Japanese Ninja's/Martial Arts On Brink Of Extinction

[PAL 07]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20135674

[dalsingh101]

I know. Modern 'James Bond' type assassins are preferred these days. Oriental guys in black face masks stick out too much when you want a discreet execution.

[khalistan_zindabaad]

Maybe niddar should proclaim to be the last Chinese warrior aswell

[Guest]

Maybe niddar should proclaim to be the last Chinese warrior aswell

lol

[HSD2]

A real shame. Surprised some of the Japanese ultranationalists arent interested in his training. What a terrible art form to lose. Hell, one of us should go and learn rather than moaning about SV. Or send Niddar.

[Singh559]

Maybe niddar should proclaim to be the last Chinese warrior aswell

lol

[ElusiveFighter]

It's a little bit sensationalised. There are actually a few other lesser known Ninjitsu Schools in Japan, who didn't have the desire and strategy to become world famous and monopolise.

I have been reading Dr Hatsumis books for years, he has been releasing them since the early 80s. He is the original Grand-Master who claimed to be the 'last living....' Ninja in this case. Many Martial Artists have been inspired by him over the last 3 decades and incorporated his fighting and weapons/projectiles strategies into their own arts.

His art is very good, especially his weapons knowledge, would be difficult to find anyone who has more overall/complete traditional weapons knowledge than him to be honest.

But he is defo not the last Ninja. In fact he has many high level students over the years who he has given 'titles' too who have their own respective schools all across the world. He has pretty much taught all he knew, he has released a 'vast' amount of videos over the years covering all aspects of his art.

I especially like and have utilised some of projectiles knowledge, which is easily and perfectly transposable to chakkars (especially wrist size).

In the old days, there were no titles like Grand Master, Maha Guru (Silat) and the vast array of Filipino ones. People were just known for their fighting ability, end of. If you were passing something down generationally, you would do so to a child or someone highly trusted, as the only thing saving you from death in the pre-police state days, was the fact that everyone else out there, didn't know your art.

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[Cisco_Singh]

The truth is that real combat arts have been in decline for years, decades. Ever since the world became a bit more civilised and people became more business and education orientated in peaceful times warrior traditions and artfroms for neglected and forgotton. Warfare changed to that of guns, artilllery, aircraft, etc..

It's like brazillian ju-jitsu is actually based on the traditional battlefield art of the Japaneese samurai the oriiginal artfrom is probbaly lost. Certian schools especially Japaneese sword schools are pretty secretive and selective about who they teach it's not easy for outsiders to learn these art froms. Even traditional Gung-Fu is maily lost and replaced with a softened kung-fu version...

It's nextremely difficult to find teachers of tradtional conbat art froms...even mor difficult is havng the time to dedicate to learn them...it's almost impossible in todays day and age to dedicate your life to learning a combat art...Bills have to be paid...people have to work. They werent just art froms either they were tied into culture,history,tradition etc.. Samurai had the Bushido code etc it was a complete way of life all encompassing