Effective Bujinkan Training

[Rubber Tanto]

It's called swelling, and it's normal after your sex change operation.

Wishful thinking will get you nowhere.
:inlove:

[FilipinoNinja]

It's called swelling, and it's normal after your sex change operation.

:laughing4 :laughing4 :laughing4

[rw4th]

Not to brag but my nuts are too big for a cup...I use a mug.

It's called swelling, and it's normal after your sex change operation.

[kwoww]

Not to brag but my nuts are too big for a cup...I use a mug.

that actually made me laugh out lout

[Rubber Tanto]

Ninja's have no testicles so they don't need cups.

Not to brag but my nuts are too big for a cup...I use a mug.

[rw4th]

SO you guys don't use mouthguards and cups?

Ninja's have no testicles so they don't need cups.

[ah_dut]

I agree that every once in a while sparring without gloves (which is the only protective gear you really need in my view) is good.

SO you guys don't use mouthguards and cups?

[Mark2001]

Oh yeah of course
His name's Tony

Thanks But where doe's Tony live at?

[Rubber Tanto]

Hey guy's sorry for barging in like this, but doe's anyone know of a person in the US that teach's Gyokushin Ryu ?

Oh yeah of course
His name's Tony

[Mark2001]

Hey guy's sorry for barging in like this, but doe's anyone know of a person in the US that teach's Gyokushin Ryu ?

[Virus]

intent based training was something I was thrown into the deep end when I started training in Ninjutsu and BJJ. Having someone shouting abuse at you as he was swinging away with punches in only your second lesson is something I will never forget.
if I remember right, my bastard of an instructor said to me

"you next,you have 2mins, use only ichimonji, time starts now"

"Use only ichimonji" Hilarious.

[soyez efficaces]

NinjaPhil,

15yrs later I am still training, yeah he wasn't such a bastard instructor after all it was just that he only knew one way and that was the hard way. One of the best Bujinkan instructors ever in terms of effectiveness. He passed away last year but he has left many well grounded students. Loved that old man and not ashame to say it.

[Ninjaphil]

I think that getting thrown into the deep end of that is not a bad thing. It saves you years and years of retraining to learn it. I understand that many people train for different reasons, but martial arts are martial arts. Reality is reality. Don't know if he was a bastard or not, but he gave you a chance to decide if you wanted what's behind this door.

I used to teach everything through pressure training. I would have one person fight for 30 sec and then fresh opponent for another 30 etc. I personally got through about 9 or 10 once, but it was hard. It is my personal view, but this is a part of martial arts. And it is infact (again my personal view) the real basics. You have to need technique in order for technique to be founded in you. If you are not put in a difficult situation but instead do everything softly, real technique will never be embedded in you. There has to be a genuine need for you to find away around the other person's experience and difference in size, power, age, gender. And from there you're personal technique will start being born. Monkey see monkey do Sanshin no kata kihon happo only leads to people having to relearn everything from the beginning if they are lucky enough to realise how useless it can be to teach difficult principals like those to a beginner. If the beginner starts to reach conclusions on technique then the beginner may be lead to concluding for himself that the principals of "basics" are useful. Monkey see monkey do never created any spectacular fighter or artist or scientist or anything.

Maybe your teacher wasn't such a bastard after all. Don't know what else he may have done to make you feel that way, but the initial thing that he asked you to do was a true step towards giving you a genuine understanding of what you're up against. I personally only like to teach people because they need to learn something that is real. Anything we do in the end is as real as we are willing to make it.

[soyez efficaces]

regarding effectiveness..if you in it for this, cross training is a must, bit of that and a bit of this won't hurt IMHO. Too much of that and too much of this can hurt though. I remember a friend of mine who loved pressure testing but his targeting was consistently bad, the problem was his basic skills were crap.

intent based training was something I was thrown into the deep end when I started training in Ninjutsu and BJJ. Having someone shouting abuse at you as he was swinging away with punches in only your second lesson is something I will never forget.
if I remember right, my bastard of an instructor said to me

"you next,you have 2mins, use only ichimonji, time starts now"

pressure testing is not everyone's cup of tea as we all train for various reasons.

[spooky]

didn't musashi beat someone with a fan?

Haven't heard that one I'll have to ask my teacher.