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Ace From Outer Space wrote:I worked on mags called Traditional Karate, TKD-KMA (Tae Kwon Do and Korean Martial Arts) and Combat Magazine. All published by a small company in Birmingham.

All rolled into Combat and then disappeared a couple of years ago unfortunately, which is a shame as I thought it was usually a much better read than Martial Arts Illustrated. I read TK from issue 1 until the last issue of Combat, shame it couldn't make enough to survive.

I did Hapkido for 2-3 years about 12 years ago. If must be one of the most comprehensive single disciplines, highly recommended.

Carlos13th wrote:
Assuming Kendo was quite hard on the knees then?

I imagine Iaido was too considering they seem to do a lot of things from a kneeling start.

You don't 'do' kendo on a tatami like the softy sports . A wooden floor - like a dance hall - is better for moving on as you need to 'glide' rather than walk, and all that pushing off the back foot and stomping down the front foot as you make a cut doesn't do much for the knees.

Mine were already shonky due to a motorbike accident when I was a teenager, kendo didn't improve them any. So sadly, it had to go. Toughest game in the world, nearly 20 years man and boy, mutter, etc.

Here's a vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4SHWXQBVL4 Those fuckers are good.

Ace From Outer Space wrote: Combat Magazine.

I used to buy that

Im a master of Lap Goch.

Clarence wrote:

Ace From Outer Space wrote:I worked on mags called Traditional Karate, TKD-KMA (Tae Kwon Do and Korean Martial Arts) and Combat Magazine. All published by a small company in Birmingham.

All rolled into Combat and then disappeared a couple of years ago unfortunately, which is a shame as I thought it was usually a much better read than Martial Arts Illustrated. I read TK from issue 1 until the last issue of Combat, shame it couldn't make enough to survive.

When I worked for them, I was responsible for all of TK and TKD-KMA, and the studio manager did Combat. Had some good times there, even got inducted into the Combat Magazine Hall of Fame for my apparently "tireless efforts in promoting martial arts in the UK..."

I only did it cos they paid me...

I didn't know it had all closed down. I worked for them in the early noughties, from around June /July 2001 for maybe eighteen months or so. People were mad about those magazines.... We used to get punch drunk martial artists phoning us up and demanding stuff, some scarey, some ridiculous. The karateka were the most serious and stentorian, the TKDers always seemed the happiest and the wing chun guys were the loopiest!

There was one Krav Maga instructor who would call me up and try and get me to increase the size of the he ads he had paid for etc, or expect completely impossible design and photoshop work on his ads. It made me laugh, you could literally hear him trying to stare me out down the phone as he told me that he could maim me without me noticing etc.

I don't think he realise how stupid we could make him look.....

Still, I had a good time there, and our editor, Paul Clifton was a really good bloke even if you couldn't trust him farther than you could throw him which wasn't far as he was rather tubby....

aliensurfer wrote:dabbled with Judo and kickboxing but not since I was younger and fitter lol

Same here.

I've mastered Jura, Aberour, Bunnahabhain & Laphroaig

Dags wrote:I've mastered Jura, Aberour, Bunnahabhain & Laphroaig

Jura is deadly. I've often had the shit kicked out of me by Jack Daniels.

And that Johnny Walker is a vicious cunt.