Patrick

Hello, Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2017 edition of the KarateForums.com Awards! For this first time, we are publishing a nominations guide. In this guide, we will list the members 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 However, 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, we are going to list the top 10 posting members, from the last 12 months, in each section, 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. 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 members posts within a given section, as you put together your ballot. Nominations Guide With that said, here are the top 10 contributions to award-eligible forums, plus ties, in alphabetical order: Karate Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong Dani_001 JR 137 MatsuShinshii Nidan Melbourne Prototype Safroot sensei8 Wastelander Wayofaswede Jiu-Jitsu and Grappling Martial Arts Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong bushido_man96 JR 137 Kusotare LLLEARNER sensei8 singularity6 tallgeese Tempest TJ-Jitsu Equipment Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong Bulltahr DWx JR 137 LLLEARNER neoravencroft MatsuShinshii Nidan Melbourne sensei8 singularity6 Struggling_Mudansha Health, Training and Fitness Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong bushido_man96 DWx JR 137 LLLEARNER Nidan Melbourne Safroot sensei8 singularity6 tubby Instructor Central Contributor of the Year Alan Armstrong bushido_man96 DWx JR 137 LLLEARNER MatsuShinshii Nidan Melbourne sensei8 Spartacus Maximus The Pred 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

Who's ready?!

I thought the American Made trailer looked good.

That is unfortunate about your sister, Liam! Was it a fun experience for her, overall? Patrick

I am going to move this back to the Karate forum, where it was posted initially, from the Introductions forum, where it had been moved. I just wanted to explain the replies above. Thanks. Welcome Kohi! Patrick

Happy birthday to Bob (sensei8)! Thank you for all of the contributions that you have made to our community over the years. You've made such an incredible mark here. I appreciate you, Bob. Patrick

You'll be the first moderator I've ever had come back from Tommy John surgery! It's like I'm managing a baseball team. Sorry you have to deal with this Danielle. I know from baseball surgeries, they say they come back stronger after having the surgery and going through the proper rehab, so I'm sure that'll be the case with you, as well. Patrick

Hey Narong. Welcome to KF! Patrick

That's very nice of you to say, Lex! You're definitely deserving, though! Thanks for being a part of this community. 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 September is... Luther unleashed. Congratulations Lex! Thank you for the contributions that you have made to our community over the years. Sincerely, Patrick

That's amazing, David! Congrats. Patrick

Glad to hear that you are progressing, tubby! How are things now? Patrick

Happy birthday to John (Zaine)! Thank you for all of your contributions here over the years. 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 August is... skullsplitter. Congratulations skullsplitter! Thank you for being a member of our community for so long. Coming up on 9 years in December! We appreciate you. Sincerely, Patrick

Welcome aboard, JazzKicker. Happy that you found us. I appreciate the kind words about the community. Patrick

Welcome to KF, KarateNewbie. Glad to have you. Patrick

Thanks Bob, Alex and Brian. Patrick

Happy birthday to Danielle (DWx)! Thank you for being a part of our community, and for everything that you do here. Patrick

Hey all, Thank you for visiting KarateForums.com. We have moved KarateForums.com to https://. This means that the information that you submit to KarateForums.com is now more secure. More details for the curious. Generally speaking, websites like ours hadn't done this previously, because we weren't dealing with what is traditionally considered sensitive information. We're not handling your bank accounts, credit card numbers, physical addresses, etc. But more recently, there has been an effort to push all websites to do this, driven by browser makers and search engines. It's a good idea. The big thing you may have noticed were nagging messages on our login pages, especially tied to the password field, saying this website was not secure (like this message in Firefox and this message in Chrome). These messages should now be gone. We appear to have implemented https successfully, but if you should encounter any problems, please let me know. If you have any questions at all, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks, Patrick

Hey all, Our own DWx is featured in this documentary about the EITF TKD European Championships 2017: Really cool. Congrats Danielle! Patrick

Belated welcome, Byzantine. Thank you so much for making the leap and registering! Patrick

Thank you for the kind words. And for helping to make it so. Patrick

No worries. Congrats to your wife! Glad to hear your enjoyed the concert, as well. 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 July is... singularity6. Congratulations Ken! In a very short time, you have already made so many great contributions to our community. Thank you! Sincerely, Patrick

Welcome to KF, Lynn. Thank you for joining us. Patrick