Martial Arts/Ninja camp in Thailand

[isshinryu5toforever]

As far as I know, there is not a single person that can authentically prove their lineage in ninjitsu without a lot of leaps of faith. The last person who could authenticate his claims died nearly 50 years ago. This looks like a money making thing.

As i believe the above posters have touched on, couldn't this be said about many martial artists. There are many martial artists that even though have no lineage to any significant founder of that art, have through research started practicing an art in the same tradition as its founders. I don't see how you can discredit a person for the soul fact that they cannot trace their lineage back to a certain person.

That's true when you're talking about most martial arts in general. Taekwondo and Tangsoodo's claims have been talked about on here extensively. Okinawan systems can't go back farther than say 1880 or so. When you're talking about authentic Japanese koryu though, you have a different argument.

If you want to claim a link to true Japanese koryu arts you need to have solid documentation. All of the currently recognized arts do. There's a pretty good list here: http://www.koryu.com/guide/ryuguide.html

[moriniuk]

I've never heard about this school before but I have heard of a Chinese Kung Fu live in camp in the north of Thailand.

As for asking someone who lives in Thailand about this camp. There's a good chance that people living less than 100m away from it will not even know it's there. Not because it's a clandestine ninja camp, but because that's what it's like in Thailand. I've looked for Thai Boxing camps there before and asked locals where they are in Thai language and unless you're virtually on top of the place, nobody knows.