Funny Ninja Stories

JohnnyS · May 8, 2003

These have been posted on MMA.tv in the Australasia section, I thought it was funny as I used to train at Hanger4.

Posted by Obesquiem:

Would have been about 2 years ago at Hangar 4. This guy rings up and claims to be a ninjitsu master about to grade a senior student to black belt. He explains that as part of the grading he would like to judge his skill against another style, BJJ. He asks if they come down after class would any of our guys roll with him, BJJ rules. We invited him to attend anytime.

Following Monday night, about 10 minutes after class, phone rings, it's the ninja master ringing from the carpark on his mobile.

Tyrone goes out to meet them, they are dressed in full ninja uniforms, hoods, tabi's, with the lot. The ninja master tells Ty "If anybody laughs at us, there will be trouble!".

There are about 20 students in the Hangar at the time.

They come in and the master explains that the student is not permitted to speak at any time.

His first experience was a pretty painless triangle but he took a really long time to tap and nearly went out? Then he gets double legged and armbarred smoothly by another white belt. The guy takes his hood off at this point as he can't see and it is too hot. At about the same time, the master, with hood still on tight, fell over a chair backwards, very embarrassing. He got up and removed his hood also.

To everyone's suprise, both guys wouldn't have been 21 years old?!?!!

The room is exchanging blank looks and taking the whole thing a lot less seriously?!?!

The master asked if he could select the student for his guy to roll with the final time. We agreed but to our disappointment, the master selected one of the kids, a 12 year old boy who showed heart and promise and was allowed to train with the adults. The boy at once accepted despite the instructors forbidding the match. In the end it was agreed and the two engaged, the boy quickly took his back escaping a desperate headlock and choked the would be ninja in about 20 seconds flat. What a hero. The Hangar went a little crazy!!!

The ninja student is crying openly at this point and after a short thank you, they leave but ask if they can return and attend classes, of course they never did.

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This is not a dojo challenge story, but it was in the 80's (maybe 86) and ninjutsu was gaining a reputation of being the deadliest art. I was training ju-jitsu.

We went up to Brisbane for an all-styles martial arts competition. It was a little like the amateur shoot fighting, no head contact, can't remember if it was points based or not.

The ninjas were doing some sought of monkey style, and they held their hands like claws and were always trying to scratch the face. As soon as they were taken down they would go straight for the eyes.

There was a big commotion because they refused to play by the rules, and the masters just laughed. Instead of banning them, they decided to up the level. And the ju-jitsu guys started doing some real nasty throws, dumping the guys on their heads, and crashing onto their ribs. I think a few joints may have been damaged that day.

P.S. The Karate guys remained respectful the whole time.

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About 16-17 years ago I trained in Ninjitsu for about four years. The instructor I had was tough and mean but highly skilled, and we never followed the other clubs in things like crawling alond roads, running on top of fences (pretending you have a sword on your back) and climbing up trees when people were near (this is all true), we just trained in combat drills whilst all the other affiliated clubs did the above.

In anycase, near the end of my training with this style, a bunch of us (supposedly the best students of each club) had been required to enter an all styles points tournament (non contact). When we got to the tournament, we were all met by the head of the organisation (who was flanked by his four body guards (to protect you from him, not him from you)) instructed all the students that we must knockout our opponent and get disqualified (remember a non contact tournament). After a couple of students conducted full contact strikes on their oppenants, the head instructor went around yelling to people about the strength of his style of ninjitsu. Supprosingly, most of his students never came back after that.

Another funny thing was during the weapons kata section of the tournament, one of the body guards (they called themselves knights)was doing a sword kata (with a live blade katana and did a twirling move near his head. All of a sudden, he stopped and grabbed his ear. On the floor about 10 feet in front of him was his left ear. the sword got to close to his dead and having rather large ears as he did, it came straight off. Oh yeah, I have this on video tape and sent it into Australias funniest home video but they didnt show it. You had to be their.