dippedappe Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 I wonder if Ninjas are still being used for their traditional purpose, or other purposes?Are Ninjas still being used for espionage and contract killing etc? Or is the profession nothing more than a sport now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manabimasho1 Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 I wonder if Ninjas are still being used for their traditional purpose, or other purposes?Are Ninjas still being used for espionage and contract killing etc? Or is the profession nothing more than a sport now? You will probably not be impressed at all and probably won't belive me but I have connections and I promise this story is true. In Japan and the mountains of Tibet they do train Ninjas from very early ages and even accept orphans into the programs when the child becomes about 25 or so they are set out on missions. The missions of course bring in money usualy and someone or company hires the services of Ninja and lately over the last 20 years I have heard startling rumors that almost 60% of the buisness that goes through is for contract spying on celebrities from all around the world. Yes Celebrity snap shots and if you think about it at fist it seems stupid, but what most people don't understand is if you can get one snap shot of just about any female celeb in thier underware or during a drinking eposide or sex its worth $40,000 american dollars and then on second thought you may be thinking.....wow easy money and no killing...where do i sign up. but seriously they do get recruited for photo spying and tracking celebrities alot, as for killings I have no idea. I would assume some high up company or mob bosses would go to them because I would. If you go to Hells Angels or some crazy crack house you never know who is gonna be a cop or is gonna run with the money. Not that I would ever kill or want anyone to be killed *coughs* ... hehe To become the greatest warrior, one needs to train beyond the physical and into the spiritual becoming supernatural. It is then that the warrior will know that he is indeed not the greatest, but just awakened.https://www.manabimasho.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adonis Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 I am skeptical of those claims. Even so the days of home made smoke bombs and such is overmodern day ninja's in my opinion would be like CIA Operatives, under cover law enforcement, and special operation military forces. Not much point in learning Ninjitsu most teachers either teach some form of martial arts and wear ninja gear andcall them selves ninja's or dojo's focus on the empty hand techniques of Ninjitsu called taijitsu. Just my opinion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goju_boi Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 i am totally with Karate25 on this,maybe some body guard knows ninjutsu/budo taijutsu,but other than that I will say no https://www.samuraimartialsports.com for your source of Karate,Kobudo,Aikido,And Kung-Fu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McBeth Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 I am skeptical of those claims. Even so the days of home made smoke bombs and such is overmodern day ninja's in my opinion would be like CIA Operatives, under cover law enforcement, and special operation military forces. Not much point in learning Ninjitsu most teachers either teach some form of martial arts and wear ninja gear andcall them selves ninja's or dojo's focus on the empty hand techniques of Ninjitsu called taijitsu. Just my opinionI think Karate25 hit this one on the mark. Traditional ninjas are extinct, just like traditional Roman soldiers and gladiators are no more. Doesn't mean people may not practice the art of ninjitsu, assuming the art promoted by Hatsumi and Hayes truly is an accurate reflection of the art at all. But I also feel CIA, ex-KGB operatives, and such are the modern ninjas of today.But if "ninjas" do exist in present day Japan, then they are probably hired by companies to steal plans or engage in reconnaissance for Japanese companies, not for assassinations. And they've turned in the black pjs for a business suit & tie and have become experts in laptop-jitsu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusticeZero Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Presuming Hatsumi etc.'s claims are true - and I have no reason to disbelieve them because it's pointless - the situation is along the lines of "Once upon a time, there were a group of people who did all sorts of romantic terrorist and criminal acts for reasons which were morally ambiguous. Many of them were trained in some particular offshoots of jujutsu. We studied their history, and we know a major jujutsu variant they were using. We'll teach it to you and show you their history. If you want to call us by that last group go ahead, but it's like calling practitioners of a museum about stone age culture who know how to do historical reenactments "cavemen". " "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dippedappe Posted July 30, 2005 Author Share Posted July 30, 2005 Thats a shame.I have seen some clips of some Ninjas of moder time. Training both the traditional weapons aswell as guns http://www.ninjitsu.com/.It's difficult for me to believe that they can't be used effectively for their original pursoses any longer. Kicks and punches aren't all they train after all.And about the hand-to-hand combat training they use. Is that just simple Karate, or is it a speciel style of it's own? It doesn't look like Karate to me, but that might be because they have so much acrobatics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusticeZero Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 It's difficult for me to believe that they can't be used effectively for their original pursoses any longer. Kicks and punches aren't all they train after all.Sure it's it's own thing. (a jujutsu variant, basically.) Sure, it works. But you know, there are people who can teach you how to shoot an english longbow, and a clothyard shaft is still very effective, but you don't see much, if any, demand in modern military forces for an archer, either. "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly." - Baleia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menjo Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 Thats a shame.I have seen some clips of some Ninjas of moder time. Training both the traditional weapons aswell as guns http://www.ninjitsu.com/.It's difficult for me to believe that they can't be used effectively for their original pursoses any longer. Kicks and punches aren't all they train after all.And about the hand-to-hand combat training they use. Is that just simple Karate, or is it a speciel style of it's own? It doesn't look like Karate to me, but that might be because they have so much acrobatics.Those arnt ninjas thats just some school for people with lots of money who want to have adventure with martial arts, they even say on some page at the bottom that they dont teach traditionaly, and its not karate that thier using either its there own stlye that they have, but one things for sure their not ninjas "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst"William Penn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enviroman Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 https://www.realultimatepower.netobviously ninja are still in existence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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