Kung Fury: Contemporary Debates in Martial Arts Cinema – Conference write-up

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“In the media-congested world of YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix and other digital platforms, it is perhaps surprising that Kung Fury, a 30-minute martial arts action comedy short which pays tribute to the culture of the 1980s, could have raised $630,000 via Kickstarter, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, and attracted more than 13 millions views of its trailer […]”

How to create the perfect martial arts club website – Interview with Matthew Apsokardu of The Ikigai Way

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Several readers have been in touch after seeing the graphic: How to Market your Dojo to Women, asking for general advice on what a good martial arts club website actually looks like. Not being an expert myself, I reached out to Matthew Apsokardu of the Ikigai Way blog. Matthew is a top martial arts blogger and published author; and his expertise also spans website design, marketing and martial arts club operation. So who better to ask for some insights into how martial artists can use the web to their advantage . . .

The (Martial) Art of Good Men

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So far on this blog, I’ve focused a lot on women’s participation and experience in the martial arts. This post however is for a site called The Good Men Project, which is “an international conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century”.

To me it’s a no-brainer – if you want to know about “good men”, just look inside many dojos. So this is the article I wrote for them, basically saying just that . . .