Some great Ideas here you guys, and good insight Mitchell and Zachery. From you two I’ve gathered that it needs to have all of the latest and future events/stories while giving sections a timeless quality different than what can be found on the internet.
Here is what else I’ve been able to piece together: I includes a summation most(if not all) of the ideas posted.
"Information that would be useful to its readers" "epic idea" Content Highlights and interviews of different traceurs (famous/known, maybe unknown) to see what they do "A Day in the Life of..."
Warm-ups, exercises, conditioning, training methods, moves, drills, etc... (Demon's Drills section)
Featured traceur/traceuse, Movement of the month, forgotten movements, tips and tricks
Tutorials of such showing 6 progressive frames on one page to demonstrate the motion involved (with text of course)
Local and international parkour news/events and stories, headlining what's taking place in the community
Calendar listing the biggest jams, and special events in different regions of the US, and maybe the world
Philosophy, psychology, physics/science, sports, travel, and history surrounding parkour/freerunning and its development
Perhaps every once and a while an issue specifically dedicated to certain subjects i.e. tutorials
Inspiration Other sports magazines to look at the set-up
To base it similarly off of the APK site
Local and/or international focuses
Funding No shortage of subscribers with some 65,000 members on APK, not to mention all of the Traceurs/Freerunners that aren't on APK
Get companies (i.e. Nike or Adidas) to pay for advertisements/reviews of their brands/items/equipment
Generous donors
Merchandise sales
American Parkour itself (obviously) etc
Pricing Can't be too expensive to start out so that people are interested
Create a special offer or likewise
Other positives Might get more people into the discipline
Increase APK membership/publicity
Earn more respect for the discipline
ExtrasThere should be a poll to see how many people would buy it. (needing to account for whether or not some people see the pole)
print content in the magazine first, then post it for free online a week or so later.
Use special codes to give subscribers benefits at the APK site, like wallpapers, limited access videos and behind the scenes, etc.
Freerunner & Internet vs A Physical Magazine"Whatever happened to The Freerunner?" "It still comes out every month"
Here is the link
http://freerunnermag.net/live/ I checked it out and it looks great, but it's limited to the internet/computers.
Point being not everyone has a computer, a magazine is more portable, reads better, and might have knowledge specific to the magazine. Check out Mitchell Lewis' comments for other reasons.
"Quality. As bad as this might sound, printed stories tend to have more weight than internet stories. They tend to be more thought out, more thorough, and more informative." "Portability and Coverage"
Other people mentioned how it might help them not be so attached to and distracted by the internet.
"i need to quit spending so much time on here and more time outside training!! lol"
Other Points"I could read it at school during down time"
"It would give me incentive to spread the word if I could just open it to the Philosophy section and just say, here read this"
"Currently the new APK Calender is cluttered and hard to read."
"THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL IDEA! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE IT HAPPEN"I'm going to do what I can. More feedback people? So far it's all sounding good to me.
Now I just want to hear about what APK thinks about it.
