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I've been wondering if Hatsumi's Bujinkan school in Japan still teaches the the other aspects of Ninjutsu, etc such as the stealth, disappearing and acrobatic techniques of the art? Or if Hatsumi has ditched all that and gone to teaching Taijutsu and Weapons only? All the newer videos of Hatsumi I see is fighting only, so I'm wondering if I should make some visites to Hatsumi's school, or Hayes's or Van Donk's or a 4th school once I've reached Shodan to learn more about the none fighting aspects of the training. Anyone know?

Well no one said that if you are on the run from some thugs and you've been training Parkour, you would automatically have to get up on top of that large building and jump off it. And if you actually were surrounded on top of a building, would you then rather be off not having practiced Parkour?If you look at the clips linked here and other clips on Parkour you would see that it's not only jumping from building to building and make fancy flips off something. Theres plenty of useful maneuvers being shown. Such as running on walls. Getting over really high walls quickly etc. Many of the maneuvers I've seen in Parkour clips are some I can definitely see being put to good use where I live if I had to run. It doesn't have to be dangerous like jumping off a building or fancy like doing flips and such. And about the adrenaline. You know that in a fight, you might avoid that dagger coming towards you and you might not. Adrenaline can be a problem, but you will still be better off than someone who have not studied Martial Arts. Same with Parkour and escaping. Anyway. Adrenaline can work both ways. It can just as well be helpful to you.

Jackie Chan also comes to mind If you study Martial Arts, it's most likely because you want to become a Survivor. If you favor realistic self defense, you should strive to be ready for any situation that might occur. If you are only training to become better at hand-to-hand combat etc, then you may end up in a situation that you are not prepared for. You might end up in a situation where you cannot simply disable your opponents and will have to run instead. But then the opponents might be able to run faster than you. In my opinion, a MA school that is into realistic self defense should train everything that the students may experience, such as defense against someone who wields a gun or knife, mentality, learn awareness and how to act tough to avoid the conflict in the first place, how to be better escape your opponents and so on. Most MA schools I know of are satisfied with just learning how to punch, kick or grab your opponent and then perhaps do a little 5 minutes defense against knife training once every half year. I'm not saying that you need to learn how to do a fancy Butterfly Twist or anything like that, but to learn how to use your environment better can help you greatly both in a fight and when escaping a fight.

What are your thoughts on having Parkour and acrobatics in the training in a school that emphasis realistic selfdefense? Martial artists are often saying that it's best to run away. So why is almost no school helping students learn Parkour which is basically the art of fleeing.

I dont see how this can apply to the groin on men. I would never expect someone at training to actually hit my balls during a drill. You say it's not a problem to punch you in the solar eventhough I will also touch your breasts that way. But if we were talking about a kick to the groin drill, I would certainly hope that you would only indicate the kick to the groin, stopping it before it actually hits my balls. Just like I did with that girl, pulling the punch before it hit anything.

It's not so much avoiding to inflict pain on her. It's more the fact that I would be touching her privates.But it didn't seem to bother her when I did hit her breasts, (I was hoping I would be able to hit her solar without hitting the breasts) so I suppose it isn't as big a deal as I make of it. Anyway. It has only happened once. I doubt I will see that scenario again.

Aye' I've seen that before. Changed my views on Bruce Lee to the better. But that interviewer is an idiot. And what an unreal way to set your hair.

One day at training in Wing Tsun, I got a girl as training partner for a drill. The drill was a typical, she punch, I block, I strike to the Solarplexus. The problem was that I couldn't strike her without hitting her breasts. They were big and in the way. I didn't want her to think I was taking advantage of the situation, and I didn't know how to deal with this "problem" so I decided to stop my punch before my fist would enter that zone. I wonder what she was thinking when seeing her training partner's fist try to dodge her breasts. Might have been really weird if it was a grappling art instead. How do you deal with this?

Yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSt5DoehOH4And to be honest, it sucked big time.

Thats obvious. But in asking questions, I'll make sure that I will advance in case the teacher is teaching slowly. Making sure that I dont end up studying a long time with little advancement. I dont think it's a problem with learning new techniques when you still havent understood the other techniques you do know. It will all come in due time. Just because you havent understood a few movements in one section of a form doesn't mean that you will never understand it if you learn one more section. I am not only asking for new techniques. I'm also asking for improvement of the ones I already know. It's rare that I only ask one question to the teacher. And the basics will be learned eventually. Since you are doing them all the time in the lessons recieved. The teacher usually corrects you if you are doing something wrong.

If my questions are a problem, in any kind of way, it's probably in this way. I am not thirsty for new ranks. I'm thirsty for new techniques. I can see how that problem with getting sloppy basics, like Stances, can become the results of this. But I have always been in a hurry to learn this and that in things that interest me a lot. Such as MA . But I also learned from most of the schools I've been in, that if you dont take your training into your own hands (such as asking for more) you might end up advancing very very slowly. As an example of this is in the Shaolin school I was in a while ago. I saw some students who had been training in there for 3 years and they still hadn't learned the second form of the style. They were the ones that didn't ask questions.

Well. Once I was asking when I would qualify as an advanced practitioner, I was told "When you stop asking questions all the time". But the teachers and some of the students in that school were morons and I quit that school after a while. This interest in the martial art I study contributes to my relationship between me and my teacher I suppose. I have a way of making myself noticeable among the teachers with all these questions for sure. It just seems a bit unorthedox (and perhaps a bit annoying to some) since all the other students only rarely asks questions and I doing it all the time.

I've been wondering about this many times. I tend to ask questions a lot. After almost every lesson, when people are going home, I have some questions I need answers to or to learn something new. "Can you teach me this?" "Am I doing this right?" "Whats the next part of this form?" and so on. I rarely seem contempt with what they teach in a single lesson, so I wait till the lesson is over and everyone is going home, to ask the teachers for more. I am the only one I know who is like that. Am I too impatient? Is this a bad or a good thing?

I was unsure about where to post this thread. I wonder how the Ninjutsu training is being done nowadays. Im not talking about the Taijutsu or the weapon training. I mean the rest of the art. What do you learn today? Whats the stealthtraining like? Do you learn special techniques to run stealthy? To use the inviroment to be stealthy and so on and so forth? What do you learn besides the hand-to-hand and weapon combat, and how do you learn it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9EjF9Zlubg (Watch all 10 parts if you haven't already) I would rather have had the Wushu guy do a none-flying, single hit kick like the other contestants. I doubt that was his most damaging kick he knew. The most interesting part, to me, was with the power of the One-Inc-Punch, the speed of the Kung Fu punch over a snakes attack, and that deathblow the Ninja contestant did. I guess the Kung Fu/One-Inc punch technique is more to enable "ordinary" people to hit hard, since apparently there are ways to hit harder if you are stronger than your average ordinary Joe. What are your thoughts on these tests and the whole episode?