Bujinkan Dojo Ninjutsu, The Way Of The Ninja Warrior

Ninjutsu is the ancient martial art of the ninja's. It is a fighting style full of questions and mysteries, a source of mythe and a whole bunch of movies. Although a lot of people don't know exactly what ninjutsu really is, besides a lethal fighting style.

A ninja is defined as a "covert agent or mercenary of feudal Japan specializing in unorthodox arts of war." The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, as well as open combat in certain situations." Ninjutsu doesn't have a clear history because this martial art was meant to be practiced secretly. The object of the art was concealment, thus, the discipline follows the actual practice.

I have been training in the art of the ninja, for around 6 years, in the Bujinkan Ninpo Taijutsu budo ryo here in Belgium. And the very 1st thing i can say is that, the stuff you see in the movies are just a bunch of hype, fiction as it where. This has nothing to do with the real fighting style, except for some of the defensive techniques.

Ninjutsu thanks it's lethal name, because actually it is a combination of 8 other martial arts disciplines, such as samoerai, aikido, hapkido, jui jitsu, karate a kung fu, just to name a few. Ninjutsu holds two sorts of fighting styles, the unarmed and armed combat. Not just to attack and kill it's opponent, but above all to defend himself. The ninja is known as a cunning stealth killer, but what people do not know is the fact that ninjutsu is a defensive fighting style.

Being a Ninja and mastering the art of Ninjutsu requires much more than merely collecting a bunch of step-by-step "moves" that were written down in scrolls centuries ago. And yet, this is exactly where most students of the art seem to focus their training and goals.

The Ninja warrior's kamae, body/mind/spirit attitudes, or "postures," comprise one of the skills sets that are considered to be the building blocks of the Ninja's arsenal. The point of the training is that they ninja student learns to focus on options, rather than set techniques. He or she also focuses on precision, and matching just the right tool or weapon to the target in order to maximize power and damage with each blow to his opponent's body

There is temptation to experiment with techniques while they are first being learned. Bujinkan Ninjutsu was borne out of combat. This means that ineffective techniques literally died on the battlefield. This concept is somewhat foreign to studying martial arts in modern times since most practitioners aren't constantly involved in combat. However, realize that most of these techniques were constantly being used in warfare. This means if a soldier died in battle, the technique also died. This was the importance of sticking to the technique as it was being learned -- to fully understand it's implications

Sensei Masaki Haasumi is the head of the bijinkan dojo, constructed out of 4 ninja families in ancient japanese time, he is the one we have to thank, since he brought ninjutsu to the masses and even with his age, the man still travels around the world to teach it's pupils the art of ninjutsu. Even i had the pain and pleasure to meet him. And learn the several techniques of armed fighting.

I am not going to explain the weapons on this hub, since most of them are already known, and another hubber has made a complete article about them.

Ninja training, at least as we did it consist of a few features:

• warm up: like rolling, jumping, climbing. 
• unarmed training: like you can see in the movies on this hub
• armed training: with weapons like the Bo, tanto, kenbo, samourai sword, nun chuks and shurikens, etc,...
• Pain training: pain is all in the mind, so you hit a brick wall repetedly, or a 180 pound guy stands on your chest.

In the summer normally you train outside, and acquire the skills of stealth, like climbing walls, trees, trowing shurikens and other fighting style training.

So if this might be something for you, be sure to look at the video's, the'll grant you lot's of info about bujinkan ninjutsu.

Shikin Haramitso daikomio, Aregato no chemas!