The Siu Lum Cost Advantage

In today's society it’s always go, go, go; rush; rush; rush. It’s getting more and more difficult to commit to doing anything long term.

Work takes up to 8 hours (or more) per day. Then you get home and dive right in to the children's activities. With the day to day family life, it is understandable why most people don't make time for themselves.

Many activities require three or more days of commitment in order to extract perceived full value from them. This is usually why they are short lived. Life gets in the way, and before you know it, you are mulling over whether or not it’s worth it.

At Siu Lum Canada we train one hour per week. Where is the cost advantage? Where is the value? Let me explain and the answers will be evident.

What are the advantages to training once per week?

• It is far easier to set aside one hour per week when bogged down with a busy schedule.
• It allows the movements to move from the conscious mind to the subconscious mind and become reflex responses.
• Siu Lum Canada students are constantly challenged to remember movements under stress due to the break, and this simulates real life stress when dealing with the unexpected.
• The mind and body require time to absorb and recover.
• Allows Siu Lum Canada instructors to keep class sizes small and provide more personal instruction.

What do I do during the other 6 days of the week?

• Siu Lum Canada students are given numerous techniques and exercises designed to improve reflex response, speed, strength, as well as help them become more technically proficient during class-taught movements.
• 15 minutes per day time commitment for the exercises.
• Siu Lum Canada students are expected to reflect upon movements taught and imagine possible scenarios where they could/would/should use them. This provides an opportunity for the student to answer scenario based questions for themselves, or discover scenario questions they would like to bring to the instructors attention.

Now think about your current or previous class. It doesn't matter what martial art. There is training several days a week. What is the majority of that martial arts training? Cardio? Techniques? Do you practice punching a bag over and over and over again?

Let’s say you have three classes a week at one hour per class. You’re already up to three hours (in case you didn't know). Your travel time obviously depends on where you live. For arguments sake, let’s say 20 mins there and 20 mins back. Now, times that by three. Your travelling time per week is 120 mins (or 2 hours for those of you who are time telling disadvantaged). That’s 8 hours a month!

Now you’re up to 5 hours for one week. That’s 20 hours a month.

Now let’s factor in gas. If it’s winter time, you’re warming up the car to drive there; warming up the car to drive home. You get the picture. With the gas prices the way they are, and depending on your vehicle of course, you’re looking at minimum $100 per month if you’re lucky.

So, you think that you’re paying what the martial arts school advertises. You think that you’re getting “value”. Maybe you are, maybe you aren't. But, if you think you’re paying the advertised price of $80 (or whatever) a month and getting great value by going three times a week, you may very well be possibly wrong. You’re paying $80 + $100 + 8 hours of time spent away from your family because you’re driving + 12 hours of time spent away from your family because you’re in class.

THAT IS A VERY BIG COMMITMENT AND INVESTMENT.

The cost advantage or benefits for Siu Lum Canada:

• Predictable class schedule
• Real life, real time training
• Less travel time, meaning less gas money and time away from family
• Low time commitment
• More personal instruction
• Smaller class size
• Self-driven home training

Siu Lum Canada is Winnipeg's Shaolin school. We teach the Siu Lum style of kung fu. Our training revolves around real life situations and real life solutions. There is no question that we will not answer.

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