Originally posted by Starchaser107
ok , now I’m all excited and stuff
you should be. you’llg et your 15 minutes of fame too 
Appearing in a tournament review…
Appearing in a tournament review only docks 3 seconds off your 15 minutes of fame. It’s 5 seconds if your name is mentioned - it has yet to be calibrated for forum names. I’m still waiting for some tournament promoter to ask about the forum names…
Re: Appearing in a tournament review…
Originally posted by GeneChing
Appearing in a tournament review only docks 3 seconds off your 15 minutes of fame. It’s 5 seconds if your name is mentioned - it has yet to be calibrated for forum names. I’m still waiting for some tournament promoter to ask about the forum names…
then let me have my 5 SECONDS!!!
I was wondering about that…
If some of these guys are looking at their coverage and being like Who the F@ck is norther pratitioner.
Who the F@ck is norther practitioner?
At 4748 posts and counting, NP gets his face in the mag. After all, that’s a long time to be looking at our website, so he might as well look at himself in our mag…
Hey, someone needs to keep this place flowin’
Originally posted by norther practitioner
Hey, someone needs to keep this place flowin’
that was BL wasnt it?
Originally posted by Starchaser107
pin up girls?
Back in the day I had a Kung Fu Quigong magazine that had a pin-up of Michelle Yeoh in a black PVC cat suit from her James Bond period. So it has happened before.
It is covering one of the many holes in my wall caused by doing full contact-sparring with my brother in a much-to-small space with flimsy plaster walls.
I’m still a waitin’ for the all-karate special.
SimonM
Glad you found a use for that poster. We used to do posters regularly both in our present publication and World of Martial Arts (where we once covered karate :rolleyes: ) but that was back when we were a smaller magazine and saddle-stitched. Now we’re ‘perfect bound’ which is more like how books are bound. Saddle-stitched means that the pages are stapled on top of each other, like horse and saddle, which makes a center poster more feasible. Perfect binding has a spine and it’s a combo of several smaller books bound into a big book, so the concept of a pull-out poster is much more difficult (and costly) to achieve. You’ll just have to patch your wall holes with back issues for now, I’m afraid…
Flags and university poster sales also work well. ;)
holes..
…so does not knocking holes in the walls in the first place. But back OT, I’m a big supported of the concept of kung fu pin ups, as long as they’re done respectfully. Didn’t IKF just do a profiles calendar? What did y’all think of that? Respectful?
Gotta send respect out to the ladies in the martial arts. 
Pin Ups and Proposal.
Well, back in the day you guys seemed to be playing with that idea too. but it didn’t go very far.
I think there was a michelle Kwan, and a few others.
My feeling on the matter is that maybe it wasn’t risque enough. but that might pose a serious problem if the people in charge want the magazine to be taken seriously.
How about an offshoot magazine , that appeals to the younger kung fu practioners and aspirants. And not such a refined mature audience. I don’t know how viable such an idea might be,
But i’m feeling maybe a more popular approach to the mag.
Pop Culture as it relates to martial arts.
Movie reviews
Star interviews
product marketing geared towards teens
Pin up girls (tastefully risque)
more focus on a very Active wushu scene.
In that regard the spotlight can be on up and coming stars , who probably would love the exposure and the chance to be recognized on a broader scale.
There’s barely enough market for what we have…
…back in the day nothing. We’re still playing with the idea. Like I said, I support kung fu pin ups. In fact, if you check out our upcoming issue, Mar Apr 2005, in the beginning of Feb, you’ll see the great lengths that I personally go to, just to keep some pretty women in our magazine. You’ll like it, Starchaser107, it features your girl Lianne.
I’m really tempted to say that if we did a magazine like you describe, we’d be IKF, but I’m not going to do so. That would be unprofessional.
lol,
k.
I almost bought IKF yesterday. I made it as far as the cover and then realized that more articles appeared to be about hollywood actors than about Kung Fu. As this was the second time I had seen this happen this year (unless Halle Berry became a martial artist sometime and I didn’t know ) I think I may just give up on it. When I buy Kung Fu magazines, I want them to be abou Kung Fu; that is why I so constantly praise the quality of your magazine Gene.
Re: Pin Ups and Proposal.
Originally posted by Starchaser107
[B]Well, back in the day you guys seemed to be playing with that idea too. but it didn’t go very far.
I think there was a michelle Kwan, and a few others.
My feeling on the matter is that maybe it wasn’t risque enough. but that might pose a serious problem if the people in charge want the magazine to be taken seriously.
How about an offshoot magazine , that appeals to the younger kung fu practioners and aspirants. And not such a refined mature audience. I don’t know how viable such an idea might be,
But i’m feeling maybe a more popular approach to the mag.
Pop Culture as it relates to martial arts.
Movie reviews
Star interviews
product marketing geared towards teens
Pin up girls (tastefully risque)
more focus on a very Active wushu scene.
In that regard the spotlight can be on up and coming stars , who probably would love the exposure and the chance to be recognized on a broader scale. [/B]
Maxim, FHM, etc. meets kung fu.. too bad it wouldn’t sell.
KF vs. FHM
If you have models like FHM, you don’t need anything more. The Kung Fu would be superfluous.
Thanks for your kind words SimonM - we’ve intentionally moved most all of our film coverage to our e-zine Given that our magazine is bimonthly, it’s hard to time out a cover to hit the newsstands right when a movie hits. Both BB and IKF are based in southern CA, closer to Hollywood, so they have greater access. Don’t get me wrong - I think that covering what’s happening in popular media is extremely important for CMA. Movies, comics, plays, music, any overlap is exciting. But it wasn’t fitting our magazine as well as it was fitting our e-zine. We’ve been getting our movie reviews up just before the US premiere quite regularly - and it’s free access, so please forward the reviews to your friends. It helps us increase our traffic, and that’s always good because it allows us to do more things.
oh boy…
i can’t wait until the new issue comes out!!!
anxiously waiting!
If you’re this excited.. I guess we should all be excited.