Kung Fu Magazine rated #5 on FHM's 50 Most Absurd Moments in Rock

[GeneChing]

Check out the NOV 2003 issue of FHM (Halle Berry on cover) and you'll find our May June 2003 issue (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=318) listed on page 120. They think Lou looks "utterly ridiculous wielding a samurai sword." Samurai sword indeed. This is a samurai sword. (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/351070.html) Lou used our Dragon Well sword (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/455x53.html). :p

So far, we've only received two letters complaining about Lou Reed on the cover (we published them in our SO (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/kf200118.html) & ND 2003 (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/kf200119.html) issues.) We expected there would be a few, but in terms of bringing more spotlight to CMA, covering Reed has far exceeded our expectations already. FHM coverage - yeah baby - if only I can borrow some of their models for our got qi? girls (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/tshirgotqi99.html). BTW, have you seen our new got qi? long sleeves, (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/99mals361.html) mug, (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/99mamug36.html) sweats (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/99mast36.html) and hoody? (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/99mals36.html) Get yours now before Halle Berry does! ;)

[Starchaser107]

Halle can get mine anytime.

[@PLUGO]

Halle Could USE (http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003450546,00.jpg) a better shirt...

[Chang Style Novice]

That doesn't even look like Halle Berry.

[rubthebuddha]

That doesn't even look like Halle Berry. it's not. it's oso in guise.

regardless, it's fhm -- an industry-specific publication. what's its industry? men who can't figure things out for themselves. if a dude can't figure out how to dress well, a magazine won't help. if a dude can't figure out how to please a woman, he's not going to learn froma magazine (maybe he should ask ... the woman he's with?) and if he can't get a woman, a magazine won't help unless he needs stroke material -- and there are more industry-specific magazines for that.

anyhoo, props to kfm for the recognition -- and for showing what kind of ass puppets work for fhm. :D

[David Jamieson]

fhm ranks as one of the top 5 absurd mags anyway.
just below ikf :D

[GeneChing]

When I picked up the issue yesterday, our publisher Gigi said she'd never even heard of FHM. I replied, of course not, you're not a guy. Now our office is littered with magazines, ours, our competitors, chinese mags, the last issue of Entertainment Weekly (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=25792), all sorts of mags, you name it. Now that FHM is in the pile, every single guy who comes in here picks that one up. They leaf through it for quite a while until we tell them about the FHM feature. They are always amused, but are soon distracted back into the rest of FHM. What can I say? Guys will be guys and what guy won't be distracted in an issue of FHM.

FWIW, I'm very pleased about FHM's coverage. Anytime CMA can penetrate the mainstream, that's a good thing. Especially if that penetration is coutesy of KFM. And maybe, just maybe, some of the FHM babes will realize that they should come by our office and we'd be more than happy to shoot them in our got qi? shirt. Halle, you listening to me?

BTW, anyone know who's doing the choreography for catwoman?

[PHILBERT]

Hello Margie! :D And 4 ear rings I see.

[Kristoffer]

Catwoman movie will suck if that's the costume. And wtf have they done to Halle, painted her white??!! Seriously she looks white, this pic freaks me out
:eek:

[Chang Style Novice]

Once again - that AIN'T Halle Berry. No freakin' way.

[Kristoffer]

looks like she's doin a Jackson......


spooky

[chen zhen]

if thats Halle Berry, then im John Bolton:rolleyes:

but anyways, Halle always looked white;)

[Kristoffer]

HA HA HA HA HA

[GeneChing]

Well, they probably wouldn't have given her that Oscar if she looked too black. :rolleyes: Still, slap a 'got qi?' shirt on her and we'll put her on the cover. Nothing would catapult CMA into the public eye better if some women like Halle started promoting it for a better body. Look at what Madonna did for Yoga. I keep hoping that one of these Kill Bill/Charlie's Angels/Alias femme fatales will jump the bandwagon and espouse the training for more than just movie stunts. Anything to bring more hotties to Kung Fu is a good thing.

[norther practitioner]

Anything to bring more hotties to Kung Fu is a good thing.
Gene just clubbed correct in the head and brought it back to the cave...:D

[MasterKiller]

That Madonna campaign for comic books really attracted a lot of chicks to the genre.....:rolleyes:

[Shaolin-Do]

D@mn. enpee said it before I could.
:)

I could care less if thats halle berry, its a hottie for sure. :eek:
You arrange some Got Qi? mud wrestling and you'll steal oso's current spot as my hero gene.
:eek:

:D

[norther practitioner]

That Madonna campaign for comic books

The only place I actually saw that though was here, when DS posted it up... so, it prob. would do more if they expanded the marketing... Where-as Halle on the cover of any mag in the bookstore will sell more of that mag.

[hasayfu]

Good coverage si-hing. Keep those clubs swinging.

I guess I'll have to pick up a copy of FHM... uh, for the articles.

You bring up a good point. Can't you swing something with all female actresses doing MA stunt work or something? Can't you find one that does Tai Chi or something?

[@PLUGO]

Speaking of Chicks in comics (http://www.the-pantheon.net/wir/) ... :rolleyes:

and yeah that is supposed to be Halle as CATWOMAN (http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2003480388,00.jpg) .... Brrrrr...

[David Jamieson]

ok, personally? I think that Mk is showing that he is master of teh "inside joke" with his new avatar. bwahahahaha.

Gene, you should punch him in the throat. :D

[GeneChing]

Yeah, I'm saving my special "cut that makes the sound of the wind" for him. I gotta admit, that's a fair shot. As we used to say in fencing, "bon touche, mon ami."

Actually, there has been a growing movement of fighting femme fatales lately - is it fall out from CTHD? Buffy's revenge? I don't know. It's probably more a result of, dare I say it? Tae Bo. But stuff like Kill Bill, Charlie's Angels, Alias, it's a good thing.

Would we put that on the cover? In all seriousness, women don't do well for our covers on the newsstand. We did one female cover recently, Helen Liang on our Jul Aug 2003 (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/kf200117.html), but Helen is exceptional. Her liu he ba fa (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/tclh001.html) and snake fist (http://store.yahoo.com/martialartsmart/vidsnakfisem.html) videos sell amazingly well, so after much discussion, we thought we'd give another woman cover a try. So far, sales reports have been good for that issue (it takes almost a year to close sales reports in the magazine industry).

Now I was picking on Halle because she was on the cover of FHM. And I pick on Madonna because of how she became attached to the yoga industry. I mean, that old band I used to work for, the Grateful Dead were into yoga for years, but they didn't have the kind of impact as Madonna. She's on Oprah talking about yoga. So her connection to Yoga is largely symbolic of an amazing pop culture movement for that ancient discipline. It would be great if the same thing happened to CMa. Of course, all of us traditionalists would have to bite our lips at the ridiculous media/advertising simplification of CMA, just as the yoga community has done, but on the whole, I don't see those old yoga masters complaining too much about more income.

We did have a shot at putting Charlie's Angels on the cover. We decided against it. I was on the fence for that one. It would have been fun to experiment like that, but at the time I was pushing to move our direction in a more traditional course (still am) so I let the others decide. In retrospect, there was so many Charlie's Angels mag covers, that we would have got lost in the newsstands anyway.

In general, we've moved our media coverage to our online magazine. The other American martial arts magazines are based in southern California, so they have an advantage in that department. Besides, it just works better for us on the ezine (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/index.php) because we can go live right when the movie opens and not worry about printing time - you realize we have like 150 articles archived there now? But on the whole, we have been avoiding celebrities on our covers, mostly because of reader's requests. Plus you all get enough of that with the other mags.

Lou Reed was exceptional, as this thread and the Entertainment Weekly thread above proves. If you know Reed, you know why. If you don't know Reed, tune in, turn on (http://www.loureed.org/new/index_lou.html)