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the spear thats the only weapon i feel really proficient in ooo no the shinobigatana lots of hidden places for weapons and the hadle usally have a hidden blade and sometimes the blade is a saw

ima tall guy with long arms and ill tell you reach has its advantages but with close fighting if you only have reach youy are dead, i was lucky enough though to have friends who were shorter and my current sensei who taught me how to fight a shorter person (my first kung fu would drill me into being able to fight a smaller person) i will say still today i fear the shorter guy but im better suited due to training than other guys my size or taller, i just recnetly noticed that.

lol tea thats true

if u do a general serch for ninja or a book by Hatsumi soke or Tanemura they usally have info on it im just telling u what they told me in japan i dunno if it was true or not cause also shinobi wore mask in the image of tengu to scare the opposition

the fight scenes were awsome Jet li did a good job simulating the style (Lost Track) a really good story too

well at one point ppl in japan had myths that ninja were decendent of tengu cause that they had "magical Powers" and could "fly"

yea shinobi = Ninja they just have different meanings at times in ancient japan ninja's we even called tengu

well i dont do randori much but is street application and even randori its self ive been successful so i dont think its neccessary i know ppl is the same boat as me but for some ppl they may need it i dunno everyone is different and learn differently

I just remebered a time i was doing Muto dori (unarmed against a sword) with a friend and due to training with the weighted chain i was ables to use my job id that has a littte like rope thiningy on it to tie his hands up out of instinct non the less we were all schocked if you do think about it and train your body will naturally see anything is a weapon

the pole arms made me drool so cool yea that was a great show yea with my friends who do other weapons arts play/spar its weird they started before me but im taught and trained in more stuff so i have the advantage that freaked me out

well the reason higher ranks do randori and lower ranks dont is because thay dont want people to get hurt and they have a better understanding of the techs so they known how to take the fall.... im not totally agreed that because other grappling arts have randori that they will always lose sometimes the best ppl doing even spar against other arts and randori is a controlled situation where as a real comfrotation is uncontrolible im not knock randori i just say to each their own

The Unfettered Mind was written by Takuan Soho. I highly reccommend this one. It is good for people who think too much . The book of 5 rings is another standard that all should read. Also don't forget the Art of War. This book is not just about strategy but human nature and I find it amazing how undated its concepts are and how it still applies today. yes thank you i like to mention the Grandmasters book of Ninja training by Massaki Hatsumi its different cause its just a bunch of conversations with him and his senior students pretty kool, oo and another one is kung fu for girls it has nothing pretty just brutal techs lol

well i think there are ways to look at it there arepresure points, blows that do outside damage and blows that strike 3in in to the body all thre are effective but each has their place pressure points in my oppinion are more about body compliance and having a good understanding of the body in general. Outside damage (like broken noses, busted eyes etc.) in more about training and doing it hard to naturally hit those outside vital points.(personally i perfer this) and thenthere is the aiming 3ins (musashi talks about punching thru the opponent) which requires training and accurate understanding of the opponents body and your own and like the second one is faster more reliable cause hey you miss by a inch there is still also a chance to do outside damage but can be paifull cause its unexpected that getting hit like that would hurt but like i said each has its place against a trained person u want to have other options than just pressure point fighting (not that i think its bad actually i like the idea) or a person who senses are dulled by drugs but this is my opinion and by no means i am an authority

kool i knew all that toilet hugging i did that night was for something Congras

Thanks Bushido Man me and other friends from my dojo were very interested in it after watching about it on the history Ch it showed me my ignorance on medieval martial arts i remeber one time i was sparring with my friends one takes kenjutsu another took kendo it was so fun we all learned something

i totally agree with that fully the thing is martial arts were not always with buddhism it just so happens that the two coincide with each other and compliment each other very well other martial arts sometimes blend with other religions, some CMA go well with Taoism, Some Japanese with shinto i dont think its necesarry but on a fundemental it's about violence but on a higher level its about not fighting cause there is no reason to so like y2_sub said i think the spiritual and mental values are the same

The Unfeather mind ill get the author later great book on martial art mentality and how a warrior should conduct themselves

kool thanks for the info ppl

i wanted to learn bo after seeing kung fu movies (esspecially Jet li, even though i was always given the spear even in my current art), the katana my friends were training and sparring with it and i was like Man thats kool all the other weapons are apart of the curriculum

this is gonna sound like a crazy question but can they take good hits with the bokken cause lately ive been destroying Bo's (guess my cutting is getting better) and my sensei gave me the hw to look for a good place to by bo's

well in japan its a common place when greeting a person or saying bye you bow but its usally slight i think it depends on the culture in my dojo it depends we do more of a japanese we r friends bow

i love the wing ghung guy he is just standing there waiting for his chance i agree with ps1 that guy seemed to throw alot of pointles kicks and didnt change his tactics after seeing it wasnt working i wounder how long he has been doing Kick boxing

Does anyone know anywhere that i can buy a bo jo or hanbo that is very durable

Maybe your instructures are trying to leave your training more in your hands so u can figure it out for yourself causing you to train harder

Oh man u read my mind, yea the horse stance is designed the stregthen your legs its like exercising where your just have to push yourself and with it comes great results