Ninjutsu looks.... fun

[Gustard]

Well today I found out a friend does ninjutsu. Of course I myself have taken part in Ninjutsu bashing online here but in real life we all behave differently. I didn't start armbaring him to show Judo was superior or anything or harping on about the importance of aliveness during training - I did make sure he didn't think he was some sort of superhero that was invincible in a street fight - and he seemed to be suffering no such delusions .
However lets face it for self defense all martial arts are pretty much useless for self defense these days as you'll just get shot or stabbed in most violent confrontations, and apart fromm that they are just used to kick the crap out of each other in a sports setting (mma) or show off on the internet how great your martial art is - which is just vanity and ego really. Which is all very well but it does mean at the end of the day apart from pedalogical (education and way of life) and fitness reasons theres only one real reason for doing martial arts and that is - fun.
I have to admit my friends activities ,jumping around the forest, sneaking up on each other and attacking and so forth each other did sound like ... well kind of fun.
I'm not going to give up Judo and BJJ just yet but you know - in a weird kind of way it makes Ninjutsu superior to many other serious , macho kinds of things.

[Permalost]

Systema was like that. It was way fun. It was like recess for adults. It was just annoying when people took it so seriously or thought that they could beat up anyone.

[TaeBo_Master]

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to call a bunch of friends, get some beer, and just play hide and seek? Why do we stop doing this when we become adults? I could definitely get in on a good game of hide and seek.

[Gezere]

However lets face it for self defense all martial arts are pretty much useless these days as you'll just get shot or stabbed in most violent confrontations,

If this statement was 100% true then many people, myself included, would have been dead several times over.

[Gustard]

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to call a bunch of friends, get some beer, and just play hide and seek? Why do we stop doing this when we become adults? I could definitely get in on a good game of hide and seek.

Hmmm good point - its really good fun. kick the bottle, headhunter and best of all British bulldogs are still fun even when you become an adult.

[Gustard]

If this statement was 100% true then many people, myself included, would have been dead several times over.

Well you might be one of those few people who need martial arts for their day job , like a doorman or something, but for the vast majority of people violent encounters are very rare and can usually be avoided. (unless you're the one of those unusual breed who does martial arts just so he can break peoples arms in barfights and still somehow not feel embarrased or ashamed ).
Most robberies involve weapons and your generally better off just handing over the money. i agree its good to have something to fall back on but the chances of needing to use it once all safer alternatives have been exauhsted are minute.

[ADM]

... someone watched Penn and Tellers 'Bullshit' show didn't they?

[Styygens]

Wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to call a bunch of friends, get some beer, and just play hide and seek? Why do we stop doing this when we become adults? I could definitely get in on a good game of hide and seek.

I think it might be because, as adults, we discover sex.

Or, alternatively, Dungeons & Dragons.

And for the happy few... BOTH!

[yli]

It's a myth that people who play D&D are uglier and less sexually active than people who don't play D&D.

That being said, Ninjitsu looks like a great time, and all adults need well deserved recess breaks.

[Styygens]

It's a myth that people who play D&D are uglier and less sexually active than people who don't play D&D.

That being said, Ninjitsu looks like a great time, and all adults need well deserved recess breaks.

I feel the same way about "Grav" or however you spell it.

:tongue:

[Prince Vlad]

Following up on my hanbo through scrotum and out of belly ninjutsu impalement story I've got another couple of macho gems from that old club. I've come close to doing a full investigation write up on them a number of times but to be honest I bottled out because of a number of reasons).
That club had a macho factor that was somewhere up in the stratosphere. Other than a couple of kata nothing we were thouht was actually from the Bujinkan, it was basically a Sho Kosugi fueled Hollywood impression of ninjutsu as demonstrated by a bunch of genuine bad asses. The crazy thing was even though they officially left the Bujinkan after a bust up with Hatsumi they insisted on calling themselves a Bujinkan dojo because they had registered the business name. A Bujinkan club that isn't even in the Bujinakan... the mind boggles!
Anyway, macho things we did included - weekends camping in forests with teams hunting each other, archery including a student being shot accidently by a real crossbow bolt, knife fighting at a demonstration which turned bad and involved a black belt having his arm slashed by the head instructor after things went from friendly to serious in about 20 seconds, countless broken bones, teeth and senseless dislocations.
Back in the 80's pre internet this was the coolest club to be in, even looking back I know it was complete bullshit but the memories are totally Enter the Ninja.
Good times!

[Snake Plissken]

I would be lying if there weren't days where I wished I could just gear-up like a ninja, stalk over to someone's house, under the cloak of darkness, and just let my "shinobigatana" do the talking.

[TaeBo_Master]

I think it might be because, as adults, we discover sex.

Or, alternatively, Dungeons & Dragons.

And for the happy few... BOTH!

It wouldn't be that hard to combine hide and seek and sex. Just call it rape and have a nice day.

[Lu Tze]

However lets face it for self defense all martial arts are pretty much useless for self defense these days as you'll just get shot or stabbed in most violent confrontations

Unless you live in fucking Somalia, I really doubt this assertion.

Edit: I see this has been covered already...

[Gustard]

- weekends camping in forests with teams hunting each other,

That sounds great !! was there lashings of ginger beer ?