Originally Posted by
Kurzy
I hear what you're saying Josh. We really do have a different thing going, on with all the amazing clubs at our disposal we can just show up and roll at if we feel like it. We are used to seeing top notch JJ players teaching rooms filled of students for free or for pennies.
Not every area has that culture, so be thankful!
(I know you are bro)
Zog - I am actually really wanting to come down and roll at your moon some weekend. I have wanted for for a year now but I just haven't been able to pull it together. Let me know if I am welcome and I will set something up once this super-shitty candian winter passes.
Let me know the matt fee, etc.
I totally get what Josh is saying, and I totally jive with what ScottRay said too.
I would love to Fly Denny to Peterborough, or get Zog to drive up, or whatever other 10P beast:
But our club is small and after paying for a ticket and hotel and food and beers or whatever, I would already be out a thousand dollars. Boom.
Then the students roll in and only 12 show up and Boom. I'd be short again. Then I'd hand it all over and that's that.
Then I return to normal life and my vehicles break down and my furnace requires repair and my dogs suddenly require testicular cancer treatment and my visa is maxed, and my pay cheque is gone to bills.
Then my wife divorces me and my children starve.
lol.
Just screwing around.
But yeah, the market here is not like larger cities where BJJ names are well known. People don't flock to seminars. That's all I am saying. Much respect to the beasts who teach and you do deserve what you can get, but imo, you will not be able to get the same dollar figures at every stop.
It reminds me of when I was setting up a tour for my old band (Heaps of Dead) with an Ottawa grind band (Fuck the Facts) and a band I brought from Belgium (Emeth).
I managed to get $600 on a Fri and Sat night in two decent cites on contract. The rest of the shows were all like $200 here, $300 there, and more often than not, promoters would come up short.
That money had to get split with all three bands and Emeth naturally got the most.
When I was booking it, I knew there was no way that I could get the same money in Niagra Falls on a Saturday night that I could in Toronto on a Saturday night. It's just part of the business. The market just isn't the same.
Shit for that matter, Emeth deserved to get paid $800 to a grand a night alone! But there is just no way, even though they deserved it.