While I definately support all of our retail distributors, even though they my censor my face like Master Tu’s iron uglies, I hope that you buy from www.MartialArtsMart.com, since sales from there help support the forum here. If you use any link from our forum, it gets tallied towards our forum and allows us to keep this baby running.
I wonder if I can get on the Howard Stern show now…:rolleyes:
Are you kidding? I would consider an appearence on the Howard Stern show one of the highlights of my career. Especially if I could plug our soon-to-be-released Iron Crotch videos.
As for rights, technically by the strictest letter of the law, they shouldn’t just take our pics, but if they are selling our merchandise, it would be silly for us to crack down on them. They did remove the www.MartialArtsMart.com watermark (can’t say I blame them) and there other pics of ours that keep the faces. I’m just lucky I guess - I must have been a porn star in a past life. We would only crack down on them if they were using our images to sell someone else’s goods (and this has happened, several times in fact.) I would hope that the many good members of our forum would support us and snitch here on sites they might find that use our images without permission or without being one of our retail outlets. It’s that sort of tattle-telling that keeps our forum here strong.
Well, like I said, technically, they are using the pics without permission, but they are also selling our gear. If they sell enough of our gear, they can have the pics. In fact, if they sell an inordinate amount, maybe we’ll always blur the faces It wouldn’t make sense to sue someone for selling our gear, tho. Besides, the first step would be a cease and desist letter, and anyone would be smart enough to take it down before it went to court.
rogue - I once sat in on a class being held by monk Shi Deshan in a local park and that day, there was a prison unit assigned for clean up. It was a lot of orange.
If you like to were orange then either be a Shao-Lin monk or sevre a sentence in American prison?
The monks had it first.
Orange probablly affects the mood (mental state). More serine attitudes. (j/k) Pink and green temporarially blinded the prison guards. They then went to orange :-). Orange you glad they stopped wearing pink and green?
Originally posted by GeneChing Well, like I said, technically, they are using the pics without permission, but they are also selling our gear. If they sell enough of our gear, they can have the pics. In fact, if they sell an inordinate amount, maybe we’ll always blur the faces It wouldn’t make sense to sue someone for selling our gear, tho. Besides, the first step would be a cease and desist letter, and anyone would be smart enough to take it down before it went to court.
I didn’t know they were selling your stuff, too. I must not have read that part the first time. As long as you are making a profit it’s all good.
Originally posted by rogue
[B]Hey Johnny, put some more hip into that punch and get that weight off of your heels.
Hey Gene, the last time I saw a guy wearing an outfit in that color was at the county lock up. [/B]
i should. I m not a kung fu guy more of street type fighting but I tried. I had just come off some training in that pic my hair was short and I lost all my muscle.
Johnny
Actually robes come in many colors. At Shaolin Temple, you’ll see the monks in orange, grey, many off color shades of beige/yellow/saffron, even the occasional white or black. I was married in the Green Dragon Zendo just north of SF, seven years ago to the day, and we wore dark blue initiate robes. When I stayed at the Tibetan Temple at Bodh Gaya where Buddha was enlightened, I wore a maroon robe. That one is still one of my favorites along with a one-of-a-kind black silk one that my Bak Sil Lum master Wing Lam gave me. When I’m at Shaolin, I almost always wear grey since that’s what my monk master, Shi Decheng told me to wear as a layman disciple. But I’ve seen lots of disciples and even non-disciple students wearing orange.
Latley, orange has been the color of choice for the martial monks, perhaps because it is so bright. Same reason prisoners have to wear them in a way. They started out more of a dull orange, which more traditional to Chinese Buddhists, but lately I’ve seen some of the martial disciples wearing a ultra bright neon orange, a real retina burner.
It wouldn’t make sense to sue someone for selling our gear, tho. Besides, the first step would be a cease and desist letter, and anyone would be smart enough to take it down before it went to court.
