| Did You Watch Ninja Training Movies When You | | | | their opponents easier. |
| Were A Kid? | | | | The most common weapon for ninja, and also the |
| Do you still remember yourself clad with a ninja outfit | | | | samurai, is the sword. The difference though is the |
| and pretend you were a ninja in training? Did you | | | | ninja's sword is known as a ninja-to and is slightly |
| imagine yourself doing deadly ninjutsu techniques? | | | | shorter than of the samurai's katana. They use it to |
| Have you ever wanted to go to Japan for ninja | | | | slash a limb or any body part or stab an opponent to |
| training, and learn ninjutsu techniques? | | | | death. |
| Ninja Training techniques are combination of martial | | | | Another common ninja weapon we usually see in ninja |
| arts, war techniques, and tactics commonly practiced | | | | movies is the shuko which are spiked claw that helps |
| by ninjas in their training. A ninja is one who is an | | | | them climb faster. A poison dart is also used, as a ninja |
| expert in different kinds of martial arts like the art of | | | | usually carry them in their mouths so when the |
| ninjutsu. There is no known exact origin of ninjas but it | | | | situation calls for the enemy to be killed it would just be |
| is believed that they were trained rigidly to do | | | | so easy to give their opponents a peaceful death. The |
| espionage and assassination jobs to stop chaos or | | | | female ninja, called kunoichi, usually carry them in their |
| maybe just to perform a job vested on them by their | | | | hair. Kakute is a ring dipped in poison. The poisoned ring |
| rulers. | | | | is used to strangle an opponent to death leaving lesser |
| Typically, ninjas are labeled as assassins but they | | | | evidence. The bow and arrow is used both by the |
| were in fact were honorable warriors, and experts in | | | | ninja and samurai, they could be long or short bows |
| all forms of combat. They move as fast and as | | | | dipped in poison. |
| discreet as the wind, this is taught to them during their | | | | Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is martial art that originated in |
| training, therefore a ninja was known to be one who | | | | Japan to preserve samurai and ninja training, but now it |
| can move almost being unseen. Ninja training | | | | is being taught in different parts of the world including |
| specialized in the art of enduring and persevering | | | | the United States. Bujinkan's Ninja training methods |
| through the most difficult conditions. As a matter of | | | | may seem rigid and painstaking but it is rewarded by |
| fact, one translation of ninja known as Shinobi literally | | | | an overwhelming sense of achievement. It is not |
| means Heart over Blade. The concept of Shinobi is to | | | | enough to know the best ninja techniques or be the |
| keep going, even when the enemy has a blade over | | | | best in handling weapons, what is important is the kind |
| your heart, and to never give up! | | | | of person you will turn out to be when you will finally |
| Talking about servants, warriors and the war | | | | be called a real NINJA! |
| techniques, it would be unfair to mention the samurai. | | | | For aspiring ninja warriors remember this philosophy |
| The Samurai, when translated means to serve thus in | | | | from the great Ninja master, Masaaki Hatsumi Sensei: |
| a real sense it is either serving his lord or master or | | | | When properly applied, the kamae reflects the ninja's |
| serving one's own country. For one to become an | | | | heart. This means that our physical nature conforms to |
| effective server of the lord and nation one should be | | | | our intentions, and there is no division between our |
| educated with fighting tactics and that includes | | | | interior and exterior aspects. This state of integrated |
| expertise in martial arts. | | | | mind and body action is totally natural, and can be |
| As mentioned earlier, ninjutsu is the art of teaching | | | | observed readily in the movements of animals as they |
| combat techniques, tactics, strategies, and martial arts | | | | interact with their environment. Only human beings |
| helpful to win a war. One of the last ninja training | | | | seem to develop the need to be trained in natural |
| schools in Japan that still preserves ninja martial is the | | | | body motion. |
| Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu founded by Dr. Masaaki | | | | Put in mind that one should not just undergo the rigid |
| Hatsumi Soke. In the Bujinkan School, one is taught | | | | ninja training just because they find it cool, there is |
| about bone breaking, muscle and joint dislocation of the | | | | more to being a ninja. Remember that in history, ninjas |
| opponent, ground fighting, and proper handling of | | | | were warriors and servants and you could still be now. |
| traditional and modern ninja weapons to become a | | | | Do you want to start in your ninja training? Can't wait |
| Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu Ninja. Being expert in martial | | | | to become a certified ninja? |
| arts, ninjas also have weapons that they use to defeat | | | | |