I love the passive aggressive fighting that is common with BJK guys. Why don't you guys meet up for a purse duel..........

The BJK is full of **** cause its 'source' has lost his mind and advocates poor training practices and he undermines quality control.

You know those steroids are going to give you a big neck and little penis?

You know those steroids are going to give you a big neck and little penis?I would say you spoke from bitter experience, except I've never heard that they also affect intelligence.

Great post Dakotajudo. I didn't know you were ex-ninja as well. I also found that nobody in the buj had a concept of high-low percentage techniques, they were all given equal weight. That is what one would expect in a style that doesn't fight, and originates from people who don't. As Bruce Lee thought of the Chinese arts, it is the product of dry-land swimming. In summary, I would just like to say this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=532512302020365631&q=bujinkan

That is all.

But funny. However, Hatsumi-san has not lost he mind, I just think in his old age, he is comfortable just playing around and figure you what to learn to fight you will doing the training necessary. Its just assholes like Seago-fucktard that thinks the playing IS the training.

Completey agree.

....Its just assholes like Seago-fucktard that thinks the playing IS the training.


:toothy6: You'll be on my guest list when he comes out for a seminar. No charge. :ninjafigh

oh just on a side note,


A high-percentage technique is one that will be used a high number of times in a confrontation -- jabs, punches, kicks, etc. are all high-percentage techniques.

You t think grabbing by the neck, arm or shirt and punching to the head is uncommon in a self defense/fight situation?.. Definantly not something that'd happen in a sparring type situation..

but nevermind me, i'll go back to my corner and do my thing.

Grant.

oh just on a side note,



You t think grabbing by the neck, arm or shirt and punching to the head is uncommon in a self defense/fight situation?.. Definantly not something that'd happen in a sparring type situation..

but nevermind me, i'll go back to my corner and do my thing.

Grant.

Actually I interpret "high percentage" to mean that it works a high percent of the time you attempt it. I think you are referring to what the SBG calls "attached striking"? I remember Thornton saying that this is the most common type of striking in a real fight, and most of the footage I've seen seems to confirm that.

I'm an asshole when it comes to my opinions toward martial arts.

I used to think that Hatsumi had a plan as far as setting some of the senior practicioners up and trying to fix his organization through subtle manipulation.
After over a decade and coming to Japan, I saw that he did not care about the future of everyone's training and he publically advocated training with some of the shittiest instructors out there. He appeared to only be concerned with making money.

And he completely endorses cultish loyalty to himself and he is quick to chastize other instructors for doing anything but his advocated methods.

After being around in martial arts in Japan for a while, I would definitely say that there is more ego and bullshit coming out of the honbu than in any Judo dojo or sport fighting gym that I have ever set foot in.

Great post Dakotajudo. I didn't know you were ex-ninja as well. I also found that nobody in the buj had a concept of high-low percentage techniques, they were all given equal weight. That is what one would expect in a style that doesn't fight, and originates from people who don't. As Bruce Lee thought of the Chinese arts, it is the product of dry-land swimming. In summary, I would just like to say this:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=532512302020365631&q=bujinkan

That is all.
Thank you for the Brazilian Ninjutsu clip ;-)

I feel a bit sorry for you Shinbushi. Everytime MONGO or someone lays a smackdown on the bujinkan I think a little part of you must die inside.

BTW: Mongo aren't you doing judo anymore? I can't picture mongo not doing judo.

Thanks For the concern with the exception of Soke being crazy. I pretty much agree with all you post. The only reasons I am in the org are:
1. I have personal relationships with Soke and Nagato Sensei
2. My students like being part of the Bujinkan
3. I do enjoy the kata training eventhough it may take my time away from aliveness.
I must be a self hating Ninjer :lol:

I don't know. I'm finding the more I spar outside of class with non-bujinkan people. The more I spar after class with bujinkan people, the more I do pressure testing in class and the resistance work we do in some classes, my taijutsu is changing and starting to look a little different when we speed things up.

I'm looking at different take downs when we practice kata with open endings and seeing different openings to explore during a kata.

I remember when I first came to Craig's class, I had already spent some time with another bujinkan mob. I thought I was the ****. Boy was I wrong. My first uke was a guy named Shane, (I think its nighthawk on kutaki) a guy that has been in the booj for about 25 odd years and I think works as a bouncer/security for just as long.

The whole class this guy was really going hard on me, but stopping to explain every little detail along the way. When I'd throw a punch he'd be like, "no do it faster" "no put more force behind it" etc... when he would come in for a grab/punch, I would grab hold of his wrist, go to block etc, and when I would try to put a lock on or throw him I found couldn't budge him. He would just stand there, fully resisting, and I just stood like a dope starring at him. "If you can't do it on your own, the you're not doing it right," he would say. Not being a smart arse, not being funny. Just matter of fact.

He doesn't train with us all the time. He just comes in from time to time. But I learnt alot from that first class, and from any class he's been in that I have been lucky enough to train with him...I think he really changed my way of thinking when it comes to my training in the bujinkan. And all the alive interest started from there. Things I've picked up from Shinbushi, Mongo, Kempo Fist and Virus along the way have shaped it even more.

Though the changes in my dojo have been slowly progressive ones, the stuff you guys have said have made a difference and I thank you for it. I know Granto gets frustrated because he wishes to see more, and in some ways I share his feelings here. But I'm taking every day as it comes. Looking at our dojos current newsletter, now there even appears to be a new class scheduled to begin, to start once my Sensei recovers from an injury, that will involve sparring etc
Did I think I would see a day where there was no longer a need to seek sparring partners outside of the bujinkan? Not on your life.

Let's see what happens.
~Nick

Maybe Australia can be the little pocket of the world where sparring in bujinkan class in considered normal. Shinbushi is working his puppet strings one dojo at a time ;)

I believe Greg Alcorn used to spar in his dojo but I don't know if he's still teaching anymore.

Yeah, I still do Judo but I have crossed over and started BJJ primarily.

I am using the combination of grappling skills to compliment my BJK taijutsu. I plan on transforming everything into a fighting efficient art so everything I learned in the BJK needs to be modified to look less stupid.

:sex: <-------- Its a smiley of me fucking a ninja in the kukan.

And Shinbushi and Shawn Askew are the only BJK peeps that actually prove that they have live training. Its hard for me to believe that it is common anywhere and I usually classify guys that say they have live training (other than the 2 listed above) but don't offer video or other evidence as either too stupid to understand what live training is or they are liars.

I am sure there is tons of both.

What a minute...
Is there a ninja on this thread with a name similar to mine, without the "clever" double meaning?

What a minute...
Is there a ninja on this thread with a name similar to mine, without the "clever" double meaning?
Yes you have a shadow copy