How much have you paid...

[Tatu]

How much have you paid to attend (e.g., travel, hotel, food, etc) a kendo tournament?

[Gideon]

bigger than a breadbox, smaller than a car.

[chainz]

it depends how far it the tournament

[samurai80]

Damn...all together...probably close to $400. It is always cheaper to only have to compete in shiai, of course. Actually, this 16th will be the first tournament I didn't have to test at as well. I probably would've paid more at the one that cost close to $400, but at the time I had an awesome hotel hook-up, and paid next to nothing, but it was still a costly experience. Here is the South of the U.S., we have few tournaments period, and unfortunately Charlotte is usually as far as possible from all the tournaments in our federation. It is a major battle to even make these tournaments. Even worsr I would say, is to try to make the nationals. We have to pay our own way, and since the tournaments are usually a good 1,300 miles away (at least), I can only imagine having to pay for that. That reason alone made me decide not to even try out(this year).

[Kagerou]

Well for my first shiai I had to come to Japan...start kendo....buy bogu....and live here while doing all that so....a lot.

[bobdonny]

bout 2/3 thousand Euro for WKC/EKC.

and my limit of 600/700 for smaller competitions.

[bobdonny]

oops, duplicate

[ne0r]

Woah, that's a lot.

Usually we don't go to the nationals, but we go to the bavarian championship each year and it costs close to nothing with car-pooling etc. Perhaps 10€ for the tournament itself? I can't really remember.

But seminars can get a bit costly. A trip to france is organized in a yearly manner here, that would make like 110€ or something like that.
(But there are lots of national/bavarian seminars, too, that cost about 10-20€ each. Or at least I haven't paid more than that until now^^ And I haven't attended a lot of tournaments/shiais.)

[hl1978]

about 700-800 bucks for georgia. 1k for AUSKF iaido championships.

[Neil Gendzwill]

Typically $500 for gradings and tournaments in Vancouver. I might have spent close to $1000 for Nationals in Montreal a few years ago.

[satsumaruma]

Given that my home town club organise one of the main BKA seminars it can be very cheap -£30.

Equally, attending Brighton costs well over £300.

[chidokan]

Japan next month. £450 airfare, 2 weeks stay, and spend, spend, spend, on new kit. Enough not to discuss the total amount with 'her indoors'...:laugh:

[tango]

i try to save as much money as humanly possible to get to a tournament/shinsa... thankfully, everybody else in our group is of the same mindset..

sleep comfort is something some of us have not really sacrificed as we've gotten older, but there was certainly a time when we'd carpool 6 guys in a mini-van, with all the gear, split the gas (everybody winds up paying probably about 1 tank of gas so... roughly $50 there....
then we seek out the cheapest hotel we can find... one time, it was a motel 6. We park way off to the side and send one guy in to sign-in as a single... and then we park all 6 guys in a single room... take the springs off the box set and you've got two "beds"... that takes care of 4 guys. one guy gets the tub... and with all the gear all over the place, that leaves just enough room on the floor for the last guy. $70 for 2 nights in the motel 6... so, you do the math.

~$50 gas.
~$10-$12 for a room (2 nights)
~$25 for the tournament.
~$20 for the goodwill dinner/party
~$15 for the shinsa
~$20 for all other food...

Yeah... bout $150ish ... and this of course assumes that you don't buy any goodies at the tables...

[Jiyoui]

Yeah... bout $150ish ... and this of course assumes that you don't buy any goodies at the tables...

NO! Not the goodies on the tables!!! temptation!!!:eek:

[MikeW]

As little as humanly possible. ;) $200-300 or so at most and that was actually for 2 of us.

[cesarekim]

High was about 1400 Euro for Korean Amateur Nationals in Seoul. Airfare and presents for the people hosting us - 1100 Euro. Money for shinai and other goodies - 300 Euro. Sad thing is that I was actually a staff member so I had to pay to go and didn't even get to compete because I was busy being the interpreter...

Low is in the 30 Euro range for a day trip where we car pool. Competitions cost about 10 Euro and the remaining 20 cover gas and lunch.