how do you become a ninja??

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Ninja were among the first to use rifles of any kind. Oda Nobunaga used firearms, so the ninja picked it up and became excellent gunslingers and riflemen, something most so-called ninja experts don't know. Monkeyninja, your defenition of ninja is different from mine. Ninja and shinobi are two different things. Ninja live by codes of honor, and shinobi live only as mercenaries. They have no ethics, and will accept any job given. Ninja obey their clan headmasters and will carry out orders based on morality and obedience.

 

Ashida Kim has been able to teach Ninjutsu because Iga and Koga are both extinct lineages. The clans are both dead, and their arts are left to the chronicles. Anyone who wishes may teach these, providing they are approved by affiliated clans. I do not know what type of ninja you refer to, but what I know of ninja, I know from martial historians, Taijutsu practitioners, and 1200 years of Chinese and Japanese history.

 

Being a mercenary is not the same as being a ninja. The ninja are a certain group of people, not a general term for spies/assassins. The ninja also learned several healing arts, but only to assist them in their infiltrations. Ninja are simply not the type of folks who go around helping people in need and such. Someone has been watching too much Iron Monkey and Ninja Scroll.

 

Ninja NEVER make threats, NEVER claim to be ninja, and NEVER say so. For example, you know the fool who made RealUltimatePower.net? I found him on his message boards, tracked his ISP (AT&T) and found him. He hangs out at the Wendy's on Orchard Street in Boise, Idaho, and has a friend who helped make the layout for the site, Richard or something. By tracking him down, am I a ninja? No. Would a job like this be within a ninja's scope? Yes. Btw, realultimatepower.net is a joke. The kid's not that stupid, though he's not too bright either...

 

 

[MonkeyNinja]

To all,

 

Please forgive my brashness last night. There has been way too many people making threats towards my Grandmaster. When that happens, even if it may be just passing comment, I tend to turn into a huge Guard-Dog.

 

There has evenbeen numerous death threats aginst him. He is like a big brother to me, and I can and will defend him. The same goes for my young students.

 

Ninjitsu is all too often misunderstood, and hundreds, upon thousands arguements have came up all over the world. In numerous places(chat rooms, bars, schools, etc.)

 

Again, I apologize for defensiveness. But I will not allow anyone, if and when I can , to make such comments that was made.

 

I stated my case. I may be wrong, on some things. For even though I do have a blackbelt, I'm STILL A STUDENT!

 

Well, my fellow monkeys are hooting for me. You all have great night. Keep studying taikubo-do. Hopefully one day you and I can sit done have a cup of latte' and a calzone. And we can come to meeting of minds, perhaps we can learn much from other. Or at worst, we can agree to disagree.

 

Live Free, Die Well

 

MonkeyNinja

[BlueDragon1981]

Do you really know what a true ninja is? Its not just knowing the style. The history of the ninja is even clouded so do we really know about these assassians.

[BlueDragon1981]

Do you really know what a true ninja is? Its not just knowing the style. The history of the ninja is even clouded so do we really know about these assassians.

 

 

[Don Gwinn]

Several of you need to meditate upon the importance of a sense of humor.

 

 

RealUltimatePower is a joke? Well. . . .yeah.

 

I haven't seen anyone point out that MonkeyNinja is kidding, either, but it's pretty obvious.

 

 

[TigerKorea]

i want to become a killer that's all, you don't need to be a ninja it is all bullshhit. well why do you want to be a ninja just live quite

[Phrost]

If you want to be a "ninja" then here's what you do:

 

1. Join the Army.

 

2. Join Special Forces.

 

3. Network yourself a few contacts that will help you get the training you need.

 

4. Start doing wetworks.

 

Today's equivalent of the Ninja does not run around with split-toed shoes in black pajamas with a sword; they use a Browning .50 Cal sniper rifle and C-4.

 

 

[Zin-Ju]

solid snake style

 

 

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Phrost, that's what I'm saying. Not anyone is a ninja. There are still ninja, most likely. They have been using guns longer than Europeans knew guns existed! Ninja in the 1920s were better equipped than Chicago mobsters, as became obvious in that massacre in the capital of Mongolia, can't spell the damn name, back in 1926. Anyway, some Chicago mobsters got into a bit of a brawl with the yakuza, and they sent in shinobi who killed all the mobsters in less than thirty minutes, heavily armed as they were. People think ninja are still using tanto and shiruken. They can, but they adapt and use any technology available. They're even taught to hack into major networks, hotwire vehicles, and jam electronic transmissions, if Japanese reports are reliable.

 

Basically, to answer the original question, How do I become a ninja?, you have to be born as one. You can be a mercenary, or marine, or whatever, and live better than a shinobi ever would, but being a ninja is far out of the reach of most people.

 

 

[Kensai]

I ninja is some one who practices Ninjutsu.

 

Simple

 

Thanks

 

Chris