JAB wrote:ashe
As with you I am entitled to my opinion. Last time I checked you did not show up to anything of "mine" so I am not sure if you know 100% what you are talking about. As I stated worth is subjective. It was obviously worth it for you to fly 2000 miles to portland for your teacher, but it was never "worth" it for you to drive 500 when I lived in NM to train so.....
that just sounds like sour grapes.
a) i don't think you were still living in NM by the time i started posting here
b) i NEVER attend other peoples workshops for several reasons
1) budget
2) time - i'd rather be really good at ILC, so any extra time for training should go into that. not touring somebody else's system that i'll never work on again after the weekend is over. or just picking up a little of this and a little of that. very few people can make that kind of approach work for them.
3) my passion is for ILC so there's very few things out there that i'd be interested in anyway (daito-ryu or some other JJ maybe or possibly a knife system), and then we go back to number 2 above...
we had a sponsor to go to OR, so the whole deal was covered (i.e. it didn't "fail"), but he didn't have a base of his own students or a network of other MA guys in the area to promote to as did the folks who did Tim's workshop. In contrast look at the success of the recent London workshop. Now, if you can go a new city the first time and have a killer turnout without those things I'd be interested in how you do that.
JAB wrote: But worth is based on what others are willing to shell out, and their is a certain saturation point as well.
funny that you mention that. i noticed that you seem to imply the your BJJ teachers are in a different league than my Sifu, so I'd like the chance to convince you that he's worth every penny he charges.
the nearest workshop to you coming up would be the next Oakland workshop http://iliqchuan.com/content/oakland-ca ... s-workshop
i'll meet you there. you can touch hands with my Sifu there, then we can touch hands (we can even spar a few rounds if you want).
if you come away from the weekend GENUINELY not impressed with what we have to offer, i'll cover your workshop fee myself, otherwise you pay FULL price, and either way you write about the whole weekend in your blog. what do you say?