Yoshimitsu

Thanks for the sites. After talking with Wolverine for a bit and getting an opinion from another...neutral martial artist has made me rethink my stance on this. It is said that one little negative can undo a lot of positive. This is a little thing that can't really be proved either way, but it ate at me basically all day today. It's something like what happens at school. I'm sure there are a good majority of people at my school who have good things to say about me, but I am also sure there is another group who despise me. So basically I'm staying with my art for 2 reasons: I like the art itself for one thing. The second reason is that you can't always believe what you hear and what you read. PS: Special shout-out to WolverineGuy for his take on this. Thanks

Well right now I'm training under one of his old students, and although they have a fallout from time to time he speaks highly of him. I personally have never met the man as he does not live anywhere around here. The only person other than my sensei that I know has met him is a former student who sparred him and as I understand it got worked over pretty well, but that's it and doesn't really matter much. I did just now find an article mentioning the Saiga ryu, but that's also not very informative only confirming that it was a Buddhist-ryu. Here are some other little things that might help: We don't use belts which apparently is weird, we use sashes instead. Also in the back of my manual that I own there is the Bushido code, a thing we are to learn. I'm not sure but isn't that a samurai thing? BTW the forum I got that off of was a hyperboard forum and I was dumb enough NOT to bookmark it so it might take me awhile to find it again. Thanks for the help guys, you are the first forum to actually respond, lol. From what I understand Konigun Ninjutsu is something of a contraversey to say the least.

First and foremost I'd like to say hi to everyone at the forums. As you can guys I'm new here but hopefully you'll see me around here more often than not. Anyways let me get to my question. I've been practicing Konigun Ninjutsu for almost a year now. I had never really wanted to research much about my art as I had the training manual and that was fine. Today however with nothing to do I decided to do a little searching and I found several disheartening things. The first thing thing I found was a post made by an anonymous poster at a forum saying that my art was something made-up, that the Shidoshi (director) is a con-man. This literally made my stomach lurch. The second thing I found was that Konigun Ninjutsu isn't listed hardly anywhere, only a few places and it's official website. So I've made myself a little predicament. As I understand it my art was created in Kyushu, some islands off the coast of Japan. According to some sources though there are quite a few ryu's of Ninjutsu sects that either died out or no one really knows about. I do not want to be a part of a made-up martial art, which is why I'm typing this. I need anyone with knowledge of Ninjutsu to help me out and clarify things for me, perhaps setting records straight. So if anyone with Ninjutsu knowledge help me out here? Any kind of info would be good. If you know of Konigun Ninjutsu please post here, whether you think it a scam or a legit art I will still appreciate your opinions. Thanks