N.E. Kettlebells/Five Point Kettlebells LLC
Thanks to everyone for calling to ask for additional information. I want to apologize for the delay in my response. It has been a crazy busy week for me and I knew if I just sat down and wrote to everyone I could address everything at once.
Here we go.
CHARTER MEMBERSHIPS and REGULAR MEMBERSHIPS
This is open to anyone! Anyone that pays the first month. Anyone that has trained with me in the past. Anyone with whom I have shared a beer. Anyone. The deal with the charter membership is you retain and stay at $65.00 a month as long as you don’t miss a month. After Dec.1st, if you disappear and come back, the only way to get back down to $65.00 is to buy a three month package. The three month package will include sales tax. All memberships will include sales tax except charter memberships. Additionally, charter memberships will disappear from the payment options. If you are a charter member you are one for the length of your sustaining membership. I will not offer these openly again. The beginning monthly fee scale is as listed below. Fees due the first of each month.
Charter member $65.00
New member $99.00 + tax
Intermediate member $79.00 + tax
Block of 3 months in advance $195.00 + tax
Drop in rate per class $20.00
Payments are made to me either thru the mail or in class. Not attending class is not an excuse for a late payment. I am working on a new website and it will have the ability to take payments on line. PLEASE DO NOT SIGN UP THRU THE COMMUNITY CENTER. If you have, nothing will change. I will get that list and it will apply to the new location with all the rights of membership. IF YOU WANT TO BE A CHARTER MEMBER EMAIL ME AT FIVEPOINTKETTLEBELLS@GMAIL.COM AND SPECIFICALLY SAY “ I WANT TO BE A CHARTER MEMBER”. I will put you on the list.
Checks will be made out to ‘ Five Point Kettlebells ‘
Payments can be mailed to: FPKB, 3150 Pierce St NE, Mpls, MN 55418
I will not keep money on the premises. If paying in cash, please don’t require change or give a partial payment that you may want to apply to the next month. All payments thru the Community Center will be honored during this transition. My new training schedule will apply, not the one listed in the Community Center book.
CLASS SCHEDULE
SUNDAY CLOSED
MONDAY 5:00-6:00 PM
6:15-7:15 PM
TUESDAY (INTERMEDIATE) 6:00-7:00 PM
WEDNESDAY 5:00-6:00 PM
6:15-7:15 PM
THURSDAY CLOSED
FRIDAY 5:00-6:00 PM
SATURDAY 8:30-9:30 AM
Members may attend as many classes in one month as they wish with one exception, Tuesday is invite only. Tuesdays class is not meant to be divisive. I made the mistake of originally calling it an ‘advanced class’. This set off a few alarms and I heard about them. It’s okay. To be fair I didn’t pick my words properly. The intermediate class is not structured or supervised. Think of it as ‘open gym’. You will be able to come in and work on or train whatever you wish. I will be on site to discuss technique. Show some things...whatever. I will be doing my own thing. You need to have a certain level of skill to be safe enough for me to turn you loose in an open gym setting. That means doing snatches with the power coming from the hips. Swings with the power from the hips. Wrists straight. Elbows straight. Hips squared during rows or bear crawls. Back leg straight while doing windmills. See the pattern? Body awareness !! I have been more slack in the past because the training days were much more limited. KB’s are a skill !! The skill must be attained from training. One day a week won’t do it in MOST cases.
Some behavior changes need to be made. The biggest change will be class start time. Now that there are more class offerings start times will be enforced. In the past we had to deal with the limited meeting times available so we needed to be more flexible with start times.This needs to change. HERE’S WHY !! I will teach the first half of the class. The second half hour will be application and beat downs. If you weren’t there for the lesson...how can you apply it? In order for this business to survive I will need to expand membership. New members must see members arriving on time in order to pattern them into a behavior of being on time. They will do what you do. I can’t have people coming and going at their liberty. Well, I take that back, you can leave anytime. ONE EXCEPTION-Intermediate Members may arrive late but please join the class quietly and respectfully. But clearly you can see the importance of having a start time with everyone in the class and no distractions. The fifteen minute transition between classes will be respected and additional visiting after class can take place in the coffee shop or hall way. I don’t want to compete with your voices during the next half of instruction. If your going to stay for the additional class on Mon/Wed (nothing wrong with 2 hours of training) just understand that it will be a close mirror of the previous hour. Beat downs may vary and I will tailor things to those attending at each class for the beat downs. Tuesday training will not start until the third or forth week of December. Please do not attend Tuesdays training unless you have heard from me specifically. Please do not assume open class is available to you. I will contact members individually. Again, the intention is to provide a safe environment for you to train. You must have a safe skill level in all the skills. Not the ones you favor or practice at home. Ask yourself this, are you confident with the movement or do you say ‘I hate’ or ‘I can’t ‘ do these ? That kind of language will not be apart of the Tuesdays open sessions.
FINAL WORD
I am very excited about this venture. Its success will be dependent on the quality of its members. We have a very high quality clientele. KB’s are not for everyone. It’s work. Hard work. No slacking. Look around the class. We are average folk with a forged will undetectable outside of class. A person needs a fair amount of digestive juices just to get thru the training. Our numbers will always be small because this type of training doesn’t reward you with the warm fuzzy other gyms offer. We sweat. We ache. We push beyond our limits. We break barriers. Blow away myths and laugh about it. We earn the right to look at other forms of training and immediately see the faults and errors of their ways. We care for our hands and speak of hand care in ways others don’t need. Why we do this......I don’t know. But we do and we are so much better for it. Now we have warm bells thru the winter. A place to call our own with unlimited potentials. New implements of torture will be added at intervals. This is how we like....dare say, love it without sounding too much like a ‘pain freak’. That being said, I look forward to hitting it hard very soon with a group of people I have grown very fond of AND look forward to “beating” and “being beaten by” more frequently !!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO US !!!
With deep respect~Michael
