Icemanthat's you??Migod, you were a ROCK STAR...
I guess we all were, 24 years ago.... :waah:
You bet, Baby! At 15, I had hair:ultracool
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Icemanthat's you??Migod, you were a ROCK STAR...
I guess we all were, 24 years ago.... :waah:
You bet, Baby! At 15, I had hair:ultracool
That is pretty cool. I think I'll do that, but with Playgirl Magazine, lol.Both GMs Ed & Brenda Sell have been on the cover of TKD Times in the past. I'm sure it hasn't hurt them, but I don't know if it's helped them.
BTW: My avatar is my "cover" from 1983 that I had taken at Six Flags near Chicago. I was a green belt & I felt weird wearing a BB for this picture: like I was doing something wrong.=)
The older magazines were definately better. Less advertising and better content. Lately I have become a little disalusioned with the current magazines whether it is Tae Kwon Do times, Blackbelt, Inside Kung fu, etc. They have lost a certain appeal to someone like me. I hope that changes soon. However I have found multiple niche online newsletters and journals to fill the gap that are more over flowing with content.
(they also cost me about 1/10th as much)
I wonder if they made Chuck pay to be on the cover?
1984 Chuck Norris in the cover, this was a great issue, they just do not make it like this anymore.
I wonder if they made Chuck pay to be on the cover?
Terry said:The older magazines were definately better. Less advertising and better content. Lately I have become a little disalusioned with the current magazines whether it is Tae Kwon Do times, Blackbelt, Inside Kung fu, etc. They have lost a certain appeal to someone like me. I hope that changes soon. However I have found multiple niche online newsletters and journals to fill the gap that are more over flowing with content.
(they also cost me about 1/10th as much)
I agree all adds an no realmeat of the Art anymore.
GuysI've heard the British MA mags, including one called Taekwondo, are much better, along the lines of Brian's original post: less advertising, more content. I'm thinking of doing a subscription to a couple of those just to see... Tez seems to think they're really good.
I wonder if they made Chuck pay to be on the cover?
With the dialogue available here on MT, I think martial arts magazines have lost some of their appeal (as if them leaning more and more toward promotional material hadn't done so enough already).
With the dialogue available here on MT, I think martial arts magazines have lost some of their appeal (as if them leaning more and more toward promotional material hadn't done so enough already).
. The only North American exception to that is Journal of Asian Martial Arts; but that covers so many aspects and so many styles that, once again, you could look over an awful lot of text before coming across something relevant to your intereststhough it is a beautifully produced and authoritative journal, and quite a bargain at the price...
I still remember the day I discovered JAMA. I was actually doing research for an unrelated paper at my university and I came across rows and rows of a peer-reviewed martial art journal-- it was amazing!!! It was also great because I could read them all without paying a cent, and could really go through them and find the information relevant to me. Ahhh the good old days. Another bonus of JAMA is that the back of each issue has the topics of the old issues listed, so if you really wanted to you could go through the list of topics and then order the specific journal you want (I think I spent more time tracking down specific issues than researching that paper!)
Dakin Burdick also did a GREAT history on Hapkido and related arts. IMO, the best I've ever seen.