Originally Posted by
Chris Herzog
Not at all, the host is not just paying for a few hours during a seminar, you are usually pay for 3 days of their time. When I leave town on the weekends it costs me money, I also have to find coverage for my classes.
If I were to travel to any of my instructors schools I'd pay at least that (I usually drop $1500-2000+) on my trips to LA to train. It would be double that to go to Russia. I very rarely make money when I host seminars I usually loose money. But its always less that what I woulda have paid to go train with my instructors.
Most of us have done free seminars, I have done several. This is my career and a seminar with me you are getting a professional seminar with expert material in a well fomated and developed presentation based on 29+ years experience. It worth double that amount. I have been to several seminars taught by blackbelts, there presentation and ability to articulate information was horrible. That doesn't happen at mine. They are also not just getting the knowledge of a "brown belt", they are also getting the knowdledge of an international Judo (5th degree Black Belt) and Sambo medalist.