Latest issue of Irish Fighter?

hypnosisdublin

Does anyone on the board know when the latest issue of Irish Fighter is out? I heard that it was meant to be out last week but haven't seen it in Easons.

Any idea what's in this month's issue?

Cheers

hypnosisdublin

Anyone?

mark.leonard

It should be out this week. 1st of March was the copy date so its probably in the printers today

paddyc

theres an ad in the irish fighter that i must post here i think its the funniest ad i ever seen for any MA in my life... will post the page when i get the mag


paddy

hypnosisdublin

Cheers - thought it should be out this week.

Paddy - tell me more about the ad. What's it advertising and what's so funny about it? One-inch punch? Streetfighter-style energy blasts? You have me curious now!

john kavanagh

i reckon its the one with the pic of paddy weighin about 60kgs....his head's bigger than his torso

paddyc

Hypnosis

tis not slagging off any arts at all it just happens to be a tkd club.... but its nothing to do witht he art... the pic has a lad doing a hand stand with the splits and 2 people either side of him and 2 behind him with tiger claw type hands... I just thought it was the maddest looking ad ever


again i will stress nothing to do with the art..

his head's bigger than his torso

how i long for those days again john maybe one day i'll do a rocky 6 on it

hypnosisdublin

paddyc wrote: »

tis not slagging off any arts at all it just happens to be a tkd club.... but its nothing to do witht he art... the pic has a lad doing a hand stand with the splits and 2 people either side of him and 2 behind him with tiger claw type hands... I just thought it was the maddest looking ad ever

I know that pic!!! It's been in a couple of previous issues. It's almost as if the message is "Join our club and you too can learn how to do a handstand"

pma-ire

to me it says "we have fun at our club"

but it does look a bit silly then that is what they intended i'm sure

Tim_Murphy

It's out, I got it this evening.
It's got an advert in it for the Irish Taekwon-Do Federation-Ireland, I thought such names only existed in the world of dodgeball!

yomchi

Of course Tim thats a mistake, meant to be International, not Irish. As in ITF Ireland.
In fact the mag is riddles with errors and typo's this month.

pma-ire

Jon wrote: »

Of course Tim thats a mistake, meant to be International, not Irish. As in ITF Ireland.
In fact the mag is riddles with errors and typo's this month.

bit of a late rush on this one i think. rob left till very late to hassle me about my article being ready so i guess he was under pressure.

Tim_Murphy

Jon wrote: »

Of course Tim thats a mistake, meant to be International, not Irish. As in ITF Ireland.

Aha! It's funnier the other way though.

In fact the mag is riddles with errors and typo's this month.

lol.

Interesting article by yourself Jon, some interesting thoughts, even if I'm not sure if all of it made sense.

yomchi

Thanks Tim. Some of it was edited and I agree parts of it don't run smoothly as bits were taken out. I think Marks article suffered the same as editing made small parts a bit confusing.
I see you still have your 3rd dan belt

Tim_Murphy

Jon wrote: »

I see you still have your 3rd dan belt

It's still a weight on my shoulders apparently. That was actually Mark's belt but I'm planning to bust out my own one at a TKD competition at the end of the month.:eek: That is if I can find it of course. Have to try and find my nice ITF suit too.

yomchi

Best get the red carpet ready!

Tim_Murphy

LOL. Damn right!:)

It'll be interesting to see if I can actually spar semi contact anymore.
*off to work on my side kicks...

yomchi

don't forget that blitz!

pma-ire

machine-gun sidekicks anyone???

Ger Healy

Hey Tim if you going back sparring TKD then I better get my ref suit ironed:D

john kavanagh

funny thing is that style of 'fighting' (big inverted commas there!) still most popular 'test' of martial arts fighting ability....even amoungst clubs training for THE STREET.....

mmaireland.com

On a lighter note... ...Mark Leonard's article. 100% on the button. Liked it a lot.

Ger Healy

john kavanagh wrote: »

funny thing is that style of 'fighting' (big inverted commas there!) still most popular 'test' of martial arts fighting ability....even amoungst clubs training for THE STREET.....

No way you can't be serious John are you ?

Tim_Murphy

funny thing is that style of 'fighting' (big inverted commas there!) still most popular 'test' of martial arts fighting ability....even amoungst clubs training for THE STREET.....

LOL, old school debate brewing...

I would doubt that TKD style sparring is "still most popular 'test' of martial arts fighting ability", maybe you are talking about points sparring? They are quite different in their own way. Both are probably about as useful on THE STREET of course but that's neither here nor there. Anyway what street fighter wouldn't be impressed by my spinning kick skills? Answer me that!

Roper

Me.


Anyway I saw that ad Paddy was on about for the TKD club and yes, it's gas. It's actually a step up from the one that was there before which just had 3 people in it. This one has 5 people in it doing various TKD poses. I dig it, its funny, and based on their faces, they know it's funny.

What they didn't consider is the pressure is on now to come up with a new ad for the next issue, more spectacular than this one.

FruitLover

Jon wrote: »

In fact the mag is riddles with errors and typo's this month.

Irony?

Roper wrote: »

What they didn't consider is the pressure is on now to come up with a new ad for the next issue, more spectacular than this one.

They need two people doing flying side kicks on either side (shirtless, holding nunchucks), one below (shirtless again, but with a huge tattoo of an eagle wearing a leather jacket riding on a screaming, flaming skull on his chest) in an impressive deep-stanced pose wearing a grimace of concentration (with tiger-claw hands), all set against a portrait of General Choi with an eyepatch and a dagger in his mouth, snapping one ninja's neck while side-kicking another in the throat, while riding a harley.




I'd join!

hypnosisdublin

FruitLover wrote: »

Irony?



They need two people doing flying side kicks on either side (shirtless, holding nunchucks), one below (shirtless again, but with a huge tattoo of an eagle wearing a leather jacket riding on a screaming, flaming skull on his chest) in an impressive deep-stanced pose wearing a grimace of concentration (with tiger-claw hands), all set against a portrait of General Choi with an eyepatch and a dagger in his mouth, snapping one ninja's neck while side-kicking another in the throat, while riding a harley.

A unicorn would be even better........

This TKD club is fast attaining legendary status. We should all head down there together one night for a trial class!

yomchi

Irony?
Not really considering im no editor

mark.leonard

mmaireland.com wrote: »

On a lighter note... ...Mark Leonard's article. 100% on the button. Liked it a lot.

Cheers Shane.

john kavanagh

Tim_Murphy wrote: »

maybe you are talking about points sparring?

yeah points, 'blitz' and 'machine gun sidekicks' were mentioned so reminded me of my pre-seeing-a-ufc-thinking-points-was-bad-ass days

Tim_Murphy

Me.

ya whatever.

yeah points, 'blitz' and 'machine gun sidekicks' were mentioned so reminded me of my pre-seeing-a-ufc-thinking-points-was-bad-ass days

The few times I competed in points it was most fun doing it against guys who thought they were bad ass. Strutting onto the mat chests out.

pma-ire

Tim_Murphy wrote: »

Interesting article by yourself Jon, some interesting thoughts, even if I'm not sure if all of it made sense.

thought mackey had hit the funny sauce before he wrote that article nearly made me cry, but then i stopped laughing so hard and things got better

only kiddin' nice article jon

pma-ire

mmaireland.com wrote: »

On a lighter note... ...Mark Leonard's article. 100% on the button. Liked it a lot.

like this also! i actually fully agree with you on this one mark :eek: