line store. (We have a dojo copy of Human Face of Karate for lending.) Kaicho's older book Karate: Technique and Spirit is also recommended.

  Outside of Seido, other suggested reading includes Gichin Funakoshi's autobiography Karate-do: My Way of Life, and Eugen Herrigel's famous Zen in the Art of Archery. If you keep training you might find yourself collecting martial arts books - it can become an expensive habit!