Guest Instructors

Individual clubs can invite guest instructors throughout the year to improve their technical, sport and traditional karate foundation.  The CZWKA policy regarding guest instructors is as follows:

Visiting instructor expectations:

• Professional Instructor, minimum 5th Dan: Travel, accommodation, meals and $300 per day honorarium including travel days when they would otherwise be at their own dojo.
   
• Amateur instructor, minimum 5th Dan: Travel, accommodation, meals and $250 per day honorarium not including travel days.
   
• Amateur instructor 4th Dan: Travel, accommodation, meals and $150 per day honorarium not including travel days.
   
• Air travel will be economy. Where food is not provided on the plane, a maximum of $30 will be provided per travel day for food and beverages.
   
• Honoraria and any food expense reimbursement will be paid on the last day of teaching.
   

When visiting instructors depart the dojo for the last time, they should be handed their honorarium in an envelope. They should not wait for a cheque to arrive in the mail or feel obliged to ask what and when they might be paid. Everyone feels uncomfortable with this.

Instructors may be accompanied by family members or students but must bear all associated costs of such and must understand that the only priority (of the visiting instructor) is the dojo they are being paid to visit and not personal plans.

* Host expectations Visiting instructors can teach on the day of their arrival, and for a maximum of 6 hours on each of the following days. Visiting instructors can be billeted at private homes instead of hotels unless they are from a foreign country, aged, or accompanied by family members or students. The host is not responsible for any expenses whatsoever associated with family members or students who accompany the visiting instructor.

* Dojos in dire financial need can ask for a subsidy from CZ to help offset costs when the airfare is over $600**. CZ can pay for an airfare up front and reclaim the costs from the dojo after the seminar if an instructor is from outside of Canada.

Notes

* Visiting instructors occasionally bring wives or students, particularly from Japan. The host dojo is under no obligation to accommodate the costs or needs of a non-participating family member who accompanies a visiting instructor unless the host dojo specifically invites such persons.  Japanese instructors often have students who come along for the ride.  It is a courtesy not to charge them for training, but it is not necessary to pay in any way for their visit to Canada as the host did not invite them.

**To fly from Seattle or Vancouver to Fredericton is almost as expensive as flying from Tokyo to Vancouver. We must consider the regional financial burdens involved in maintaining technical standards.

These guidelines are currently effective and are subject to change only after review by the B.O.D.