This is just some crazy ideas of where MA is headed - feel free to flame me or put your own ideas in. The near future of MA: By 2020, there'll be public outcry over a death during a UFC bout. UFC and 'extreme' MA rules will be changed so there will be more action and less ground fighting. An American will come up with a combination of locking/restraint techniques to counter the dominance of BJJ, and most fighters will start to use these techniques against the common take-downs. By 2010, Hollywood will stop getting chinese action stars to star in the most interesting martial arts movies, and there will be a few American stars with real ma skills dominating the movies. By 2020, there will be so much online learning of ma, that stylists will be worried about the death of normal training methods. A real street fight will be recorded on cctv or amateur video and will make the rounds through internet forums and blogs. It will be picked up by the major media outlets and the ma’ist in the video will become a public figure, with a movie offer or consulting time on television as “the real deal” (a bit like what’s happening to hip hop) By 2015, we will see the first computer generated martial arts star. Major animation studios will compete to produce the most realistic action star, probably based around a video game character, and will release their movies around the same time. While asia will become more accepting of western experts, there will be more teachers promoting "newly unearthed ancient warrior arts" of the west, mostly based on Greco-roman wrestling and close contact grappling. Governments still won’t be any closer to regulating MA, although there will be more cases of police using excessive force against people who use MA against police.
They'll re-animate Karl Gotch the famous 'god of wrestling' and put him against Marilyn Manson, who turned to NHB fighting after battering Charlton Heston in an episode of 'Full Contact Celebrity Squares'. All these guys will be on Steroids and genetically enhanced.
Japan will make MA robots to train with in about 2047, but due to a malfunction these will go on a rampage across the country.
You will be able to download complete interactive instruction in any discipline, but it's a moot point because EVERYONE HAS GUNS.
lol I'd pay to see that one, the bookies would make a killing! "I'm here to collect, I bet on Bruce" "Bruce lost" "no, he won" "no, Bruce lost. Bruce won." "What were the odds?" "100-1 - too bad you didn't bet on Bruce"
Genetically engineered MAists - Tae Kwon do students will have eight foot legs whilst judo students will be quadruple jointed.
i bet the government has that and the yare holding out on us. they cant force bruce lee to fight Hes lyk Yulaw from THE ONE. he'll break the world in half b4 he decides to mess up his brother.... and no noe put aliens into thought , what if they wanna practice MA and make super MA hybirds E.T. the karate kid
2015 - All Martial Arts will be marketed as having direct link to the style used in Dragon Ball Z. Promising Ultimate powerups, and massive control of Ki. A select group will be arranged, and called 'The Z fighters', whose job will be to protect earth from big powerful bad guys, and possibly alian human/ape races wishing to take over earth.
After the birth of sentient AI, someone will program every MA style known to man into a supercomputer. The computer with process the information and the result of billions of combinations of potential fights, and come to the unarguable conclusion that tae bo is the ultimate martial art.
By 2026 Grifter will become champion of ever MA competition. After doing so, I will build an army of an un-imaginable numbers of MA'ist. After I teach them how to master bladed weapons so that they can block bullets, I will engage in a war to become 'Supreme Ruler of Earth'(as I have deciede that that is what my official title will be). Those who choose not to join my army will, inevitably, fall to my amazing strength and power. I will than collect the DragonBalls(you didnt really think I was going to forget about are good friend Dragonball Z in this story did you??) and wish for eternal youth. Than I will rule the Earth from sometime before eventually conquering the entire universe, Which, contrary to belief, doesnt go on forever. The future has been set and you have been warned!! MAUHAHAHAHAHAHHA!! :yeleyes:
I will join your army!!! I'm gonna train 8x as hard from now on and quit school, work etc to prepare for your coming to power!
To wild for me NZRIC! I think that alot of good masists from today will carry on to teach what they always have..Now today what they teach isn't seen as very traditional but when they teach it in the future it will vbe called rubbish andand to traditional and controling. Just becasue they don't want to train in stuff outside their system.