MartialTalk News Volume 4 Issue 1

Bob Hubbard

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We are sending out this newsletter to update all of our registered members on what’s new and possibly of interest to you in regards to MartialTalk. This consolidated several recent announcements into 1 email for your convenience. In the event that you recieve more than 1 copy, please let us know so that we can fix the problem.


Welcome everyone to the great year 2006!
(Well, for those of us on the Gregorian calendar
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We have a most excellent year ahead of us.

MT Magazine ReLoaded
This month sees the reimagining of our old e-zine as an ongoing members submitted article library. We are looking for martial arts related items, such as interviews, history, techniques, and reviews. Everyone is welcome to submit.
Submission instructions are available at http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29620.

Special Offer to MartialTalk Members from The Great Lakes Self-Defense Association
The Great Lakes Self-Defense Association (GLSDA) is offering free memberships to all registered MartialTalk members until 1-31-06. The GLSDA is a regional organization dedicated to the self-defense needs of
the public, law enforcement and military through education, litigation and
legislative activism.
Full details are available at http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28724

MartialTalk sets new traffic record!
Despite the hectic nature of the holiday season, MartialTalk set a new record for traffic in December. Our busiest month since our opening August 2001, we moved over 170 Gigabytes of data! That equals almost 2 Million pages in a single month. Way to go everyone! (Full stats will be up shortly at the SCN stats page)

Contest Winners Announced:
November 2005:
Best Avatar
Winner: upnorthkyosa
Prize: 1 Year Supporting Membership - was given to UpNorthMum

December 2005:
Most Helpful Thread
Winner: GoldenDragon7 for his thread "Q and A" in the kenpo section
Prize: 1 Year Supporting Membership Awarded to winner and Arnisador for suggesting the winning thread.

2005 a Year of expansion!
2005 saw the launch of 2 sibling websites. Early 2005 saw the launch of KenpoTalk.com, a community and resource site focusing on the kenpo and kempo communities. Late October 2005 saw the launch of FMATalk.com, a site for the discussion of the Filipino arts and culture. Both sites are growing at a good clip and 2006 looks to be a promising one of growth and expansion for them both.

Video Library Continues to grow!
The MartialTalk video library grew to over 60 clips and links to offsite clips in 2005. We are optimistic that in 2006 we will top 200 clips.

MartialTalk Project Launched
In 2001 MartialTalk.com was launched with the goal of being a place for people in WNY to chat about the arts, and fine schools and teachers. It has long since surpassed that simply goal. Now, approaching our 5th year, I am reminded of another 5 year mission. To celebrate this, I am proud to announce the "MartialTalk Project".
What is it?
The "MartialTalk Project" is an extension and consolidation of several of our projects, combined with several new and exciting ones under 1 heading. Our goal, is to be a community driven and supported project for the continued archiving, expansion, understanding and training of the martial arts. In it's opening stages, it is little more than an idea, and an ideal. Over time, it will grow and shine. http://martialtalk.net

The MartialTalk Online Martial Arts Encyclopedia Project Launched
The MTOMAE is an open, community driven attempt to develop an encyclopedia of the martial arts. We are taking a similar direction as the Wikipedia project, with a few minor differences. The most notable difference is that we require registration to edit entries. We intend to use very similar guidelines for our content and editing policies as theirs, so you will often find yourself referred back to there for tips, rules and "howtos".
The goal is to create a a growing resource, written from the "Neutral point of view", which is a neutral description of facts, often preferred in journalistic writing.
http://martialtalk.net/wiki

MartialTalk Brand WebHosting
MartialTalk offers webhosting.
75MB of storage with 5GB monthly data transfer.
Only $120 per year, with free setup.
This is a full-featured package, with no pop-ups.
Full details of the hosting plan can be found here: http://martialtalk.com/forum/webhosting.htm

Premium Advertiser:
We would like to thank KarateDepot.com for their support. Please, if you are looking for quality martial arts supplies at great prices, please click on the links at the top of our forum on the KarateDepot.com banner.

MartialTalk Network News:

KenpoTalk.com now has over 300 members, 1,000 topics and is fast approaching it's 10,000th post. Join us this February when we celebrate our 1 year anniversary exploring the arts of Kenpo and Kempo.

FMATalk.com is growing fast as an active community for the Filipino martial arts. Just a little over 3 months old, we're growing at a good rate, and aiming to become the place for the FMA on the web.

MartialTalk SummerCamp 2006:
MartialTalk will soon be announcing the date and location for it's 2006 Meet and Greet. Now entering it's 3rd year, the MT M&G is a great place to meet up with your fellow MTers, swap ideas and get a taste of a wide variety of arts. Watch the Admin Announcements forum for more details!


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To all of our members who continue to make MartialTalk a success, and one of the finest destinations for the martial artist on the internet, thank you! We wish you and yours a happy new year, and hope that 2006 is a great year for you.

- Bob, Mike, Michael, Rich, Tess and all of us here at MartialTalk.com


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