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Facebook free book give-away
Posted by: | CommentsI’ve been on Facebook for a while now and enjoy the medium a lot. It’s really practical for staying in touch with people or just dropping them a quick word, especially family and friends. My biggest problem turned out to be the number of people I befriended and it became hard to seperate my martial arts training/interests, new friends from my family and long-time friends.
So I decided to un-friend many of the new people I’ve met, keep only close friends and family and make a special page for everybody else. If you want to stay in touch, just click the “Like” button on my new page here. The old personal page will still exist but I will be more private. Despite rumors to the contrary, I do have a personal life…
To make it worth your while:
If join me on the page I’ll give away a free copy of my Hardcore Heavy Bag Training book to a random person when we reach 1.000 followers. Obviously, there will be more prizes and discounts specific to Facebook, so hop on board and invite some like minded people. 
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Comments policy: Meet the Lord of the Land
Posted by: | CommentsSince my post on Penn & Teller’s PENN & TELLER: BULLSHIT! “Martial Arts” TV show, there has been an increase of comments here on my blog. Most were about that post, some were about older ones. That’s all good, I appreciate the feedback. It’s one of the coolest things about blogging: people from all over the world interact with you.
Some of you just drop a line, others give a detailed explanation of what they’re thinking. Regardless, I enjoy talking to you about the things I’m passionate about or interested in. So let’s make it perfectly clear: Feel free to comment as much as you like! However, there are a few things you have to understand:
- Every comment is read and approved by me. It’s more time consuming than automatically approving comments but it helps keep spam down and it allows me to talk to you. Which is the whole point of comments anyway so I plan on keeping things like this.
- I get plenty of email. Mail that takes up time. My time is limited and I don’t want to waste any more if it than I absolutely have to.
Why do I mention this?
Keep this in mind when you comment here.
Because the Penn & Teller post generated a ton of reactions, but only a fraction were approved. Why? There are many reasons, here’s a short list: Read More→
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Contest winner
Posted by: | CommentsA while ago I held a contest to win Loren Christensen’s Solo Training DVD. I totally forgot to announce the winner. My apologies for that. So: Belated, but no less sincere, congratulations to Shirley Keith!
Congrats to Shirley Keith on winning a copy of Solo Training by Loren Christensen.
I you also want a chance to win prizes (and get a bunch of free stuff), just sign up for a free membership account at my site right here.
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Reviews; the people have spoken
Posted by: | CommentsA while ago I asked what kind of reviews of martial arts books and videos you prefer to see here on my blog. The votes in the poll were very clear: 59% of you want to see both written and video reviews. So I guess I’ll be taking out my camcorder more often then…
I’m not sure yet how I’ll do it: alternate between written and video reviews or do both at the same time. It’ll probably depend on how much time I have available. I’ll figure it out eventually.
Thanks for all your feedback!
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Leg kick and stock sale update
Posted by: | CommentsAfter I shot the footage for my leg kick video last month, I got a bad surprise: the footage was OK, but not of good enough quality for a video production. So I had to re-shoot everything. Yesterday, I finished the first part of the shoot. I just took a quick look and it looks like this time it’ll be OK. Tonight, during class, I’ll shoot some more material and then I can start editing again. With a bit of luck, the video should be ready for release in a few weeks. Fingers crossed…
Here’s a sneak peek from the raw footage:
Another update:
The stock sale I started a while ago is going pretty good and a few items are now sold out. As of right now, Timing in the fighting Arts and Combat Sanshou, the complete series are sold out. You can obviously still get them from my publisher but not at the same prices I was selling them.
Some of my other books and videos are still available at a reduced price and with free, world-wide shipping: Just go to this page and add them to your shopping cart. The same thing applies as before: gone = gone.
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