Michael Shumacher

[aefibird]

And trying to get it back somewhat to a martial arts theme...there are many, many professional sports atheletes in football, baseball, basketball, etc that are practicing martial artisits.

 

Yeah, I think martial arts is becoming more and more popular, especially in the celebrity world, it will probably become "fashionable" for celebs to practice it eventually and they'll start it up, obviously giving up when the novelty goes, damn celebs.

 

I agree that it is becoming 'fashionable' for celebs to do martial arts, at least in the UK. There was a big report in a UK martial arts magazine a couple of months ago about a British TV star (or, rather, wannabe) who only got a mention in the magazine simply because she went to a couple of kickboxing lessons occasionally. I don't class that as being a martial artist, I just see it as following a fashion trend.

 

I think too, that with the poplularity of recent films such as Kill Bill, The Last Samurai and The Matrix, martial arts will become the latest bandwagon. Hopefully, it won't get to the stage that it was at in the '70's & '80's where everyone wanted to be Bruce Lee or the Karate Kid, had a couple of lessons at some cruddy club and then thought that they WERE Bruce Lee or the Karate Kid.

 

I've no problem with the increasing popularity of martial arts, only a problem with those people who train for a couple of months or so and quit and then go around claiming that they're 'trained martial artists'. grrr, McDojo's have a lot to answer for...

[Rich_2k3]

I agree, the problem with these ppl is that if they were ever in a fight and had not been taught properly or addequetly then they may get seriously hurt, this also has repocussions on us real martial artist because ppl think that martial arts are useless, and that those ppl are the evidence, again Mcdojo's are at the core of it...

 

Martial arts are an amazing thing and an amazing human achievement, think about it, we are still being taught fighting methods that have been passed down master to master for centuries, I think they deserve some respect dont you...