Martial Arts Blog The Martial Edge Editorial Blog June 22
General site news
There is some great new material on the site this week including Lesley Jacksons first part of The Rise and Rise of the Female Action Hero -
We also have a new contributor to Martial Edge, John Clements who is the Director of the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts. ARMA was established in 1992 to re-establish the concepts of Western Martial Arts such as fencing and sword play derived from rare medieval manuscripts. It is interesting stuff and so we will be showcasing articles and editorials from ARMA on the Martial Edge site throughout the year.
We also have some interesting material in the pipeline including interviews with traditional martial arts instructor Iain Abernethy and the stunt team behind the upcoming Batman sequel The Dark Knight so make sure you keep logging on!
As I have said before I think the Martial Arts Forums on the site is a great place to be. I am confident that anyone from beginners to martial arts teachers with 40 years of experience can post on a topic and have a response within the hour! Also thanks for keeping an eye out for SPAM. Although a member of the team is online at anyone point during the day obviously it is not humanly possible (boy, do we try though) to be online 24/7. Clearly silly messages about wondrous offers have no place on the forums. That said if it does appear to be a genuine attempt to have some feedback then by all means we encourage this - and often it can provide some amusement.
Also just one word on house keeping - this doesn’t apply to 99% of the people that use the forums but please bear in mind the rules of no personal attacks and no profanity respectively. Jason received a couple of emails last week flagging this and to be honest as much as we encourage no holds barred discussion there isn’t a place for either of It on the forums.
That said its all growing nicely with the site receiving on average a 1000 hits a day now and around 1-2 new members joining. Still some way off creating the world’s largest martial arts community but I feel confident in saying that the foundations have been set to really grow massively over the next 12 months.
The technical side of the site is now pretty much complete in this area now. At the moment the team are on with the task of uploading all of the product information and images etc. We have product testing scheduled for the end of the July with a firm launch date of 01 August. Throughout this time I will keep you posted on development.
Kung Fu Panda Event
Thursday night is the exclusive showing of Kung Fu Panda at the IMAX cinema and the lucky winners of the Martial Edge competition along with the team will be in attendance. At the weekend I will get the images and review of the event online.
Pete Mills
Senior Editor/Co-Founder
The Worlds Largest Online Martial Arts Community
:P find it quite amusing they chose Taekwondo as the demonstration for a film featuring different styles of Kung Fu. Still i guess to most non martial art people Martial arts is Martial Arts :)