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Found via the t-rage link. Well done site and I just wanted to spread the word. Rhetorical question of the day; Why are most martial arts websites so badly designed? I'm only asking because I went to the Boston Martial Arts forum on this page and it was a visual soup of purple and gray that just screams 2001. It's either that or you get some "Web Pages That Suck" candidate with the flying eagle .GIFS and the bright primary color banners and blinking green text.
Here are some of my theoretical answers:
1) It takes a lot of time to run a martial arts school so there's less time to spend on a website.
2) A good portion of schools' sites are done on a volunteer basis by a student of the school. So you get what you paid for, and we all know what happens when you design on a "volunteer" basis.
3) Even though martial arts schools don't tend to make money hand over fist (see reason #2), it's not really in their best interest to do a lot of marketing and advertising. I think most respected Sifus would say that they would rather train 10 students the right way than 50 students in a half-assed way.
4) I've always been tempted to try a flash animation of a martial arts form from my school which, btw, has a better than most site, but good schools tend to view their techniques as copyrighted material and you don't want to give away too much of a good thing.

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