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Do you know who Korean Ninja is? You may know him from youtube, under the name Choson Ninja. If not, check out this phenomenal video:

• Ninja tabi socks If you have ninja boots you surely know that regular socks are not a good choice to go with them. What you need are the Ninja Socks with a split toe design that match the Ninja boots. Although you will probably like the feeling that free toe gives you, keep......
• Do You Want to Know How to Properly Throw Shurikens Author: Phil WashingtonBy now, you're probably already familiar with throwing stars. These are the quintessential ninja weapons apart from the katana and no ninjitsu practitioner should ever be without it. The throwing star, also known as the shuriken, can be a formidable self-defense weapon but only if you're someone who......
• Ninja weapons - stick (staff) Bo is Oriental equivalent of the quarterstaff and is normally 6-7 feet long. Its hard wood makes it difficult to cut or break. Hanbo (half staff) is 2-3 foot stick used as a weapon; practitioners often carry one in each hand. Jo (stick) is a weapon about 4 feet long,......
• Ninja weapons - sword Bokken (wooden sword) This is a wooden copy of the katana, designed to simulate that sword’s weight and other characteristics. It is used to practice swordsmanship since it does not cause cutting injuries. Wielded aggressively, however, it can cause injury from the force of the blow. The bokken requires sword......
• Ninja weapons - Kau sin ke (whipping chain) This weapon consists of four to six short iron bars connected by several links of chain. Its origins can be traced to the agricultural flail. Used properly, it can be a deadly weapon; the iron bars can wrap around shields to land crushing blows. However, it is not as flexible......

If you think to jump from tall heights like a ninja you should first learn how to roll. This takes some practice but it is important to learn it properly so you don’t get injured. Rolling transfers the momentum from jumps and minimize impact of the landing. Parkour practitioners know this and they took the technique from Martial Arts, such as Ninjutsu, Aikido, Jujutsu and Hapkido (Korean martial art).

So when you jump and roll, keep in mind the following tips to prevent a painful landing:

- try to put your body low to the ground in a horizontal position. When you land vertically gravity has the biggest impact. If you keep your body horizontal to the ground you disperse the force wider

- let your momentum takes you into a roll. Reach out for the ground with your hands and start to roll diagonally over your shoulder as tight as possible.

- avoid rolling directly over your neck because you could get injured.

Now let’s see how Choson Ninja flies over a car and rolls:

It looks so easy when he does it.

If you are jumping from a tree or some other high object and you land on your feet remember this:

- reach the ground with the balls of your feet
- bend you knees to absorb the initial impact
- rotate your body-weight forward and move into a roll as described above

Have fun with rolling and take care!

• Ninja weapons - axes Ninjas use battle and hand (throwing) axes of all kinds. The key to sticking is consistency (which is one of the most important ninja's characteristics). This is most easily attained with an axe or 'hawk with a bit of mass. It's best to throw heaviest you can without strain. Throwing......
• Ninja shoes - Ninja Tabi boots Ninja Tabi boots are the usual part of a ninja outfit. These ninja shoes are famous for their split toe design. Split toes enable a better grip of the ground. They give you a better control of your movements, provide comfort and stability. This is specially important for extreme conditions,......
• Ninja weapons - stick (staff) Bo is Oriental equivalent of the quarterstaff and is normally 6-7 feet long. Its hard wood makes it difficult to cut or break. Hanbo (half staff) is 2-3 foot stick used as a weapon; practitioners often carry one in each hand. Jo (stick) is a weapon about 4 feet long,......
• Iga Ryu Ninja Museum If you find yourself in Japan, be sure to visit the Iga Ryu Ninja Museum located in Iga, Mie Prefecture. This museum is dedicated to ninjas, their history, culture, and ninjutsu discipline. Official website of the Museum is: http://iganinja.jp/en/museum/index.html The musem has four main sections: Iga-ryu Ninja House Ninja......
• Do You Want to Know How to Properly Throw Shurikens Author: Phil WashingtonBy now, you're probably already familiar with throwing stars. These are the quintessential ninja weapons apart from the katana and no ninjitsu practitioner should ever be without it. The throwing star, also known as the shuriken, can be a formidable self-defense weapon but only if you're someone who......

Two clips from Rick Tew’s Total Warrior Ninja Camp.
They are doing some serious training over there.

Find out more about ninja camp.

• Ninja uniform Ninjas are well known for their distinguished outfit called Shinobi shozoku. When we think of a ninja we usually imagine a warrior silently stalking his enemy, wearing black ninja uniform, ninja boots and black mask on his face. Such notion of ninja uniform is borrowed as a idea from the......
• Ninja weapons - Shuriken (throwing star) This small throwing weapon comes in many sizes and shapes. Three varieties are described here. All shuriken are thrown by hand and have a limited range. They are easily hidden in folds of clothing or tucked into sashes. Spike shuriken can even be worn in the hair. Spike shuriken look......
• Interested in finding ninja secrets? Ninjas were fascinating warriors, spies and deadliest enemies, yet there are so many myths about them. These mysterious warriors are known for their phenomenal abilities and combat skills, but also for their brutality and ruthlessness. If you are a ninja enthusiast you are surely interested in finding out all ninja......
• Ninja weapons - axes Ninjas use battle and hand (throwing) axes of all kinds. The key to sticking is consistency (which is one of the most important ninja's characteristics). This is most easily attained with an axe or 'hawk with a bit of mass. It's best to throw heaviest you can without strain. Throwing......
• Ninja assassin trailer! This year, on 25th November, Ninja Assassin is coming to cinemas! I really look forward to watching this movie. The trailer looks spectacular! The plot: "A young ninja turns his back on orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan" Check out the......

Author: Phil Washington

By now, you’re probably already familiar with throwing stars. These are the quintessential ninja weapons apart from the katana and no ninjitsu practitioner should ever be without it. The throwing star, also known as the shuriken, can be a formidable self-defense weapon but only if you’re someone who knows how to use it. To be able to deploy shuriken efficiently and safely, learn how to use them. Here are tips on how to practice using the throwing star:

Understand the weapon
Throwing stars are not always deadly. In fact, they were generally used to temporarily disable an enemy, make it difficult for them to move or use their weapons or at least discourage them from attacking. Only if they hit the target in places such as the throat or neck can the throwing star actually become lethal.

A throwing star has 6 to 8 sharp points. When thrown properly, it can hit the target vertically, horizontally or diagonally from 10 to about 30 feet.

Holding and concealing the throwing star
To begin practicing using throwing stars, learn how to hold them properly. The first skill you need to learn is how to conceal them. Do this by keeping the shooting star in the palm of your hand. Practice holding it firmly enough so you don’t drop it and it doesn’t cut your hand. From this original position, you can begin learning how to slip the throwing star from your palm to fit between your forefinger and thumb. These two fingers are often used to hold a tip of the shuriken prior to a throw.

Throwing the shuriken
There are several ways you can actually use the throwing stars. The most common include the overhand (the same manner you’d use if you were throwing a dart), the underhand and the sidearm. The movement involved in the sidearm throw is similar to the movement you’d be using if you were throwing a frisbee — your hand comes from your chest and your arm straightens as you release the star.

The underhand throw requires a little bit of skill and strength but it can be quite effective and such, should be practiced as well. The throwing star is held between two fingers with the palm facing backward, arm straight on the side of the body. As you draw the arm out from underneath, you release the star as soon as your arm is parallel to the ground.

Learning to gauge the distance
The only way a throwing star becomes effective is if it actually hits the target. Practice using it at different distances — 5 feet, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 feet. You’ll find that the force necessary to reach a target will increase as the distance increases. Through muscle memory, you’ll be able to determine how much force or effort to put into your throw depending on the distance involved.

To practice using throwing stars efficiently, use a cardboard target, a plyboard or a piece of wood. Make sure these are propped against a concrete wall to avoid any accidents.

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• Ninja weapons - blowgun Many ninja use blowguns, as light weapons or as distractions. It may be used as a means to deliver poisons. A blowgun dart is larger and heavier, and does more damage than a blowgun needle but the needle is just as good at carrying poisons. Blowguns can also be used......
• Ninja weapons - stick (staff) Bo is Oriental equivalent of the quarterstaff and is normally 6-7 feet long. Its hard wood makes it difficult to cut or break. Hanbo (half staff) is 2-3 foot stick used as a weapon; practitioners often carry one in each hand. Jo (stick) is a weapon about 4 feet long,......
• Ninja assassin trailer! This year, on 25th November, Ninja Assassin is coming to cinemas! I really look forward to watching this movie. The trailer looks spectacular! The plot: "A young ninja turns his back on orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan" Check out the......
• Ninja uniform Ninjas are well known for their distinguished outfit called Shinobi shozoku. When we think of a ninja we usually imagine a warrior silently stalking his enemy, wearing black ninja uniform, ninja boots and black mask on his face. Such notion of ninja uniform is borrowed as a idea from the......
• Ninja weapons - sword Bokken (wooden sword) This is a wooden copy of the katana, designed to simulate that sword’s weight and other characteristics. It is used to practice swordsmanship since it does not cause cutting injuries. Wielded aggressively, however, it can cause injury from the force of the blow. The bokken requires sword......

Author: Andrew Thomas

Interview with ninja master Brian McCarthy 8th Dan

[Adrian]: This is an exclusive pod cast from the websites of the BBD. On Remembrance Sunday, the final national seminar of the BBD in 2006 took place in Edinburgh. The head of the BBD, Brian McCarthy, joined me on my breakfast show to talk about Ninjutsu history and tradition, Brian’s journey as a renowned martial artist and training within the BBD. First part of a three part discussion about Ninjutsu history and tradition.

[Brian]: Thank you, Adrian.

[Adrian]: Good morning, Brian. Now I’m going to ask you some fairly obvious questions because if I said Ninjutsu, most people wouldn’t know what it is. If I said shinobi, they definitely wouldn’t know what it is. But if I said ninja, they certainly get this sort of Hollywoodization of maybe we wear a half-shell, eat pizza and carry swords in our backs. But who and what were the ninja?

[Brian]: Ninja, Adrian, were originally samurai who had faced difficulties in battles or lost battles or warlords they work for would have been ceded, which means essentially that then they’re unemployed or some of them are unemployed. That was the basis of Ninjutsu — coming together with Chinese monks who went to being warrior monks in the eastern part of Japan and living in communities in the mountains that were essentially enclosed. They then structured their training and their way of living into a military style farmer fighting, and it just evolved from there over a period of hundreds of years.

[Adrian]: Even today Japanese still fear Ninjutsu mostly because of their supposed magical powers but how did they structure themselves if they were fighting monks? How exactly did they organize themselves?

[Brian]: There are two way to answer that. First of all, they are still feared in Japan and sometimes they are even recognized in Japan… this huge part of Japanese culture that says ninja never existed but then again the history was written by the samurai’s so they entirely say we didn’t exist. And how they organized themselves… primarily because of this samurai involvement on initially who were obviously highly trained military officers, they had a military style background, so they were able to organize themselves into small close fighting groups and to communities. Over a long period of time they intermarried. The children of these marriages have their own kids and the family’s extend in to the mountains and become a clan of its own.

[Adrian]: So it wasn’t a case of a bunch of lads got together, trained together and then said, “Right, we’re ninja, let’s go off and fight.”

[Brian]: No, no, no, no, no, they just changed their lifestyle completely. They lived in the remotest parts of Japan; they lived in the mountains. They were no longer welcome. The powers that be were after some of them at the time. If you were on the losing side of the battle you had no futures and would generally be executed. So when they left that part of the country and they moved to the mountains, that was going to be their new place and where they would have lived.

[Adrian]: I was going to ask you the question, how did they become ninjas, so are you suggesting that it was a clan system based on family?

[Brian]: Yes, it’s not a fact that people become ninja; It’s a matter of fact that traditionally they developed from many differing backgrounds. The defeated samurai, the monks who had left china who were forced into a new way of life. These are the people who formed Ninjutsu . And over a period a time then because they’re a mix of the mountain people, because they’re living in remote areas, they formed communities.

[Adrian]: Scotland has a strong tradition in the martial arts with many varying flavors and Ninjutsu is one of those martial art practised quite heavily in Scotland. But I want to know…shinobi and ninja’s… but I don’t know why they call themselves shadow warriors or invisible assassins.

[Brian]: Well, they never did and still don’t. People call them that by virtue of the perception of what ninja is and the term “shadow warrior” is kind of an Americanized updated term but the term shinobi essentially means “stealers in”… a person who steals, who enters at night, and when they say “steal” they don’t mean actually in theft point of view… but enters quietly, covertly, and the name was given to them by the general public by virtue of the fact that the type of work they did — they would come in the dark, they would go in the dark, people did not know they were there, they would do what they had to do and hence, they were called stealers in or shinobi.

[Adrian]: So basically it’s the westernization of the ninja…

[Brian]: Yes.

[Adrian]: …as we have with the turtles and the half-shells.

[Brian]: Yes. When we go back to the comment I made that it took them a number of years to evolve, the word ” Ninjutsu ” or the term “ninjitsu” or “ninja” didn’t evolve for about 300 or 400 years. These people just were there. They could have been called bandits, they could have been called outlaws, they could have been called warriors but by virtue of how they, over that period of time, how they developed their profile and how they developed their method of working…there was the broad general population and the authorities who put the name ninja on them or shinobi on them.

End of part one

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• Ninja tabi socks If you have ninja boots you surely know that regular socks are not a good choice to go with them. What you need are the Ninja Socks with a split toe design that match the Ninja boots. Although you will probably like the feeling that free toe gives you, keep......
• Ninja shoes - Ninja Tabi boots Ninja Tabi boots are the usual part of a ninja outfit. These ninja shoes are famous for their split toe design. Split toes enable a better grip of the ground. They give you a better control of your movements, provide comfort and stability. This is specially important for extreme conditions,......
• Ninja weapons - Kau sin ke (whipping chain) This weapon consists of four to six short iron bars connected by several links of chain. Its origins can be traced to the agricultural flail. Used properly, it can be a deadly weapon; the iron bars can wrap around shields to land crushing blows. However, it is not as flexible......
• Ninja weapons - spear Chijiriki (chain spear) A length of weighted chain is added to the butt end of a normal spear. This weapon can be used as a normal spear, or the butt-chain can be swung out, entangling the opponent. Sang kauw (two-headed spear) This weapon comes in two forms. The basic form......
• Ninja weapons - stick (staff) Bo is Oriental equivalent of the quarterstaff and is normally 6-7 feet long. Its hard wood makes it difficult to cut or break. Hanbo (half staff) is 2-3 foot stick used as a weapon; practitioners often carry one in each hand. Jo (stick) is a weapon about 4 feet long,......