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Is learning Jitsu expensive?
Everything’s relative. Compared to watching television all night, we’re expensive. Compared to other hobbies or other martial arts, we’re actually quite cheap.
Your first session will be free: we figure if you get a taster of Jitsu, you’ll come back for more and we'd prefer not to put you off from coming.
After that, sessions are £5 for the waged and £3 for the unwaged. If you train regularly, you’ll also have to spend money on:
- a special white costume (gi). It’s built from strong material and you don’t want to have all your T-shirts ripped. That’ll cost you about £30. Pricey? About the same price as a pair of trousers, they’ll last longer, they include a white belt (normally £5 in shops) and a Jitsu Foundation badge (normally £1).
- insurance. It costs £20 per year and is probably the most comprehensive of any martial art's, owing to a deal we did way-back when.
- belts. They cost about £5 every time you grade and you can buy them from any good sports shop (except for light blue belts. A bit of home-dyeing and a white belt is needed there). Other bits of gear you don’t have to worry about until you’re a brown belt…
- gradings, courses, etc. It’s up to you if you grade, attend courses, etc., but they’re good fun, and they only cost about £12 for a day. Big weekend events cost about £50, including accommodation. Bargain.
And that’s about it. No having to buy a new costume every time you grade at an exorbitant price (one of our members who used to train in another jiu-jitsu style used to have to spend £200 every time he graded…). No new badges every time you go up a grade. No exorbitant membership fee. Even the sessions (which last two hours) are cheap.
In fact, probably the most expensive aspect of Jitsu is buying a round in the pub afterwards…
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Where we train
City Jitsu Club trains twice a week near Angel and the Barbican, London, EC1, at City University, Northampton Square, Islington.
Training times
Monday: 7.30pm–9pm
Friday: 7pm–9pm
Almado wrote:
June 22, 2008 | Reply
[this is good] Hi
I want to come round and join in the fun. I've been to Brighton Jitsu and I got an orange belt.... and recently moved down to london.
I want to know a few things plz about ur club.
I got a taster at Archway Jitsu, I really enjoyed it but what is putting me off is the price. In brighton we had to pay £20 for the whole month but at Archway Jitsu its £4 every session, which comes to about £48 for a month if i went to all (3) of their sessions in a week.
Do you guys offer a monthly price and I could come as many times I like in a week? I only ask cos I really enjoy jitsu (honestly) and if I could do many sessions in a week, for less I'll be over the moon.
The second question is how many sessions do u have in a week? please tell me u have couple, preferably 3! and what days are they on?
Thanks for ur help.
Almado
June 22, 2008 | Reply
There's no monthly price, only a per session price. There are two sessions a week - Mondays and Fridays – and you can come to both of them or just one per week. This page has all the details.
hannah wrote:
June 23, 2008 | Reply
Hello, are these sessions still running mondays and fridays despite that it is now effectively the school holidays? Do you offer a student discount?
Any info would be appreciated!
Hannah
June 23, 2008 | Reply
Yes, they are still running - we only stop for public holidays and Christmas/New Year. There is a student discount - full details on the page I linked to above.