How fitting PangQuan, how fitting...
What can I say? I didn't ask to be quoted. In fact, I didn't even know about it until I read the article. I'm pretty amused by it though. The whole Klingon thing was a great prank on the martial world - the author might have been serious, but my involvement certainly was tongue-in-cheek, and to see IKF cover it as a serious article, well, it makes me happy.
BTW, I just got the March 2005 BB and there's an article by McNeil - it's his coverage of the 2002 Taiwan Martial Arts Media Tour - the same event that Gigi covered in our magazine way back in in our MAR APR 2003 issue. You'll even see two of the exact same shots (from the slightly different angle of Gigi's camera vs. McNeil's camera) - compare the photos of Masters Adam Hsu and Chen Chin-ti. To BB's credit, they're full color now, the first MA mag to be able to afford full color. But again, to think that our story came out TWO YEARS ahead of theirs, well, it makes me happy too.
PHILBERT: I'm always happy to give out autographs. If only my fan base were adoring nacho ninjettes and not KFM moderators...:p
They have their regular "profiles" section
That month featured "Janessa Butts." Honestly.
Come on now, for those of you that read IKF, admit it, you turn to the profiles section first. They should expand that to a centerfold. There's an Italian martial arts mag that used to do that and I gotta admit, it worked.
We had to turn down Catwoman...
Halle Berry was calling me and calling me. She said she'd do anything to be on our cover. But I had to refuse because she was doing some Capoeira not Chinese MA. Or at least, her CGI stunt double was... ;)