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**Numbiydq** · 02-26-2010, 08:27 AM

Being on the East Coast doesn't necessarily mean we are "closer to everything". I went to GW (Washington D.C.) and Cornell is about a 6 hour drive. Harvard is about an 8 hour drive and if you ask anybody from VA Tech or further south on the east coast they might be close to William and Mary but that is about it. Plus not everyone is lucky enough to get a van from the school so multiple cars are usually the method of travel. If you want to travel although you might get some value from going to a tournament. Travel to a local dojo visit other local clubs and practice with local people more. If your lucky to have a local club with experienced people you will get more value out of practicing with them maybe 2 to 3 times a month or more than going to every tournament you can to compete. There is no replacement for practice in the club/dojo and going to a couple more tournaments when West Coast players have 3 to 4 local tournaments a month in driving distance won't help much.

Hear is the truth about schools is that they care about money and their students but mostly money. Most likely the kendo club is not providing them a big enough cash flow. If you are able to host a well known annual tournament like Cornell or Harvard that has had a great track record for more than 10 years and the number of attendees increases almost every year. Maybe the school will support you with space and funding for that event because it adds to their prestige. Going to tournaments yeah it helps when you are submitting your budget to the student association but more tournaments doesn't necesarrily equal more dollars you will recieve. An example is when I was in college the Anime club got more money than the kendo club. The anime club watches anime and they really don't do much else other than maybe go to anime conventions. This happens because the anime club is smart enough to have a person always submit their budget on time every year and the club might get priority being an older club. Also it doesn't hurt to have friends that are members of the student association who approve the budget or members that are also officers of the student association. It has been talked about before in the forum but there are other ways of making money like ushering sporting events. Most likely you can easily make more than the budget your receive if you can get enough people.

02-26-2010, 08:27 AM	#11
Numbiydq Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 568 Senior Member	Being on the East Coast doesn't necessarily mean we are "closer to everything". I went to GW (Washington D.C.) and Cornell is about a 6 hour drive. Harvard is about an 8 hour drive and if you ask anybody from VA Tech or further south on the east coast they might be close to William and Mary but that is about it. Plus not everyone is lucky enough to get a van from the school so multiple cars are usually the method of travel. If you want to travel although you might get some value from going to a tournament. Travel to a local dojo visit other local clubs and practice with local people more. If your lucky to have a local club with experienced people you will get more value out of practicing with them maybe 2 to 3 times a month or more than going to every tournament you can to compete. There is no replacement for practice in the club/dojo and going to a couple more tournaments when West Coast players have 3 to 4 local tournaments a month in driving distance won't help much. Hear is the truth about schools is that they care about money and their students but mostly money. Most likely the kendo club is not providing them a big enough cash flow. If you are able to host a well known annual tournament like Cornell or Harvard that has had a great track record for more than 10 years and the number of attendees increases almost every year. Maybe the school will support you with space and funding for that event because it adds to their prestige. Going to tournaments yeah it helps when you are submitting your budget to the student association but more tournaments doesn't necesarrily equal more dollars you will recieve. An example is when I was in college the Anime club got more money than the kendo club. The anime club watches anime and they really don't do much else other than maybe go to anime conventions. This happens because the anime club is smart enough to have a person always submit their budget on time every year and the club might get priority being an older club. Also it doesn't hurt to have friends that are members of the student association who approve the budget or members that are also officers of the student association. It has been talked about before in the forum but there are other ways of making money like ushering sporting events. Most likely you can easily make more than the budget your receive if you can get enough people.
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