Added photo to Notebook post

Original post The Notebook.

If you're not currently keeping a notebook, now's a good time to start.

Make sure it's legible.

Make sure that you've got enough detail in there so you'll remember what you were trying to work on when you revisit it in the future.

Dracula Guard Boxing?

Whoever found us via that search term - come back!

I have absolutely no idea what you were looking for, but I'm curious to know what you expected to find.

For everyone else, check out Bas Rutten vs. Dracula.

Upated "Some Thoughts on Safe Sparring"

For those keeping track, the article Some Thoughts on Safe Sparring has been updated.

WWNHH? Store Now Open!

Because typing things in a search engine can be too much work....

Why We Not Hit Hard? has put together an Amazon Web store (technically an aStore) to put all the products that we've reviewed (and liked) in one spot to make it easy to buy. The store has the not-too-painful URL of: http://astore.amazon.com/whwenohiha-20 or you can find it on the sidebar.

Of course, this is only for products that are sold through Amazon. Although they typically have very good, if not the best prices, it still may be worth your time to shop around the other big stores or go looking or sales (for instance, I don't think I've purchased _any_ of my gear from Ringisde at full price).

Have fun, let us know how it goes.

People like us

We recently got our first bit of fan mail:

"This website is great. I read it out loud to my sister, who practiced full-contact Kung-fu, in Seattle for several years, and we both nearly wet our pants."

"Making people wet themselves" was our #2 goal (#1 being, "get rich and famous"). Considering that we're just over a month into this and we've nearly reached that goal, things are looking pretty good for #1.

No hate mail as of yet, but if you wanted to send some, it could go to whywenothithard@gmail.com.

Contact

Some day, we'll have fancy emails. Until then, you can reach us at

info@whywenothithard.com

Because we're still operating in 1997, please be specific with your subjects so we can route the emails appropriately. i.e. Question for Sifu Z, Can I come train with you guys?, U r t3h suxx0r, get a live!, &c.

FAQ

FAQ:

For everything you couldn't learn from the About Us page.

1.0 About the site

1.1 What's the purpose of this site?

Check out the aforementioned About Us page.

1.2 Why another site/blog?

I wrote a little brochure for our school that would answer all the questions about procedure and etiquette that I thought would have been helpful when I joined (as well as answering common questions new students kept asking me). In theory, the book will be distributed to students someday, but the blog allows for much more extensibility and the ability to cover more topics in greater detail (as well as a more multimedia approach). This will be a groupblog, so a variety of opinions will be expressed. Should be fun!

1.3 Who are you guys?

We're group of friends training at the same school in Chicago. We've got between 3 and 20+ years of experience individually.

1.4 Are any of you trained doctors, or etc.?

No. The medical advice we may or may not provide is from anecdotal evidence only. You should definitely check with your own doctor before using any of our suggestions. Please don't sue.

1.5 How do I get in touch with you guys?

See the Contact page. Alternately, info@whywenothithard.com

1.6 Does the name mean anything?

As far as you know, no. But that's just because the guy we sorta got it from would beat me up if he found out.

1.7 My school is better than yours! My instructor can beat yours up! Your Jiu-Jitsu is weak!

No doubt. Anything's possible. It certainly is.

1.8 Why don't you write about the stuff I want to read about?

Send us an email and let us know what you'd like us to do! whywenothithard@gmail.com

2.0 Boring Admin Stuff

2.1 Why hasn't my comment posted?

For the time being, comments are moderated.

2.2 Blogger? eww! Will you ever publish on a real platform?

Ouch. Blogger's been good to us. Also, we have our reasons. But someday, yes, we'll likely move to WordPress.

2.3 Hey, your article is different than the first time I read it.

One of the wonderful things about the Web is that we can correct/change information in articles. Because we primarily come from academic backgrounds (i.e. Mike read a book once), we feel compelled to note when an article has been substantially updated. There will usually be another post mentioning the change and then a footer in the article noting that.

However, grammar mistakes and spelling errors generally just get fixed when we notice them.

3.0 Legal Stuff

3.1 Opinions Disclaimer

As a whole, Why We Not Hit Hard doesn't have an opinion. The individual authors certainly do and those opinions are theirs alone.

3.2 Are any of you trained doctors, or etc.?

No. The medical advice we may or may not provide is from anecdotal evidence only. You should definitely check with your own doctor before using any of our suggestions. Please don't sue.

3.3 Why aren't you guys progressive enough to use the GNU license?

The GNU license is cool, but for software.

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As an FAQ, this post will probably be updated fairly often and therefore kick itself up in your feed every now and then.

Speaking of which, last updated 2/22/08