arbeit macht ninja

[Hedgehogey]

Once again, Ninja grappling. I can describe this with bullshido cliches or with my own brand of 200% more pretentious analogies writeup (which has been established here long enough that it is itself a bullshido cliche) but ultimately, nothing can prepare you for the reality of a grown man in a black costume kissing his biceps in front of a room full of scared, awkward teenagers.

So without further introductions...

http://www.ninjutsu.org.uk/ninjas_ta...ortsmouth.html

The tragicomedy starts about 1:30
YouTube- That's what I call budo 1

[Lindz]

IME rationalizations for avoiding arbeit were a big part of what macht ninja.

[animlmthr]

I just don't understand this crap and why people would go along with half of it.

BTW, was he tickling people at one point or did I misinterpret a d34dly technique?

[Lindz]

Time index?

As for why people go along with this, they are seriously convinced that if they trained with any kind of resistance people would constantly be injured. I think the way they did it to me was they did a wristlock and told me to not resist at all. I felt slight discomfort. Then they told me to resist a little, it kinda hurt a bit.
Then they said if I was allowed to fully resist my wrist would probably get broken. So the only way to safely train this stuff is 100% compliant. If you drill it enough with a healthy dose of adreneline you'll be able to do it full speed if the time comes.
I believed it because I'd heard the same thing on a documentary about the U.S. marines hand to hand training (it was an earlier system than the current one). Add in a belief in the jutsu/do street(battlefield)/sport dichotomy and for a while it all made sense to my ignorant little mind (for a while).

[Sley]

WTf at 2:00

[vaquero de las nalgas]

Interesting, we don't see too much ground work in these parts.

The instructors do not seem to have suffered from the all too frequent Bujinkan rank inflation, to their credit.

[Da Pope]

The tragicomedy starts about 1:30

No no no its much earlier than that.

[Lebell]

what an enormous egomaniac!
all ive seen is one big egotrip from someone with very poor japanese jiu jitsu skills.
and japanese jiu jitsu sucks already on its own.
what a dick.

in the beginning the prick manages to fuck up a kuzure kote heneri on that young boy.

[Tonuzaba]

You guys all got it wrong, Mr. Black Pants explains it on the website:

Tickling will, obviously.

[Kovacs]

The double wrist lock/throw dirty threesome at 0.13 is rather special.

[DCS]

Best thread title of the year.

OT. Looks Systema to me.

[Kovacs]

Tickling will, obviously.

That bit made me feel sick.

[leyon]

Is it bad I clicked this expecting some broken ninja arms at the tiny paws of a prickly mammal?

[JingMerchant!]

In reference to the link: Ah, Bryan Mcarthy! The Bujinkan boys look down on him because he broke away from them to do his own thing.

Which, could be a very negative reflection on Mr Mcarthy or a fairly positive one... either way, meh.

I was also astonished to see some fairly pretty girls in the pics posted.

Pretty girls... At a Ninja seminar.... Armageddon is here...!!!

[Kuma]

As for why people go along with this, they are seriously convinced that if they trained with any kind of resistance people would constantly be injured. I think the way they did it to me was they did a wristlock and told me to not resist at all. I felt slight discomfort. Then they told me to resist a little, it kinda hurt a bit.

I blame Aikido for inventing the concept of an Uke.