I need to make a flyer.
I have always gotten students by word of mouth, but now my students are getting better and I would really like for them to have more people to interact with. Also, I love teaching so the more the merrier.
If I were totally awesome, I would do something like this.
But I have learned from experience that people who are planning to study martial arts often don't quite see the humor in things the same way I do.
I think what you are supposed to do is put on some pajamas, pick up a staff and strike a cool kungfu pose and take a black and white picture in the mountains or maybe get a cool silhouette of a dude in a pose. Then you pick out a fortune cookie font and cut and paste some info about wing chun from wikipedia. Gotta be sure to say efficient and centerline a bunch of times for best effect.
I was going to post some funny flyers that I found on the internet, but it's kind of depressing. They are all EXTREME and often have people kicking, especially the Taekwondo ones...Oh wait, here is good one. I knew good ole Aikido wouldn't let me down.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Damn, if I am going to have a flyer, I need a logo. I think you just take a Yin Yang symbol and throw some Chinese characters on it, or maybe add a snake or crane or something, maybe some weapons. This is getting hard.
Ok, I will sketch something up in MS paint. Here you go.
That can be my logo. A dude chillin in hammock between two wooden dummy palms drinking a pina colada (I tried to draw a beer, but it was too much work and beyond my drawing skills.) Don't worry, this is just a draft. I will turn the sun into a yin yang symbol and draw a dragon flying across the sky or something.
Of course I am kidding. I still have no idea what I will do. Probably just get name cards with my blog address written on it. Whatever I do, I will post it here so you can make fun of my photoshop skills.
Now, what's the best filter to make a convincing chi blast?
Some sort of crane vs. snake motif with a triangle worked into it seems to be popular. Personally, I like the guy on the hammock.
ReplyDeletedon't forget to use the word "devastating" on your flyer, too.
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I may have to do that. If what I do is bad enough, I will consider it a "guide" for someone who actually knows what they are doing.
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