Karate blogging

[muttley]

Has anyone ever started up their own blog about Karate? I have been thinking about starting up my own karate blog for a while to talk about my 30 years in and out of the martial arts. I had an idea about talking about my training, posting the odd physical training video and as I progress in Kyokushin, posting about more in-depth training things.

I would also like to blog about my experience of using Karate in many self protection incidents and my teachings of personal protection in my previous job (not naming names or particular incidents of course).

Trouble is, I don't know where to start or if it is something that would interest people.

[Nidan Melbourne]

I have used the Google App 'Blogger' and just started sharing from there. Otherwise use Wordpress which is good.

But to be honest i am looking at starting a new karate blog and have it as a collaborative with others. Would you be interested?

Type and share it and people will come.

[muttley]

Sounds interesting and I may well be interested

[Nidan Melbourne]

I think it would be interesting because it could be able to share various points of view on things.

[Montana]

Uhhhh...being 62 years old and not really up on all this "blogger" stuff..isn't what you're talking about the same thing as what we're doing here on this site???

[Spodo Komodo]

I tried it once and couldn't keep it going. I do blog on other subjects but I don't really know enough interesting stuff to keep the momentum going on karate. My blog that gets the greatest volume of viewings is one on painting Subbuteo, people seem to like pictures and how-to guides far more than interesting prose. Mind you, a lot of my viewers are Italian so they may not necessarily read English.

[Karate_John]

I got a tumblr martial arts blog I maintain, I don't post about myself per-say. But more on my views and martial arts stuff I like.

[Titanium]

That sounds a great idea.

I'm up for blogging participation. If anyone would like another author on their blog please ask.

I had a blog about Japanese Proverbs one, had over 19,000 hits in its first year and my other assistant author locked me out the fool. (now closed down)

Blogger - great

Wordpress - great

blog.com - slow and full of errors.

[Titanium]

I think a blog is like a forum - the hardest part is getting members or a large quantity of readers.

[Wastelander]

I started out blogging on Blogger about 7 years ago, and posted pretty regularly for a while. Then, I took a couple years off, and then started up a new blog on Blogger, which I kept up with better. Recently, I upgraded to using WordPress.

Personally, I think blogging is a very healthy way of delving into your own thoughts on your training.