April 2005

Fight Times has truly taken the military and martial arts world by storm.

Our policy here at Fight Times is to bring our readers a wide and varied combination of subjects and offer them access to an equally as diverse range of products.

Being down under in New Zealand no longer has its disadvantages as it did with our printed form of the magazine.

Our mission statement in regards to content is simple and that is to include responsible material and not get involved with the politics.

We also do not believe in reinventing the wheel when it comes to quality subject matter and as such have associations with top writers and other publications where we can use their material.

We are proud of our network of professionals and very pleased to include full credits to the source and direct links to their sites.

We do not consider our publication to be a martial arts movie star type read but more a source of information on who and what is out there working hard at their individual areas of expertise.

We like to be informative into individuals' life stories and the specific details in regards to individual skills styles and systems.

It is our objective to point out the facts and encourage readers to look at things practically and problem solve and evaluate for themselves.

We encourage writers that are experts in their fields or committed to their practise to submit material that people of the same interest will enjoy and benefit from.

We are also well aware that history didn't always get things right and some practises of old would never be considered the most practical or effective means to achieve ones objective and some are down right dangerous.

Unfortunately many followers are simply that followers and never evaluate or question their superiors' teachings.

While we do our utmost to avoid comparisons involving individuals, styles, codes or systems, we do like to provide detailed skills evaluations and often in comparison to less than primary options being instructed to achieve the same objective.

While we realise there is more than one way to achieve an objective we always endeavour to point out the primary option.

We also like to include subject material on related issues of technique and performance enhancement and breakthroughs in training methods.

Detailed reasoning whether it is for competitive combative or traditional subject material is what we like to include in fight times.

We welcome all writers to submit their works for consideration and if they meet our responsible publishing criteria then we will queue them for inclusion.

We enjoy works from all ages all practises and on all relevant subjects, no submission to small or not important enough.

We like positive material and discourage negative or political content or any inclusions with alternate agendas other than having something positive and important to include.

This is not a masters or superstars publication and individuals of any or no rank and from young children to senior citizens are not only welcome but are encouraged to forward submissions.

We can all benefit from reading inclusions from the experts right down to beginners and others with outside interests such as parents or spectators.

People need to read subjects that are informative and factual and relate to them directly and their goals and objectives.

Not everyone can be a superstar but everyone can strive to be the best they can be at their chosen practise and we always endeavour to bring you material that is beneficial to self and skills improvement.

Even though on occasions we may not necessarily agree with individuals methods we are an open forum publication and will encourage such contributors to fully explain there reasoning and then leave it to our readership to consider.

We want to be a publication known for providing the facts of the content and the background of individuals.

We welcome you from all corners of the globe to write for Fight Times, the free on line magazine, that is always out first being down under.

Article written by Fight Times Editor