Testing and Test Fees
Sun 01:38 PST. Posted by staff@riposte.org.
If you take a moment to explore a variety of martial arts, one of the truisms you’ll identify is this: for every martial art, and every organization within a given martial art, there is at least one philosophy behind testing. Some martial arts, for example, heavily utilize testing in an effort to (and I’ll be polite here) ensure the viability of their style as a business. I have written at least once before about a martial arts business close to my home that charged a neighbor of mine close to $400 for their child to test for the next rank. Most of us who approach martial arts training with some semblance of a conscience recoil at such blatant attempts to monetize training, yet clearly this model works, because schools like these are not uncommon.
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