In calculating approximately how much money I was going to be spending
on aikido during 1997, I came up with a projected total of $2460.
Janet asked me:
Could you calculate the cost per ukemi on that? ;-)
Well, let's see.
I'm averaging about, I'd say, 4 nights a week of practice (some weeks, 6
nights, and other weeks less), each practice being about three hours long.
Taking into account my time as nage and all the time the instructor talks
in a class, I'd guess I only take an ukemi every minute and a half or so.
(About 40 falls an hour. Does that sound about right?)
So, I guess the equation would look like:
52 weeks 4 nights 3 hours
-------- X -------- X ------- X
year week night
60 minutes 1 ukemi 24,960 ukemi
---------- X ----------- = ------------
hour 1.5 minutes year
So,
$2460 year 9.85 cents
------ X ------------ =~ -----------
year 24,960 ukemi ukemi
And sheesh. This is what I'm spending to take ukemi.
Basically, if I just started to charge a dime for every ukemi I took,
I'd come out ahead ($36 ahead, to be exact).
So I have since then decided upon the following sliding scale for ukemi:
|
|
| Back rolls |
8 cents |
| Nikyo/Sankyo/Yonkyo |
10 cents (frail wrists) |
| Back breakfall |
11 cents |
| Front breakfall |
12 cents |
| Projected 5 feet |
15 cents |
| Projected 10 feet |
20 cents |
| Projected 10+ feet |
20 cents + 2 cents per foot over 10 feet projected |
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