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Training To Be a Ninja
Author: shinobi-ninja
Training To Be a Ninja in Every Part of Your Life!
This is the first video from my ninjutsu Black Belt Course for a ninja in training. It talks about the physical training but there is so much more to your training to be a ninja.
Training To Be A Ninja
Ninjutsu has been found to be the most effective martial art in the world. It works on scientific principles. As a ninja in training you will learn physics, anatomy and psychology. Ninja training is truly a science.
Science implies that there are formulas and principles that can be applied to get predictable results. This is absolutley true in ninjutsu. Ninjutsu and its ninja training teaches you the understanding and application of 45 degree angles to move minimally and effortlessly out of danger. These scientific angles also put you in the perfect postition in relation to your opponent to take advantage of their vulnerabilities.
Work the formula and principle, get the predictable result.
It is also a science in that you do experiments. In fact, if you approach your ninja training as a series of experiments you will advance faster and learn better. I tell my students training to be a ninja in my ninjutsu school to think about the dojo as a “Life Skills Laboratory”. If you can believe that everything you do is an experiement then it lowers frustration and sets you up to be more aware.
It allows you to:
- Observe yourself
- Observe your opponent
- Observe the interaction
- Observe your emotions
- Observe your thoughts
If you approach your training to be a ninja in this way you will develop a keen insight into youself and others. This is key for a ninja oin training. It is the heart of ninjutsu. Some of the goals for a ninja in training is self-actualization, enlightenment and perfection of self. Observation and learning about yourself and people in general gives you ultimate power (in a good way).
But ninjutsu is also an art
I can teach you all the science and principles but I can’t make you “own” them. By owning them I mean learning and understanding ninjutsu in a way that it becomes you. Someone told me when I began training to be a ninja that “At first you do ninjutsu, and later ninjutsu does you“.
I thought “Yeah, he really likes this stuff and wants to hook me on the mystical mumbo jumbo”. Well, as a ninja in training I started doing ninjutsu. After about 3 or 4 years I started noticeing something odd. I was not bumping into things much anymore. I started “knowing things” that I shouldn’t be abe to know. I would side step just in time. As I moved through a crowd they would magically make way for me to pass.
I started to do things in the ninjutsu school that I couldn’t explain. One of my ninjas in training would throw a punch and miss my face. At first I thought they were just being respectful. But I would ask them to make sure they punch right at my face. They would miss. That’s when I started to understand that the art was “doing me”. I began to be able to teach others to do the same thing, much to their surprise.
Training to be a ninja is a whole experience. Ninjutsu is about your body, your mind and your spirit (whatever you percieve that to be). As a ninja in training you will experiment, observe, apply, learn and surprise and amaze yourself.
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The ninja art is legend is steeped in mystery
The ninja practiced an art that included every aspsect of their lives. The ninja studied human behavior, words, actions, movement and thoughts. They were considered wizards or demons. Really, the ninja had learned secrets of how life works. Then they used these ninja secrets to bend the world to serve them.
They had ilttle use for riches. Basically they were farmers. They understood that the mindless search for wealth was a mental sickness. In fact, this sickness could be used to get results. The ninja could use words then to their advantage. They could say things to people who had this “sickness” and manipulate them to behave as the ninja wanted.
Ninja Art of Peace
The ninja art was not just punching and kicking, invisibility and wall climbing. The real ninja art was learning the ninja secrets of how people and nature really worked. The ninja could then utilize these secrets and the “ninja words” to make sure that their village, their families and their lives could be safer and more peaceful. Peace was the real ninja secret. They learned to manipulate the world to create peace for their village.
The ninja started out as a people who wanted to be left alone to raise their families and practice their religion in peace. The Emperor wanted everyone to be subject to his will and sent the samurai to enforce it. The ninja kept trying to move further into the widerness. But they kept being persecuted by the armies of the Emperor.
Because they were in nature, away from the distractions of major cities and had a great respect for the nature they lived in, they were able to learn by observing. They observed nature, people and animals to learn the ninja secrets that made them legendary. For hundreds of years they only used their ninja art and ninja secrets to protect themselves, their families and their villages.
Ninja Words
There are ninja words that hold infinite power and can profoundly change your life and the world we live in. The ninja words you really need to learn are:
- Perseverance
- Self sufficiency
- Personal power
- Intuition
- Community
- Vision
These are the critical to learn how to be ninja. To learn the ninja secrets you also need to learn ninja words like:
- Ganseki
- Gyaku
- Kihon Happo
- Shomitsu
- Taijutsu
- Nagare
- Koppojutsu
These are the technical ninja words for principles and techniques of the physical ninja art.
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Testing for my godan was truly amazing
I tested for my Godan (fifth degree) ranks in ninjutsu, and passed! It was truly amazing. They would not let you video tape it but I found this video of others taking the “sakki godan test”. Make sure you take a few minutes to watch it! I think you’ll like it.
Be prepared to see some folks get whacked on the head. These people did not pass the test. To pass you must roll out of the way after the seord begins its cut but before it strikes you.
It seems impossible. But you learn to feel energy and intention as you practice and progress in this ninja martial art. The only way to pass the test (and you see this in the people who actually pass the sakki test) is to have a clear and still mind. Only when you get out of your own way can you get out of harm’s way.
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Ninjutsu in Japan is awesome!
(watch our arrival video below)
We did ninjutsu training for 10 days in Japan with Grandmaster Maasaki Hatsumi and his top teachers. Hatsumi sensei is THE ninjutsu authority. They all shared some very sneaky and powerful ninjutsu secrets. They teach to the 15th degrees but everyone got somethng at their own level.
This years ninjutsu Japan trip was great on so many levels.
- Being in the home dojo of the ninja grandmaster
- Learning ninjutsu with Hatsumi sensei
- Training with the Shihan
- Learning ninjutsu technique details and secrets
- Training with ninjutsu practioners from Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Australia and literally all over the world
- Being immersed in Japanese culture
- And don’t forget the sushi!
It was particulary important this year because no one really knows how much longer Hatsumi sensei will be teaching ninjutsu. He is a true gift to us and a singular gem. No one else has his knowledge and experience in ninjutsu. You need to make sure you go for your own ninjutsu in Japan experience with Hatsumi sensei, the source of all ninjutsu knowledge.
Some people I have talked with are concerned with traveling to Japan and getting around there. It is really not that bad. In fact, it is a ton of fun. The Japanese are polite and orderly. They tend to be forgiving of foreigners and are quite helpful. There is english on many signs and a good train/subway map will get you where you need to go.
Watch the video below. It is us arriving and getting to the hombu dojo. You will see that it is pretty easy.
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How To Be Ninja
Author: shinobi-ninja
When I tell people that I teach ninjutsu people want to know “how to be ninja”.
That is a question that I get asked a lot. It often comes as a joke, just before a loud, “Hyyya!” with a really bad attempt at a karate chop. They think there are secret ninja words that can make them invisible or cause their opponents to run in fear for their lives. This is not how to become a ninja.
I can’t really blame them for their ignorance. Its like most things in our corporate/media formed world. People think that when you learn how to be ninja you wear black clothes and sneak around “taking people out.” If they really wanted to know how to be a ninja all they have to do is find a good ninjutsu school that has a direct lineage to Massaki Hatsumi and enroll.
To learn how to be a ninja really means to follow a discipline that dates back 900 years. To learn how to become a ninja means committing to discovering the powerful parts of yourself that society has buried with all the training on how to be mediocre. When you learn how to be a ninja you understand that the powers that be in the world have a strong interest in making the population believe in the limitations that keep them dependant on the powers that be for the basics, and for life itself!
So part of learning how to become a ninja is understanding that you live in a community, a village. As a member of that village you have an obligation to add to, and not subtract from, that village. In todays society we have become disconnected from each other, We have learned to faction ourselves off. So now we have a society that has no real sense of mutual responsibility.
My friends and I were watching video of the horiffic earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. In some of those videos it showed food stores. There were long lines of people waiting for rice, water and just the basics to live. They stood patiently for their turn. They understood that they were all in it together.
I just imagine what that would be like if it happened here in the states. I spent the winter in Michigan. There was a forecast for 8 to 10 inches of snow overnight. On my way home I stopped to pick up a box of cereal. The shelves were bare of bread, milk, eggs and many other supplies.
I asked the cashier why they were so low. She looked very worn out. She said that ater 5 o’clock the place was swamped with people frantically trying to get food, just in case they couldn’t get out for a day or two. She also told me that people were shoving and complaining about everything. They were rude. They were mean. They had lost their compassion and apparently, their minds.
The Japanese people understand a very basic concept. They understand that strong individuals make strong communities. The ninja were a poor and persecuted subset of that culture. They not only understood the concept of strong indiviuals equal a strong village, they leveraged it to become the most feared and respected warriors in Japan. And they have become legends throughout the world.
Become a ninja
Not everyone will want to learn to how to be a ninja. They won’t see the value of learning the techniques and principles for being truly successful and self-actualized. To become a ninja you need to learn them, how to do them, how to master them and how to teach them. It is our obligation to further the lineage. We need to spread the training and opportunity to learn how to become a ninja, to learn and master the ninja words and how to be a ninja.
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Question: If you are a small female but want to learn a martial art to protect yourself is ninjutsu (the ninja martial art) a good choice? I’ve heard that a teacher who has trained in ninjutsu with masaaki hatsumi would be good!
Answer:
Ninjutsu is, in my opinion, the very best women’s self defense martial art for a female. It is based on scientific positioning, balance and strategy.
In fact, in many ways if you are smaller than your attacker you have many advantages in ninjutsu.
Another advantage is the ground defense that has always been a part of ninjutsu. There is a complete ground fighting system that is part of this art, and has been for hundreds of years!
And yes, I would recommend that you learn from someone who has a connection to a teacher that has trained directly with Masaaki Hatsumi.
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