u/tunghoy

One of my coaches said the owner of my home studio and a few others that last weekend, he spent a whole evening at one of the others doing a big software upgrade. Said it cost him $100k. I don't know if that includes new networking hardware, but that's still huge. Or maybe it's an older upgrade he put off for a while. Anyone know about this? I haven't been to that other studio since then, so I don't know if there are changes visible to members. Wondering if any OTF person out there knows what this was.

I'm surprised and maybe a little grateful that it took so long, but now it's my studio that's closing. Because of reduced membership in the post-covid years, it hasn't been profitable for a long time. The owner sacrificed a lot of money keeping us open. That's an advantage of ownership by an actual, local person rather than a venture capital group. Be thankful if that's what your studio is. So beginning in June, a bunch of us will transfer our memberships to another (profitable) studio under the same ownership, but—for me—twice the distance. A sad class this morning as we lose the place of a lot of memories.