Im in very family oriented martial arts club.  The rates are the most reasonable of all sports in our community, and the parents are good to offer help initially....But when it comes down to needing help with equipment cleaning, cleaning after tournaments, etc....no one steps up...maybe 1 or two and we have an 80 + club...so we are considering increasing our rates...but really dont want to. I need to get the students and parents to help out more. The whole point is to make it affordable so the whole family can participate and the kids are introduced to a very positive and character building environment.  However there is 2 of us running it 3 times a week and we both have careers and families.....the tournaments we hold and other activities take alot out of us preparing then having to clean up and such...
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Ask them too.  The parents are paying for participation and coaching in the sport.  You may not be able to get them to help you clean the equipment (that's why they pay you), but you can get them to help in tournaments and fund raisers by asking them.  You can also ask them to help you put equipment away or take down tables after a tournament etc... Get a volunteer sign up sheet and ask everyone to sign up for helping on at least one thing spread the tasks out (so that different people are doing things on different dates etc..) Then remind them nicely the day or week before and Thank them afterwards.  In General people like to help but people also like to be recognized when they do and a heartfelt Thank you usually does it.
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Maybe someone would help you out if you gave a good reason here why they should.  Paid membership is less than five bucks.  Why can't you just pay your own way, assuming you even want to get involved with an organization like that. (Hope you like to get tons and tons of spam.)
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I helped people in my area with odd jobs. I charge 10$hr weather I was doing yardwork or Addressing envelopes.1hr min.It is a great way to get involved.10$ isn't alot but it's under the table and you are doing a good deed.Some are elderly or in recovering and need help with simple things like lifting or bending.Great insight on the world around you to.
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I think it is a great idea! And I don't think it is boasting....heck, even if people want to start competing, it's still great. At least people are doing nice things for others. It is also about sharing the good feelings it creates in the do gooders. So, I don't think that the first answer to the question is very good.
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actually, we do, but its not really an offical club with school fundings and stuff. ITs more like a group of people who like anime enough to publish something from our handiwork. \nMost of the stiff you'd find in them are compiled comics from different people of the goup, anonymous contributors, and anime info requests sent in by younger members. \nOfcourse, the group gathering is quite loaded with rules that all must comply. The heads of the gathering are mostly from the high level students, like the seniors. This is applied so that the members of the clud would not suffer in their school work. The more mature the member gets, the more controlled he/she is in working in the publication.\nIts no wonder your teachers would not allow you to make one in school. Anime can get very addictive, nd often times lead you to get distracted from school work.BEsides, its purely an interest based  club.\nMy advice is, even though you're not asking for it, try talking to your teacher about the hobby. Give her the good points of your idea about making a club. Although often times the higher authorities would disagree...\nIn situations like that, why not just make a club among your friends and pass it on to the next generation of people who share the same idea as you do? That's how the anime club in school started. As of today, we're the 14th batch of members. Who knows? you could be a founder of a student based anime club! you could look back one day and see younger students following your footsteps...\nand feel nostalgia in the process...hehe...
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yeah its ok. if ur really good some people could pay u 80 bucks and hour per session. if ur a good coach college teams may wanna look at u or u can train them for big bucks. i no this trainer and he had alot of succes with this proffesion
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you could try to talk to little league headquaters and if theres not a little league already in that area try to convince them that there would be people willing to play the problem would be taht since your dealing with people that dont really have the money to pay for little league it would be a very hard thing to do but if you got a stadium out there it would be posible to start a small league on the unused feilds you would just need schedules of when they use the feilds so you don't disrupt them.(and im not entirely sure how this works so maybe cross a couple sugestions or something).  if tehre is a little league near you you might be able to raise money for the kids to enter get in with but your talking a little under a hundred dollars a kid (im not entirely sure it can be done) other then those i dont know and as for using a little leagues feilds you wouldn't be able to charge for them to play (although it dosent sound like you would really want to) since your really just playing a game and i dont think your allowed to make a profit off of it.  you would need to raise at least enough money to buy 5 helmets for every team you put toghether (one for batter 3 for runners on base and one for on deck guy) and would also need (for 4 teams) at least 2 sets of catcher gear.  starting a league like this is kinda hard because your starting with nothing to really use but you need alot.  if you can get it started maybe put out flyers and get people that may be willing to chip in and eventualy you got yourself something good maybe.  I'm not sure im much help but good luck and i hope it works out.
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If you're going to have anybody pitching your product around here these days, you couldn't do much better than Lindy Ruff. \nWith a big assist from the Sabres' head coach, some Clarence Central School District youngsters are closing in on their goal of raising enough money to travel later this month to Knoxville, Tenn. They will compete in the global finals of the Destination ImagiNation tournament, a kind of mental Olympics in which student teams do creative problem solving. \n\nThe vehicle to get them there - aside from the bus on which they'll travel - is a rubber wristband. Kids and their parents are selling 6,000 of them in the Sabres' old and new team color combinations, as a fund-raiser. \n\nRuff purchased four of the rubber bracelets for good luck, then talked about them at a news conference earlier this week. His endorsement appears to be paying off, according to Helena Kleinlein, president of Clarence "DI" Boosters, a parent organization that assists the student teams and conducts fund-raisers. The group already had raised about $8,000. \n\n"I don't think [Ruff] actually meant to endorse the bracelets. I think he was just being a good sport and supporting the children, but we do appreciate his comments," Kleinlein said. \n\n"I would imagine the words "Creative Teamwork' that appear on the bands might have struck home with some and, perhaps, that is what any team manager hopes to achieve with their team," she added. \n\nAnd as his team gels into playoff success, it's what Ruff has had in mind for the Sabres. That's the same lesson Kleinlein hopes will be instilled in the young participants in the Destination ImagiNation competition. \n\n"I absolutely see parallels," Kleinlein said. "When you begin the year . . . with seven individuals [on a team], each of these students thinks that their idea is the biggest and brightest. The challenge, as a team manager, is to get the children to step back and listen to their teammates and find a way to work together to accomplish a goal. \n\n"Once a team becomes a family, that is when they can really achieve greatness. They respect each other, they listen to each and they acknowledge good points that everyone brings up. They use each other to raise the team higher," she said. \n\nSeven teams from the Clarence School District qualified for the state competition, held April 8 in Binghamton. Ruff's youngest children, 11-year-old twins Brian and Madeleine, are on one of the three Clarence teams that qualified for the global finals, scheduled for May 24-27. \n\nThis is the fourth year teams from Clarence have been in the competition, and the second year that any have made it to the global finals. \n\nKathy Cipresso, treasurer of the "DI" Boosters, has a daughter on one of the three teams in the finals. This year's team is made up of elementary and middle schoolers. \n\n"We're trying to grow the program. There's such an interest now that we may end up having a high school team next year," Cipresso said. \n\nTeams from all 50 states are in the global finals, as well as teams from Israel, China, Great Britain, France and Spain. \n\nAt the invitation of the Sabres organization, the youngsters and their parent boosters were at the HSBC Arena pavilion before the start of Game Four Thursday to sell what remained of their rubber wristband inventory. The items were sold for $2 apiece. \n\n"The goal is to make sure that the travel expenses of the children and their team managers are met. It's imperative that the children are not held back by finances," said Kleinlein. \n\nDoes it matter to them that those buying the bracelets may have been motivated more by helping the Sabres than assisting Clarence Destination ImagiNation team? Not really, said Kleinlein. \n\n"The message on the bracelet is far-reaching. If it has another meaning for some, that&#39
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If you can't go for a walk, and can't do a video at home, looks like  a option would be going to a club, most of them have day care now, for pretty cheap too.  We have one at our club, and it's very reasonable, the girls bring all of their kids and work out for an hour or two.  Think  about it.
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some apartment complex's will not allow you to establish a "business" out of your home. If it is just extra money babysitting, you want to take a child and infant CPR class, make sure you have good renters insurance in case someone gets hurt in your apartment, and keep good records, document every bump and bruise on the child so you don't get blamed for anything. In this day and age it is hardly worth it unless you are already familiar with the family you would be working for. I would clean offices or houses on the weekends for extra cash, build up a few regular clients and that way you would have a structured schedule. I hope it works out for ya.
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Oh hell yes, not only are the tips good but this sport is a mostly rich mans sport and if you caddie for some really up there big wigs in the business world then you have some good contacts for a good paying job if you treat them well enough.  The trick is since you don't know who's who on the course then you gotta treat them all well.  But the benefits out weigh the cons, so you got that goin for ya.
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you should be learning how to make more money to get a good instructor instead of looking for a free one. You usually get what you pay for. Learning forms without knowing how to apply it in real life and making it work 100% percent of the time may get you hurt or killed. There are too many so called blackbelts out there that couldnt fight their way out of a bag.
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I think Camjerman's estimate is pretty low, even for used gear.\n\nI'd budget at least $500 for gear, total.  At *least*.  Sometimes you can get loaner or hand me down gear -- if he's just trying it out that's a great way to go.\n\nThen keep in mind the other costs, like league or class fees.  I pay anywhere from $350 a season for my son to almost $500 a season for my own coed league.\n\nIt's not a cheap sport.  But worth every penny, as I've said.
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It won't help you directly. I mean the admission people at the Universities won't say "Hey! This one has got martial arts! I know I'm choosing to invite!". But if you can learn life-skills though Martial Arts, it might help you through the stressful times at University.
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How about some type of tournament to enter and watch.  Maybe you could do some events for parents to take their tykes to for like 1 or 2 dollars and they compete in events and get little metals and other such prizes etc\n\nThere's the old standard dance\n\nsecret items secret auctions where you dont what you're bidding on but you may know some of the contents of the boxes in the auction.  Like there's a cd player in one so bid on this bla bla bla.  a 30 dollar cd player people bidding 5 or 6 dollars and some crap prizes worth 5 bucks total and make about 20 of those and wolla you've got instant money for crap.\n\nkissing (whore) booth where the guys and girls pay 1 for a kiss or whatnot from the hottest chicks in school and the hottest guys in school.\n\ndating auctions, an always interesting one this one the resources are usually free and you might get a community business to donate a meal for the winners or something.
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. send home student journals, fitness tips and benefits for parents to revise AND review.\n\nIt would also be beneficial to have them sign the journal indicating that they have read it.\n\nYou could also have students devise activities that they and their families complete together to promote overall physical fitness.  For example 30 minutes a week of a family oriented activity such as going for a walk, bike ride or playing any kind sport (soccer, basketball, etc.)at the local park.  Thus getting the whole family involved.
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in-house competitions are always good. my team runs them once a week, with the winner having an all expense paid for lunch.\n\nalternatively i know other ppl tend to put up small prizes for grabs such as a free trip to the hair dressers etc.