 Today, we're going to do something a little bit different in this video. As 2018 is starting to come to an end, I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk about 2019 and some of the changes that will be coming to the channel. In the past several months, we've seen some tremendous growth and as always, I thank all of you for your viewership, your dedication, your support, your messages and by all means our community has been fantastic. The engagement, the sharing of ideas, I really, really, really enjoy seeing people jump in and talk about the martial arts as a whole. Even if people don't agree with me or agree, don't agree with someone else, it's still good because I see some good, healthy discussions. So that being said, I kind of want to talk about, you know, real quickly where the channel started and where we're going to take it in the next year. When we started this channel, it was a few years ago, it was kind of a proof of concept. We had worked with my previous instructor and we were doing a kind of a test YouTube series to see what kind of response the martial arts community would give a YouTube channel. And we shot a bunch of stuff, you know, short little one to two minute videos, little tips, MMA tips, running the school. At the time, he ran a very successful children's program. So we had him talking about different school programs and different ideas of how to run a school. And he also trained MMA fighters. So we delved into that. So it was kind of a fun experiment to kind of explore what kind of potential the video series had. A lot of you may have scrolled down past some of these more recent videos and see that there's a bunch of other series. Well, that's the old series. And for those of you who have mentioned that he looks like Chuck Liddell. It is funny. He actually did train with Chuck Liddell's camp for a little bit and the kids knew that. So he really was really good at connecting with the children. So he kind of took on that persona and he gave them the fire shorts. It was kind of to pump them up. Kids loved coming to class every day. So that was kind of a fun, fun experience. Since the channel kind of went idle for a while, we decided to take a look at it. And what we noticed was there was still a lot of activity. There seemed to be a genuine interest in the martial arts. So we sat down to talk about where we could take this. And one of those ideas was rebrand the channel, started fresh and actually take the industry and kind of spread it out to not just MMA and Kempo, which was originally, but a lot more arts. Let's take a look at historical studies and training tips and other schools to kind of build a strong community because the interest was there. So that's basically where we started. And honestly, we were kind of impressed by how fast a group. You guys came out of the woodwork and really helped make this channel what it is. I'm very, very happy to see the group that we have. I see the same familiar faces and same names popping up every day, engaging in discussions. And that really makes me feel like we're building something big here. So again, thank you for all of that. So going forward, there's a few things I want to talk about. 2019, we want to focus on this channel as much as possible. I'm going to be upfront and perfectly honest. This is not a full-time job. We actually do video production professionally, so we do do a lot of client work. We have a very busy production schedule. This channel has been the big passion project of ours, but we're seeing this potential and we would like to grow into something bigger and bring you guys even more material. So that's one of our main goals in 2019. One of the ways we want to do that is start bringing you more content. Obviously we're going to keep doing episodes, but what I'm asking for you, and if you can leave some comments down below, is we've been watching the different analytics and seeing what people respond to and the topics that seem to be catching on the ones that aren't. We're asking you right now, I'm asking you to please go down in the comments and type out any specific topics you'd like to see. We've been doing art-specific videos, we've done some training tips, situational awareness, historical studies, individual martial artists, training with injuries, all those topics. So if there's a specific type of topic you would like to see more of, please let us know below. So we kind of know where they got the channel. Because to be honest, when we started the channel, we kind of were picking up in the old mindset that, you know, this was for the kids' programs and we thought more people who would be interested would be parents looking for martial arts for their kids or casual practitioners. And instead what we got was hardcore group of people who really have an appreciation for the martial arts. So you guys actually are a higher caliber audience and we had anticipated and we feel very fortunate to have. So we want to now bring the content that you want to see. So if you want to see more art videos, we did the origin of Taekwondo and Jujitsu and the Kempo videos, we've got more in the works coming out. If that's what you want to see more of, please let me know. If you want more training tips, if you want more life tips in terms of safety awareness and injury and all that, let us know. We want to bring the content that you want to see. Additionally, we plan to start bringing you some books and video workshops in the near future. We're working on some ideas to bring you additional content. We want to take this channel to the next level. We have a great growth right now, but the bigger we can make the channel, the bigger our community grows, the more we can do with it. One thing I'm asking all of you to, at the end of every video, I ask you all to share, please subscribe. And you guys have been doing that. What I'm asking you right now is help this channel grow. I'm asking each and every one of you right now, pick two people you know in the martial arts that you think would like this channel, show it to them and ask them to subscribe. I want a good quality caliber audience here. Once we hit certain milestones, YouTube starts giving us more features, so we can start adding more features and bringing you more content. And additionally, we'd like to explore the idea of a Patreon, if that's something you guys would be interested in. We've got a lot of ideas, videos we would love to travel to, bigger scope projects that obviously right now aren't within our range, but if it's something you guys want, a Patreon might help us achieve that level. So please let me know if you're receptive to something like that. If you need exclusive content, or if you want to support the channel, what you guys are willing to do to help us grow so we can travel and get better interviews and bigger videos coming your way. So going back to the art specific videos real quick, originally we were going to do quick overviews, because at the beginning, we were trying a different variety of topics to see what you guys liked. So we did the Taekwondo video and the Jiu-Jitsu video, which were brief looks. They were shorter. We thought a brief synopsis would work, and people seemed to enjoy it, and it got a great response. But now we're also seeing that with the group that we have, and the viewers here, maybe spend more time and make the art videos a little bit more in depth, which is what we're doing with the Kempo series currently. We also have a Kyokushin series in the works and other arts that we're talking about. And we do have some viewers that we were working with that are helping us put together these projects. So if that is something you want to see, we'd like to bring you more of art videos, not just quick reviews, but a little bit more in depth. So please, again, leave those comments below if that's something you would like. Additionally, we have made a very strong effort to make sure we release a brand new episode every Tuesday at 11.30 a.m. That's been our model. We've been sticking to it. And for the time being, we're going to continue to do that. However, just to give a heads up as things progress in 2019, if we start doing bigger videos, a little bit more in depth videos, that production schedule, that release schedule, might fluctuate a little bit. It might not necessarily be every single week, but we will always continuously regularly make videos. But as of right now, we're still doing the weekly schedule, but that is something that is subject to change as this channel goes on. Because our goal is, we don't want to just give you just quick, fast videos that don't have much meat to it. We want to give you quality content. And just judging by the feedback we got, you guys deserve it. So pretty much that's it in a nutshell. I just want to thank you all very, very, very much for making this channel what it is today. We've had some serious growth. Please help us grow bigger so we can bring you even more and grow this community. You guys are awesome. I wish you all a very, very happy new year. And I look forward to seeing where we go together in 2019.