Martial Arts Resort?

I want to create a place of vacation where martial arts are offered as the main attraction. A place where beginners can see different martial arts; higher ranks can practice with their peers; and instructors can focus on their own training. Different martial arts, a scenic place, good nutritious delicious food. Throw in massage and spa services and a reasonable rate (How about $400/500 per night). What do you think? Would you go to a place like that? Would you spend money? How much? What would you like to see a Martial Arts Resort? Fantasize and let me know - it just might happen.

Martial Arts Resort?
I think it sounds awesome. I'd put my pennies back to visit at least once. In my humble opinion...if it was $400-$500 a night, it better be freakin' killer!!! Depending upon services available, i.e. spa, massage, instruction, "shows", I'd pay about $250/night. So, I could spend the weekend. Maybe make the seminars/"shows"/instructions a' la carte items that you have to pre-register for in advance with your booking date. Then I could see spending the $400 or $500 extra a weekend. No one wants to pay for 20 things to do, but only time to do 5.


Just my thoughts.


Good luck, sounds really cool.





EDIT: My two cents on David N's response...


Serious or not about your art, in my opinion, it is always good to view and participate in instruction/sparring/techniques of other styles. It helps you to find and fix the holes in your own style.
Reply:I wouldn't!





Anybody REALLY serious about their martial art (if they would even consider going to such a place!) would probably choose a place that is isolated, spartan and focuses on only their own martial arts form.





Well... maybe not "spartan" -- but something which reflects the roots of the discipline.





That's why serious students go to the remote monasteries in the mountains of China and Tibet!





EDIT: Response to Chaney's response...


I am approaching this from the point of view of one who does not practice a martial art in order to "learn how to fight"...





Rather they learn a technique that is a TOOL which assists them in learning their martial art!


This is the case especially in INTERNAL martial arts.
Reply:I think that 'martial arts' is such a wide topic with many styles and methods that you would need to simplify if a bit for it to work. However, I think its a great idea.





Having studied Japanese martial arts, my preference would be for a little japan of sorts.





Turn it into not just a martial arts thing, but something for anyone interested in that culture and its history - its good to understand where and how whatever art you do comes from, but doesn't have to be just for martial artists. In fact, something like that could be mainly focused on the martial arts to draw both practitioners and non-practitioners into coming. Who knows - perhaps some non-practitioners would take up an art just because their visit inspired them.





An authentic feudal 'village' with many small dojos or various arts (karate, aikido/jutsu, iaido/jutsu, sodo/jutsu, jodo, naginatajutsu, kendo/jutsu, judo/jutsu, kyudo, chado, caligraphy), houses (as guest accommodations), inns (as restaurants serving authentic Japanese cuisine), temples (zen and shinto specifically), shops for things Japanese (gis and other clothing, calligraphy, weapons, art, etc.,... Basically, an attempt to go back in time to feudal japan in this case. Everything would be open to everyone - if you like judo, spend your time with that, but if you practice judo and want to give kendo a try, go ahead. Just want to watch? That's fine too. Need help understanding the culture? That's fine - there are 'basic training' classes to understand ettiquite, how to put on your traditional clothing (which you get to take home with you), etc.,...





You could have noh and kabuki theater in the evenings and perhaps a haiku contest for the guests. Go tournaments, cherry blossom festivals, flower arrangements done by masters daily... anything that fits the culture would work. It could also employ a boat load of struggling artists from all sorts of different forms.





For a Chinese resort, you would have similar things (in all honesty, I'd go to that one for the food alone), but the 'dojos' would be areas within the Buddhist temples, practiced outside in courtyards. I don't know how a Korean or Indonesian resort would be setup to be authentic. In all cases, the same basic idea would apply. Replicate a historic culture and then insert various aspect of that culture - heavy on the martial arts.





I think that the idea is great, but a huge danger would be commercialization. If it gets commercialized to the extent it looses the historic feel, it would loose the impact and would just be another Disney land BS amusement park. If was something like I describe, hell yeah I would go - often as I could in fact. I'd even work there if I got a monthy stipend in addition to free room, board and training.
Reply:Sounds interesting and while I usualy train alone it may be an interesting way to train a while
Reply:Thailand has many places to train like that, though they are less than resorts. you can learn Muay Thai from the Thai's. there is a camp that has both Muay Thai and MMA training too, so you can mix it up a bit. have a look:


http://tigermuaythai.com/





it was shown on TV here, and some of our celebrities went to it for a week. looked like a great place to train, if you had the time (and no family/job)
Reply:haha just going to my dojan is a real resort. but i think that would be a great idea. id love to go to a place like that and learn other martial arts. the price would depend on how good the place is.
Reply:Due to the many styles in existance, you would be better off narrowing your scope. Perhaps a tournament training resort for the more popular styles. Maybe something for us older martial artists. Great idea though. I'd do it.
Reply:Hi there





I think its a really great idea. For the novice student you would be on to a winner. But any serious student probably wouldn't attend as most tend to search out masters of their style and make trips to Japan or China to train with them.





I like your idea of integrating other complementary therapies.


Don't forget you could have other treatments such as shiatsu, Rekki, amatsu etc.





You could sell traditional Chinese and Japanese food.





Hope you get it off the ground





Regards





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