Wow, this has been great!! I'm only on page 13 of this beast. Unfortunately, I have a life to lead. Darn! Anyway, I just couldn't resist adding...
Krissy, your opinion does matter. But do you really need any of these folks, who are for the most part anonymous, to acknowledge the worth of your...
Here's another bit I remember from my gun seminar. How the attacker holds the weapons tells you much of the attackers skills as well as his/her...
I attended a weekend "gun" seminar this past May with Shihan Willy Iglesias from Argentina. Willy is without question an authority on application...
Although I believe there is a critical mass such that there can be too many people training in the room (i.e. Honbu on any given friday night), in...
Except he posted the notice of his departure on a public forum. Isn't the point of doing that to draw attention to it? Anyway, that was just...
Thanks Dale, that was exactly what I was looking for. I'll tell you why. Greg asked why the interest in one school versus another. Well, really...
Okay, how about a more simple question. What is the difference between the gyoku ryu and the togakure ryu? This shouldn't be such a difficulr...
There is a recent thread about what makes ninpo ninpo. Some of the comments were pretty apt. It made me think of one aspect of this year's theme...
I hadn't picked this comment up earlier. Isn't ninjutsu a combative martial art, as opposed to a sport? i.e. we learn to fight for real which is...
After every two hour session, we had a short debriefing where each particpant was asked to relate observations, personal or otherwise. A few come...
Oops sorry, reference made to another thread. I just return from a 4 day ninja camp where amongst other things, we did alot of live sword training.
Why not? Being aware or unaware of noise around you is a very big part of training. We did some cutting practice at the end of the said camp and...
Has nayone here ever done fatigue training as part of the ninjutsu training? How about in other types of training, like military? By fatigue...
My instructor has a disc of Taiko drumming that he occasioannly puts on during class if we are doing an excercise or the like. He also has the...
Argh!!!!! Left hand vs right hand. NO!!!!!!!! learn to swing it with your right hand and then swap to your left. Beware the one handed ninja!...
It is unfortunate that the politics have turned you off to the Bujinkan. But politics are everywhere, whether at the workplace or in the greater...
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I am really pleased by the responces to and amount of thought that went into the comments, most...
I saw there was a thread on what is a white belt. So here is the other side. What is a black belt in ninjutsu, in particular shodan? I'll...
I have been to Japan twice. Last december, on my own, and again in March with my sensei, who has an apartment in Noda. Bottom line, and it's been...
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