[Any Bugs, Errors and Confusions?]

Does anyone else notice the background scrolling horizontally? Not sure if it's just the page refreshing itself.

[Judging a Gym by it's Webpage]

I would never, ever choose a gym just based on the website. I can write you anything you want. Most gyms just have boilerplate text anyway. Definitely go and see for yourself before you commit. If they don't let you do a free trial class they probably have something to hide anyway!

 

I think it's interesting to see what a gym puts out there as a way to market themselves. What do they think will attract customers and who are they focusing their attention on?

[Muay Thai Gym Attire]

Interesting, I'm not a fighter but I've recently started following Muay Thai and MMA fighters on face book and watching fights on youtube. Most of the women who show up in my feed are wearing shorts/skorts and a sports bra/crop top. As someone who is an outsider to the sport I assumed that to be the standard attire for female fighters. 

Do gyms have a dress code? Are there rules about what fighters can and can't wear in the ring?

Of course sex sells and in many professional sports women's attire is revealing to appeal to a heterosexual male audience.

 

[Any Bugs, Errors and Confusions?]

I also just explored that if you click on the little icon in the middle - between the topic's title and other stuff it shows the first and last post!

 

My turn to learn something new. I never notice that "preview topic" icon before. Fancy!

[Any Bugs, Errors and Confusions?]

When I go to "New content" and click on the topic it brings me to the page, but it starts at the head. It would be cool if it would scroll down automagically to the new unread post.

I also didn't notice if the unread content is marked differently in the thread. Is it even possible? 

If you click on the little black circle/conversation symbol next to the topic thread it should bring you to the newest post. If you hover over it, a message pops up that says " go to first unread post".

[Judging a Gym by it's Webpage]

I was googling Muay Thai in Vermont, USA and found a webpage for a school a couple towns over from me. http://www.vermontmuaythai.com/ 

Reading through it I saw a few things that were really attractive to me: they welcome beginners, explicitly say that no one will be humiliated or embarrassed and there are pictures of women training in their photo gallery. 

There were also a few things that really turned me off although I'm not exactly sure why: designed for rapid progress, learn simple but devastating techniques. Seems sort of cheesy and like some of those rip-off martial arts studios that promise you a new belt promotion every 6 months so they can make money off testing fees.

They put a lot of emphasis that they teach "real" Muay Thai and training "like a Thai" but I'm not sure how I could judge this as someone who has never done Muay Thai before. 

They do offer a free class so maybe someday I will get up the nerve to go down and check it out.

I'd love to hear how other people found/chose their Western gyms.

[Any Bugs, Errors and Confusions?]

There seems to be a page loading lag time for me. I'm on a windows 8 computer using Google Chrome as my browser. It's a little slow in Firefox as well. Internet Explorer seems to load the fastest.

[Any Bugs, Errors and Confusions?]

I got a message that I had reached my maximum number of likes for the day. Not sure if that is a bug or a feature.

[Privacy for Women - How Are We Going To Do It?]

Women's only spaces are great. I belong to a women's only ski forum and a mixed gender ski forum and the women's forum is definitely more welcoming.

Will trans women be able to join the women's forum? I hope that anyone who identifies as female could join.

[Hello - What's this Forum? An Introduction]

I'm Kristen. I'll mostly be a lurker since I'm not a muay thai practitioner myself but Sylvie asked me to help test drive the new forum. I'll have to dig up a cool avatar to post with.