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Cool! With this organized and launched, I'll be doing an overhaul of the videos this week (finally). 
The MartialTalk Project.
- Thread starter Bob Hubbard
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Nope. Right now, the main change I'll be working on is transfering our video library to MT.net to offload a little of the site traffic. Thats about it for the moment.
Flatlander
Grandmaster
I have to admit here that being a contributing member of the Martial Talk community for just over the last year and a half has been a really rewarding experience. There are so many threads to read, many of which are jam packed with interesting ideas and useful discussion on both Martial art information, as well as other not art related but otherwise interesting and stimulating discussion.
An interesting thing happened to me this past week while on vacation in Cuba. I met a local fellow, about 8 years older than me. He worked at the resort in security. I was referred to him by another person in our group who had been to this resort before, for the purpose of organizing a private tour to visit, and explore old Havana (which was super groovy, by the way). In our discussion, we ended up discussing martial arts and discovering that we were both involved in them. By coincidence, he had a cab driver friend visiting at the time, and he also was interested and studying the arts. They both were both of a higher rank than me. One had studied some type of Karate, and now studied and taught Tai Chi Chuan, and the other had studied something Korean that involved "Kook Sul", with which I am largely unfamiliar.
It was an intriguing discussion. The one guy had pretty good, but heavily accented English, but had to translate most of the dialogue between me and the other guy. It was neat to see how much we had in common.
The cool part was that the guy who didn't speak english was really into the idea of JKD, though hadn't had the opportunity to work with a JKD'er. Unfortunately, he didn't have access to any of Bruce's or anyone else's books on the subject. He had heard of Dan Inosanto, though. So, through the translator, I tried to explain to him as best as I could, over the course of about 15 minutes, of what I know.
The rest of the time was spent discussing with the English speaking guy and myself had in common in terms of overarching philosophical themes regarding reality and the the way things are. It was surprising how much stuff we thought the same about.
Sadly, neither of these fellows has access to the internet. It is my belief that, as the rest of the globe catches up, and, continues to change in economic status and further develops their infrastructure, the more people will be connected to the net. This community will, over time, continue to grow and prosper, as more of us with similar, and different, points of view come together to comingle with others of like mindedness, sharing our ideas and learning from one another.
The weather in Cuba, by the way, was fairly nice, save for a couple of days of cloud and cool ocean breeze, which called for a sweater at night.
An interesting thing happened to me this past week while on vacation in Cuba. I met a local fellow, about 8 years older than me. He worked at the resort in security. I was referred to him by another person in our group who had been to this resort before, for the purpose of organizing a private tour to visit, and explore old Havana (which was super groovy, by the way). In our discussion, we ended up discussing martial arts and discovering that we were both involved in them. By coincidence, he had a cab driver friend visiting at the time, and he also was interested and studying the arts. They both were both of a higher rank than me. One had studied some type of Karate, and now studied and taught Tai Chi Chuan, and the other had studied something Korean that involved "Kook Sul", with which I am largely unfamiliar.
It was an intriguing discussion. The one guy had pretty good, but heavily accented English, but had to translate most of the dialogue between me and the other guy. It was neat to see how much we had in common.
The cool part was that the guy who didn't speak english was really into the idea of JKD, though hadn't had the opportunity to work with a JKD'er. Unfortunately, he didn't have access to any of Bruce's or anyone else's books on the subject. He had heard of Dan Inosanto, though. So, through the translator, I tried to explain to him as best as I could, over the course of about 15 minutes, of what I know.
The rest of the time was spent discussing with the English speaking guy and myself had in common in terms of overarching philosophical themes regarding reality and the the way things are. It was surprising how much stuff we thought the same about.
Sadly, neither of these fellows has access to the internet. It is my belief that, as the rest of the globe catches up, and, continues to change in economic status and further develops their infrastructure, the more people will be connected to the net. This community will, over time, continue to grow and prosper, as more of us with similar, and different, points of view come together to comingle with others of like mindedness, sharing our ideas and learning from one another.
The weather in Cuba, by the way, was fairly nice, save for a couple of days of cloud and cool ocean breeze, which called for a sweater at night.
That's great! Thanks for sharing this story.
Probably Kuk Sul Won. It's much like Hwa Rang Do, though both groups would strenuously deny this.
Flatlander said:
Probably Kuk Sul Won. It's much like Hwa Rang Do, though both groups would strenuously deny this.
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Theres some stuff in motion, though it'll be a bit.
BlueDragon1981
Brown Belt
Cool...once i get some projects cleared up....(school and such) I'm sure i will be a regular contributer....
Bob Hubbard said:Alot of people think of MartialTalk as "just a forum". It is a forum, that's true, and a successful one at that. But, my vision is to be much more than that. We've branched out and diversified, and my idea is to continue to do that. To evolve and expand our offerings with our members help.
We are looking for everything.
We need videos for the video library, articles for the magazine, interviews, technique write ups, history, profiles of well known and notable martial artists, and more.
We need entries for the encyclopedia, covering all of the above and more. Everyone is welcome to participate, in fact, we want you to do so.
MartialTalk has forced me to reimagine my vision for the site each year since we started. This time, I let my imagination run wild, and the best part is, there is room for everyones visions as well. Spread the word, and bring in the historians, the researchers, the movers and the shakers. We have room for so much, and all we lack is the thoughts and ideas of everyone here.
Lets see just how big we can get in 2006!
Whoooooo!
I just saw the MT Encyclopedia and it is cool!
Great work! :asian: I think it will become, if we all pitch in, of course, a great network resource and do for MA what mainstream Wiki can't - provide a well moderated repository of accurate MA knowledge. The front artwork is great as well.
http://www.martialtalk.net/wiki/index.php/Tae_Kwon_Do
Just added a paragraph myself! This is neat!
My addition:
"Major Tae Kwon Do organizations include the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, The International Tae Kwon Do Federation and the American Tae Kwon Do Association. However, a large segment of the Tae Kwon Do community consists of independent, non-affiliated schools."
Just added a paragraph myself! This is neat!
My addition:
"Major Tae Kwon Do organizations include the World Tae Kwon Do Federation, The International Tae Kwon Do Federation and the American Tae Kwon Do Association. However, a large segment of the Tae Kwon Do community consists of independent, non-affiliated schools."
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