obiwancanuck (October 9, 2008 at 12:54 am)

Oh, and as for your snide comment about my posting difficulties... dude, do you really have nothing better to do than make assinine remarks about issues totally unrelated to you??? I was having a decent chat with nicerebound, had a problem due to some technical glitch, then you show up with some cheap-shot for the sake of being a jackass. nicerebound and I were having a civilized conversation, not just rude or stupid comments, then you butt in with some dumbass comment to stir it up again.

obiwancanuck (October 9, 2008 at 12:46 am)

Nowhere did I say it was COMPLETELY practical, slapupchrist. I just said it wasn't completely IMPRACTICAL. In fact, if you read my posts carefully you might have noticed I said what works I would use, what wouldn't would be discarded. Plus I was saying to nicerebound that a lot of high-ranking bujinkan sensei add other arts to what they teach. Whether this is because they think the art needs to be supplemented, I don't know - it was my opinion only.

NinpoTaijutsuShinobi (October 8, 2008 at 4:07 am)

Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is an amazing martial art. I've trained in many martial arts and none of them are nearly as effective as Ninpo. Anyone who says Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu isn't effective is ignorant and has probably never trained with a good shidoshi. MMA, Muay Thai, BJJ, and whatever arts art "in", have nothing on us. Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu is the last complete martial art and the only real Ninjutsu. These arts haven't survived 1000 years because it's ineffective. Ninpo Taijutsu is the best!

Zhi8606 (October 8, 2008 at 3:15 am)

Basically I think ninjustu isn't necessarily a cataloged art where everything is black in white in its techniques, but its principles of efficiency, well-roundness in all aspects of fighting and anything goes are worth adapting to any fighting style.

PKTO92 (October 8, 2008 at 1:03 am)

This is only the martial arts aspect of ninjutsu, there is much more. Like knowing your surrounding, geography, botany, and meteorology. Espionage, Stealth, survival, so much more to ninjutsu than this video portrays.Now I think this is a good video, but only a small portion of the art. Although most bujinkan schools are not going to teach espionage...

slapupchrist (October 7, 2008 at 10:56 pm)

You just type in the letters at the bottom of the screen, obiwancanuck. It really is very simple.

slapupchrist (October 7, 2008 at 10:55 pm)

obiwancanuck, are you seriously asking us to believe that Bujinkan is completely practical??? You must be fucking kidding us! I mean, take the lunge punch, for example, or the fact that uke just stands there whilst you do your thing, or way you practice applying omote and ura gyaku from a grab, etc, etc. Mate, you have got absolutely no idea what you are talking about! You're in la la land!!!

nicerebound (October 7, 2008 at 1:55 pm)

ninjutsu really has nothing to offer that isn't better addressed by a more practical and proven combat sport.striking - take various forms of kickboxinggrappling - wrestling and bjj far superioreven swords - take kendo do the real thingcompeting makes you better, tests your skills, weeds out the weak etc.if you can't hack it in a combat sport, fighting aint for you, so avoid it (not to say you couldn't)i just can't see why anyone would choose ninjutsu with such better options

obiwancanuck (October 7, 2008 at 1:32 am)

But my point in a nutshell is - students of bujinkan do study the whole art as a tma, yes. But they also take what works and disregard what doesn't. I'd suggest MMA is the same way... some techniques just won't work for me, but I still study and practise them.

obiwancanuck (October 7, 2008 at 1:28 am)

nicerebound, I had to finish our discussion as a message to your account... I couldn't post any comments for a while (must have gone over my limit!)