MT:Can I get what I want?

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Can I get what I want? By Adept - Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:45:44 GMT

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Having read through the forums here for a day or two, I see most of the discussion seems to centre around details, lineage, history and tradition.

What I want, what I am interested in, is technique. I want to learn the techniques that ninjutsu teaches, decide for myself what will be applicable to me, and then add those techniques to my repretoire.

What I definately don't want is to spend thousands of dollars travelling to foreign countries, learning foregin languages, and spending years training in a traditional ninjutsu ryu/dojo.

I'm not exactly an inexperienced martial artist, and get plenty of 'hands on' real life experience through my work as a bouncer. I'm not some newbie who wants to be a ninja without putting in the hard yards, I'm just looking to add to, or refine, what I already know.

Hopefully, there will be two ways the good people on MT can help me. The first is by recommending books or videos which can demonstrate these ninjutsu techniques to me. I would prefer to learn from a credible instructor, but my location will no doubt make the cost prohibitive. Added to which, I don't think I would be likely to find someone who would skip the 'fluff' and just teach me what I want to know.

The second way you can help me is by defining ninjutsu by technique. What grappling and joint manipulation can I learn from ninjutsu that I could not learn from jujutsu? What striking techniques that I wouldn't learn from boxing, karate and taekwondo?


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I'm not exactly an inexperienced martial artist, and get plenty of 'hands on' real life experience through my work as a bouncer. I'm not some newbie who wants to be a ninja without putting in the hard yards, I'm just looking to add to, or refine, what I already know.

Just off the top of my head, Ninjitsu may be a little over-kill for you. Far too extensive a fighting system. I think your time would be better served with a good Jujitsu class as Ninjitsu is a War Art. Jujitsu is embedded within Ninjitsu in some forms and should be enough for your purposes. Why spend your time learning to poison someone or learning to enter a castle and kidnap someone. Much too extensive a fighting system for someone not devoted to the all-inclusiveness of Ninjitsu. Good luck.