I am curious what I need to start one, in the event I find out there is not one around me. I live in a small area and I have yet to see anything like this. I have done some googling and asked around and most people don't even know what I am talking about lol
Why not? I've started a HEMA-club together with two other people in 2007 and it's still alive, has a constant flow of people (some who stayed from the start, others dropping out, new folk coming in ...) and has a good reputation within the scene. Every club startet out small - it just takes effort to get it going.
I was going to do this myself if I can find people. I feel like something like this, it is hard to find people locally. I will be looking into starting one if I can't travel. My brother owns a gym so maybe I can use one of the rooms there to host it.
YES! What I did was started talking on local online gaming, star wars, and pop culture forums. I found some people in my area (just a few) and we did flyers.
I was considering it myself really. I mean the closest one is a 2 hour drive which sucks. Even if I can start a small one, who knows, it may take off!
No doubt. I think enough people enjoy it enough. I would keep it open to all ages, it is more likely to take off. I think you need some paper work for kids tho, most states do.
Me and some friends used to go to a comic store when we were maybe 13-15 and had to have our parents sign papers just to play Magic the Gathering! LOL
We had one down the street from where I grew up that did all kinds of these things and the man who owned the shop got closed down because he had kids in there on a weekly basis doing tournaments for different games but they were playing for money. He got into a lot of trouble for it from what I remember so having underage kids signing something is the safe thing to do specially because with this you can get hurt.
Have you begun to work on this by chance? I am actually a bit curious myself now seeing as most of these "training" places are more of dance classes lol
I have been reading up on things but I will assume that was meant for the OP... lol I just wanted to share that if you can find a gym or club, or some kind of building that is cleared to have a decent number of people in it at once, you can look into renting a time slot each day.
This is great to see it can be done. I think it would be awesome to help run one. My buddy owns a comic shop and I am so jealous of him haha They hold weekly tournaments there for all kinds of games as well. I know there is a building next to his that is vacant. I might inquire a proposition to him on starting one up together. Not sure how much it is to rent cause it is a large studio. I think it used to be for ballet or something.
