Its been a busy week.

Again.

But before I get into the details the team would like to make the following announcement:

The Martial Edge website now receives around a 1000 unique visitors every day.

Sure its not there in the millions yet but we decided to share that with you because there is a growing community developing now from Lebanon to Los Angeles which excites the Martial Edge team a great deal. Of course if you consider the millions of people all across the world who practice some sort of martial art or have an appreciation at the very least this number is insignificant in the grand scheme of where we want Martial Edge to be. However, it is a landmark we set out to achieve and if we keep improving on what we are doing it will only increase the numbers who visit and use the site on a regular basis.

Achieving this is down to four key factors and please note not mutually exclusive.

1. You guys who get stuck into the debates in the martial arts forums and of course the lurkers who move silently through the site.

2. International Authors who contribute articles, interviews and reviews -which subsequently attracts more people to the site.

3. A great team behind Martial Edge who are working tirelessly behind the scenes.

4. An amazing website that allows for profile pages, regular content, forums, schools/club directories, video, audio and soon a range of 600 martial arts products.

But as I say every week keep spreading the word to fellow students and instructors as that is one of the key ways we will continue to grow the Martial Edge community.

New Articles Layout Page

On a more general note I wanted to keep you informed with what is going on with the new articles layout. Its got that hint of work in progress but I can assure that behind the scenes the team are working furiously to get this section up to speed and finished. As some of you may well have noticed the levels of interaction vary on article to article -something over the next four weeks we aim to totally bring up to speed and have every article at the right level. By this im talking about images, video, audio and of course elements such as the author profiles and related article boxes. So pardon the construction work because in a few weeks the site will be all set to take on the world of martial arts.

As usual you can catch me or any member of the Martial Edge Team in the Forums.

Pete Mills

Senior Editor/Co-Founder

The Worlds Largest Online Martial Arts Community