Finally Stickfighter Magazine is back in circulation as a FREE Online bi-monthly Magazine. Welcome to 'Stickfighter' the International Eskrima Kali Arnis Magazine! Bringing the Filipino martial arts community closer together with regular news, reviews, updates, profiles, reports, training tips, travel information and feature articles, contributed by many of the top Filipino martial artists from around the world for the Filipino martial arts practitioner and enthusiast. Vol.1 Issue.1 February 2009 Filipino Legend: GM Roland Dantes Interview: GM Kano Canete Book Review: Cebuano Eskrima 'Beyond the Myth' Training Tip: Footwork Plus news reports and more...... Special Features In Memory of Master Arif A. Shaikh By Tuhon Pat O'Malley Filipino Martial Arts in the US Shadowed by Al Capone & The Roaring 20's By Grand Master Rene Latosa Stickfighting By Maestro Greg Henderson GM Bram Frank - CSSDSC To View this magazine you will need to have the latest DNL Reader (if you dont already have one) which you can download from here. DNL Reader Here is the link too Download the 1st Issue of Stickfighter Magazine Vol 1 Issue 1 The 1st issue has been placed on a free shareware site to make it easily accessable to as many people as possible, Please note that all future issues (as they are released every 2 months) will only be available via subscription, you can do this by logging onto Stickfighter Magazine and clicking on the subscribe button. We welcome all feedback on any part of the magazine as we are always striving to improve this publication for better enjoyment of the readers and please feel free to pass on the download links to your freinds and family. Best regards Pat O'Malley Technical Editor.
Just an up-date, there is now .exe version on line of the magazine for Apple Users but some of the flash applications have had to be disabled for this format. And a .PDF version on line which is just a flat document so you dont get those nice page turns and interactions with the magazine. The .dnl version is far the better version with so much more interaction within the pages of the Magazine. Best regards Pat
Latest up-dates from the Editor Here is the latest up-date from Stickfighter Magazine for those of you having any download issues.
For any of you guys and gals that use Apple Mac's or prefer pdf can you give us any tips on how we can best improve you veiwing of the magazine and get it doing much the same as the dnl version which is very interactive. Thanks in advance for your help. Pat
I have got to say, what a superb magazine! I thoroughly enjoy reading it. Still not got through it all though. Very professionally put together and nice and glossy. Has the makings of being an all time great! Nice and informative too. Looking forward to the next edition! Graham
If you go to the Stickfighter Magazine web site there are now download buttons for .exe and .pdf versions of the magazine. Unfortunatly the .pdf version is not as interactive as the .dnl and .exe versions of the mag, eg. page turning, video clips, picture enlargements and hidden text/pop ups, but we are working on that side of things as we dont want anyone to miss out on the expeariance of the interactive part of the magazine. At the moment we are putting some of the content that you cant see on the .pdf up on the website, hopefully within the next week will have much of it live on the web site too. But we are looking for tips from you guys on how to make the pdf version more interactive as it is not a format we use that often as the dnl version is geared more towards online magazines and books. Also you can print off the dnl version of the magazine too, on the navigation buttons at the bottom of the book. We also understand that sitting in front of a computer reading can be tiresome, which is why we have opted for the magazine theme. We want to keep articles to a reasonable length and with 2 months between issues you can read one article every couple of days in a few minutes and come back another day by use of the contents page you can easily navigate back to where you left off. Also the links, video footage and other interactive sections take away the feeling of just sitting and reading at your PC. We also recommend FMA Digest (Who have been around for 5 years now)for your in depth previews of all the different styles and event reports. FMA Digest will in future issues have their own section in Stickfighter Magazine outlining their previous issues and letting you know what is to come in the future issues. Our intention is to point everyone in the right direction and share as much of our knowledge and get as much information out there for the FMA expert, enthusiast and for anyone wishing to take up FMA. Best regards Pat
I hope I don't seem too harsh, but I've read about half of the earlier pdf, and I think you could really use some proofreading.
Not too harsh at all, but what we are trying to do is not to really gramatically correct everyone as people from different cultures write in different ways and to do this would take away from the essence of their articles, plus coupled with the different spellings of the same words from other countries it is sometimes hard to spell check, for instance in the UK we say colour and in the USA they say color, so you can see the problems, but we have now since the 1st issue was released have a couple of proof readers on board who are more than qualified for this possition so the magazine can only get better. If it was a UK magazine with only UK writers we would re-edit the whole magazine as we saw fit, without question, but as we have many cultures writing with many of the authors with English as a second language or with different cultures who may have different interprestations of the same words (that may be spelt differently) we feel people will benefit by keeping the articles as complete as possible as many authors also write as they would say it, whether it is gramatically correct or not. Any other tips are always welcome. Best regards Pat
