[QUOTE=YiLiQuan1;708002]Whatever, man… Do what you want. Everytime I’ve offered you a suggestion about anything you do your best to be contrary. :rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Like I said, I’ll try it. I still think the garment is too flimsy though.
Gene, is there a moderator discount? Ha ha.
There is a moderator discount…
…it’s a program that we’re still working the bugs out of, sorry to say. We have a discount code that moderators can use, but implementing this has been an issue lately. Now that you’ve reminded me, I’ll push to get it completed.
Is there a troll markup? 
lol
You’re right, CF, there totally should be.
So I was having a discussion with a guy at work last week about the critical thing vs. complaining thing.
Because a lot of time on this board if you say something critical, they think you’re complaining or a troll. Like the uniform thing.
Anyway, I guess I will have to have my own uniforms made, because I can’t find anything suitable pre-made. I did find some suitable fabric this weekend.
I’m still waiting for the MasterKiller discount code.
Gene, why don’t you make “REAL” sparring equipment and market it towards the San Shou/San Da crowd. You could feature some prominent San Shou/San Da fighters in the ads, kinda like what you guys already do with Jenna Castillo.
I’d love too…
…but looking at our market research, it’s just not profitable enough at this time, sad to say. That market is small and cornered. Right now, sanda is small and niche; it just can’t generate the numbers to warrant us developing our own line at this time. A few years ago, I was working hard to try to import China-made equipment at the request of some Sanda people. I had it all set up and we could have done it quite easily, but frankly, there wasn’t enough players at that time that could justify our expense. It’s sort of like when we used to carry Shuai Chiao jackets. They just didn’t sell enough for us to make it worth our investment. Most of the people active in it simply got there stuff directly from China. So inevitably, we had to close out the line.
That being said, I truly hope that the sport grows so we can offer such equipment in the future. I haven’t given up there.
As for Jenna, she’s very easy to work with and comes by with homemade brownies and such. In fact, she was by just last week to thank us for inviting her to our Fearless screening. I’ve extended open invitations to many of the local sanda people to come by for modelling. Some of the coaches are very possessive and controlling, but perhaps that’s par for the course for a good coach.
Anyway, keep you fingers crossed. Hopefully sanda will gain in popularity here in America. Once there’s a fair sized market, we’ll be able to do all sorts of stuff with it.
ironing your uniform, haw (snort)
i always thought it would be fun to strap up with one of those tkd chest protectors and kick each other 100% jst to see what it’s like…
the xia, is that James Hong in your avatar??
[QUOTE=bodhitree;705873]I recently ordered new sparring gear, it was cheaper than any other place I could find for shin guards, headgear, handwraps, and everything else. Good job guys.[/QUOTE]notice how it rythmes with wal-mart… cheap is right. people have got to snap out of this cookie-cutter mentality.
Judogi
[QUOTE=GeneChing;705964]In America, TKD provides the bulk of the income for all of the large MA companies. If you’ve been thinking that CMA has a major purchase hold on the economy of American MA, wake up and smell the coffee…or tea…or whatever it is you drink to wake up. There are three main moneymakers in martial arts: TKD, nunchuks and ninjas. CMA is pretty far down on the list, sad to day. It’s a difficult market. There are so many variations of CMA that it’s hard to sell gear that meets everyone’s needs. For example, just look at uniforms. MartialArtsMart offers a fair selection of CMA uniforms, but there are tons of different styles that we have yet to offer, or have discontinued. A classic example is the Shuai Chiao uniform - we were one of the first American companies to offer it, but we had to discontinue it because it wasn’t selling enough to justify keeping it on our shelves. TKD, on the other hand, is standard and simple, so if anything, we’re always trying to expand the line of TKD uniforms by making stuff up. Such is the nature of martial arts in America.
But contrast that with the fact that we used to have a TKD magazine called Dojang. It only ran 8 issues until it proved to be not viable. Then we merged it with our Japanese based mag, Dojo, to form World of Martial Arts. In 1999, we abandoned that and just focused on Kung Fu Tai Chi. Why? CMA has the richest history. KMA and JMA trace their lineage back to China. And China has one of the longest recorded histories and accordingly, one of the most complex cultures in the world. In eight issues, we pretty much tapped the sum of TKD history. In over 90 issues, we’ve barely even scratched the surface of CMA.[/QUOTE]
I got my judogi from Martialarts mart back in 2000. I wore it to judo 3 days a week for a year, rolled in it, at class and outside at home. When it got grass and dirt stains on the knees, I bleached it. I wore the pants to bed, and to early gong fu classes. I wore them on the street even.
They ripped a little at the seem this year, and ended up splitting all the way to the thigh. I wanted to sew them, but my wife threw them away.
8 years, of sometimes daily, and at most every three day use. Thousands of washes.
You can’t beat that.
I’ve only bought things I couldn’t get at MAM from elsewhere. I will even wait for items to come back in stock before I buy them anywhere else, and if people bring up other spots, I make them feel stupid, until they all cowtow and buy only from MAM
I’m grateful for the years of good old fashioned honest service, quality stuff and fair prices. 
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