Patrick

We definitely have Kyokushin folks here. Please feel free to post threads about Kyokushin, and I suspect they will show themselves even more. Welcome! Patrick

Hey Bob, I'm so glad to hear that you found this support group. It sounds like its is already helping. Patrick

Hey Ethan. Welcome. Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for November is... Wayofaswede for the second time! Glad to have you as part of the community, Wayofaswede! January 16 will mark 5 years that you have been here! We appreciate all of your contributions over the years. Thanks, Patrick

Thank you to those who have nominated thus far! There's still plenty of time. This is an amazing way to recognize some of your favorite contributors in the community! Please take a few minutes to nominate. It makes a difference! Thanks, Patrick

And I've watched season two now. Still great! Anyone started watching it?

Hello, Welcome to the 20th annual KarateForums.com Awards! Yes, 20th! Through these awards, we recognize just a few of the individuals who have made outstanding contributions to KarateForums.com in the past year. Over the last 19 years, we have honored 160 different members with a nomination and 62 with an award. Both of these numbers will grow again this year. Your participation is vital. It is the members of this community who select the nominees and vote for the winners. What You Should Know Before Nominating 1. Review the KarateForums.com Awards 2021 Nominations Guide, serving as a starting point in filling out your ballot. 2. These awards take into consideration all community activity between October 19, 2020 and October 18, 2021. Members must be nominated based upon their activity in this period. 2. To nominate, you must have a KarateForums.com account with at least 25 posts made on or before October 18, 2021. 3. Only one member can be nominated for each award. In other words, you cannot nominate two members for Member of the Year. You have to pick one person. One person can be nominated for more than one award, however. 4. A nominated member must have contributed to KarateForums.com or to the specific section recognized by an award within the above date period. 5. You cannot nominate yourself for any of the awards. 6. Your nominations will be kept private. We do not publicly reveal who nominated whom. 7. Please do not attempt to artificially inflate our nomination totals in any way. This includes, but is not limited to: Trading nominations, encouraging people to nominate indiscriminately (publicly or privately), sending spam and any other behavior that could lead to results being artificially skewed. Members found to be participating in these activities will be disqualified from nomination in any category. 8. Though it is unlikely to occur, a banned member cannot be nominated. 9. Please note that you do not have to nominate in every category. You can nominate for as many or as few as you would like. Please go for as many as you feel comfortable with. The more valid nominations we receive, the better! From these nominations, the ballot for each award will be chosen, consisting of the top 4 nominees plus ties. Through the poll system available on these forums, you will be able to vote for the winners! Categories Important note: All members (including Sempais and Senseis) are eligible for nomination in any category, except where otherwise noted. However, I (Patrick) am ineligible for nomination in any category. 1. Member of the Year This award is intended to acknowledge the member who you feel best exemplifies the qualities that KarateForums.com puts a premium on. Knowledge is valuable, but most valuable is a kind and helpful nature. You don't need to be a martial arts expert to be nominated for this award - you need to be someone who is kind and who shares what they know in a productive fashion that helps others. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis, and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 2. New Member of the Year This award is the same as Member of the Year, except that this one is strictly for members that registered on or between the dates of October 19, 2020 and October 18, 2021. Eligible members must have made at least 25 posts by October 18, 2021. Current staff members (Sempais, Senseis and Patrick) cannot be nominated for this award. 3. Community Spirit Award This award should go to a person whom you feel has a strong passion for this community. A person who is all about the home team - in this case, KarateForums.com. 4. Staff Member of the Year This award is the same as the Member of the Year award, except that this award is for current staff members only (except Patrick). If you are unsure of who is on staff, please visit http://www.karateforums.com/staff.php for a complete listing. 5. Funniest Member of the Year Humor is an important aspect of the forums and this award recognizes the member who has brought a smile to your face many times. 6. Karate Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Karate forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. 7. Health and Fitness Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Health and Fitness forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. 8. Instructors and School Owners Contributor of the Year This award is for your favorite contributor within the Instructors and School Owners forum - a member who has added substantial value to that section in the past year. Ready to Nominate? Please nominate. You will find a blank ballot at the bottom of this message that you can copy and paste. You nominate by sending a private message to the account with the username Awards through this link: http://www.karateforums.com/privmsg.php?mode=post&u=2715 - nominations will be closed on November 10, 2021 at 10pm Eastern. Please do not post your nominations publicly in this thread or elsewhere in the forums. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to private message me or reply here. Thank you for reading and for visiting KarateForums.com. Your participation in these awards is what makes them meaningful. I can't wait to see who you choose to honor this year. Here is a blank ballot that you can use:

Hello, Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2021 edition of the KarateForums.com Awards! To aide you in doing so, we publish this guide, where we list the members qualified for our New Member of the Year award and those who have made the most posts in the sections that are represented within our KarateForums.com Awards categories. We recognize that it can sometimes be difficult to choose nominees and hope that this guide will be helpful. How to Use This Guide Post count is not necessarily what you should look at when deciding who should be honored. Perhaps someone doesn't post as much as others, but when they do, their posts are amazing. Maybe they made a post that really stood out to you and you want to recognize them for it. Maybe someone makes a lot of short posts in that section. For this reason, for the forum sections that are featured in our KarateForums.com Awards categories, we are going to list the top 10 posting members from the last 12 months, plus ties, but without the actual number of posts and in alphabetical order. Our goal here is to provide a useful guide, but also to not prejudice the nominations toward only those with the highest quantities of posts. For the New Member of the Year category, we will list all members who have qualified based on registration date and the number of posts they have made. We hope this will provide you with a reasonable starting point for your nominations. However, you can nominate members who are not listed here at all, and I encourage you to conduct your own research by viewing and thinking about a member's posts within a given section as you put together your ballot. Nominations Guide With that said, here are the members who have qualified for our New Member of the Year award, in alphabetical order: New Member of the Year Miick 11 SLK59 tatsujin Wamp And here are the top 10 contributors to award-eligible forums, plus ties, in alphabetical order: Karate Contributor of the Year aurik bushido_man96 Himokiri Karate Miick 11 RW sensei8 SLK59 Spartacus Maximus Wastelander Zaine Health and Fitness Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong april aurik Bobd400 Bulltahr bushido_man96 Drillscoach DWx Fat Cobra GS718Trek JamuraiSack JazzKicker kenshinkan08 mjh1969 ramymensa scohen0300 Seamas sensei8 SLK59 vergil96 Wamp Zaine Instructors and School Owners Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong ashworth bushido_man96 DWx Nidan Melbourne sensei8 Spartacus Maximus The Pred Wastelander Zaine For the full details on submitting your nominations, please see our nominations announcement. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly or ask in that thread. Thanks, Patrick

Welcome to KF, Dboxobi! Patrick

Congrats! That's awesome.

Glad to hear the progress!

Happy to see some good news here. Patrick

Glad that you are sticking with it, Questor! Thanks for taking us on the journey with you.

I'm sorry, Bob. That's a lot to have to process. I can't really tell you how to feel, but we're here to listen and support you. Patrick

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for October is... pittbullJudoka for the second time! It's been good to see you back in the community, Rusty. Thank you for all of the contributions that you have made over the last 17+ years. Thanks, Patrick

This is good to hear.

New teaser!

Thanks for asking! Yes, I believe so! I'll consider myself 100% when I start swinging a club again at full speed.

That's frustrating. Sounds like my golf injury. Just doing something routine and ... there goes my arm. I found it to be sort of traumatic, like it's going to take some time to get back to doing something I've done 2 million times in my life. I still haven't hit a ball.

That's frustrating, Bob. One step at a time.

Hey vergil96. Glad to have you.

Hello, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We recognize one member every month as the KarateForums.com Member of the Month for their positive contributions to this community. Our honoree for September is... P.A.L for the second time! Thank you for all of the incredible contributions that you have made over the last 17+(!!!) years, P.A.L! So glad to have you as a member. Thanks, Patrick

Congrats Sean!

Congrats.

Hey all, We just watched The Paper Tigers on Netflix. It's about three Kung-Fu prodigies that get older and... life happens, and they lose touch with the art (well, two out of three, one transitions to being an MMA instructor or at least, he works at an MMA gym). When their sifu is killed, they try to track down who did it and avenge his death. It relies on some of the martial arts mysticism that I know can turn off a lot of folks, e.g. one of the main traits of the bad guy is that he uses "poison fingers," which is basically a one touch death. But if you can get past that, there are some nice themes around martial arts being a venue for friendship and growth. One fun thing about it: Matthew Page, who portrays Master Ken on YouTube, has a solid role in the movie, and has some of the funniest moments in the film. On Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81351585 Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zM3IpjY3CI