I have a few handed down books on combat arts from my late father, but was wondering if there were interesting books on their deception and stealth tactics. I'm trying to decorate my office with cool cloak and dagger related memorabilia, so things that have cool covers or spines is a plus.

Are there any practitioners in this group who live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area? I’m looking for like-minded people to train together.

Hi, I'm quite surprised I couldn't succeed with Google to find the name and info about the ninja skill that involves emerging from a body of water and doing stuff like moving so they blend into the waves tumbling onto the beach and such.

This is apparently obscure as hell, but I have a feeling someone on a ninjutsu subreddit would know!

Edit: Thanks guys, I'll check these out. The demonstration of what I'm talking about involved the demonstrator moving their hand in an arc so that the lighter color of the hand roughly matched how the wave would break as the guy was exiting the water onto the shore.

This came to mind because of a discussion about military camouflage principles that deal with removing your sillhouette by ensuring that there is a hill or something behind you. The ninjitsu technique is basically a moving example of what was mentioned, so it came to mind.

When practicing jiujitsu , the common mentality is that we have to stop before we tear a ligament or break the bone of the other person fighting us. now this works very well if the person has no weapons, and and there aare rules to abide by. but in real life people come in groups, with weapons that too with no rules or mercy.

Ancient warriors of japan used jiujitsu to beat multiple opponents, training includes them to not go in boxing stance but break bones of multiple opponents. Ancient examples of japan would be ninja.

Now how to practice that?

what is the strategy of approaching the fight?

how to win with least damage to me? pls enlighten as i know there is a solution tothis but i dont know it as i dont practive or never have practised jiujitsu in my life.

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Brilliant short video, Ninjutsu "Kusari Fundo" (Ninja Rope/chain techniques) with poor Aikido sensei on the receiving end! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4CsMxAVbZ2g .

I think no cause karate gi pants are long and they don't wear socks and stuffs like ninja who wears socks looking shoes(jika - tabi ) and they look so comfortable cause they have the place for their foot thumbs and shinobi has short pants(hakama pants) just below their knees for kicks and flexible movements which is good and karate gi might have same upper clothes but colour is still different shinobi clothes are mostly for wearing in nights to disguise within the night to not let ur enemy see you and they have secret pockets for keeping stuffs like weapons , poison

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I assume they have their similarities seeing as they are similar weapons, but I know they do work in very different ways. What are some similarities and differences in technique?

I may have posted this here before but, I've continued to be unsuccessful in finding help for this.

I have designs for a Ninjutsugi the same way practitioners of karate have a karategi or Judo have a judogi.

It's not a shinobi shozoku, nor is it just a black karate gi with the shoes. It is an easy thing to put on for training multiple times a week, can withstand getting tugged on for throws and grabs, would be made for a belt to be worn on the outside, and is fitted so you can add things like tabi if you wish.

I definitely need one for myself, but would be looking to supply a school ideally, and possibly could see myself selling to other Ninjutsu schools, but that's me thinking ahead.

... Please, does anyone know of a custom clothier that knows about gi fabrics and understands it's more than just printing a logo on the back of a jacket? Cause searches like "custom martial arts gi" is no help online.

Closest I've come thus far would be like the hippie yoga clothes websites but that's still pretty far removed.

Looking for advice on how to be unnoticed, how to "blend into the background" I guess.

I know it's not possible to *actually* turn invisible, but if anyone has any advice or places to start, it would be much appreciated!

Hello all, I have trained in ninjutsu and ninpō for many years. I am inclined to watch hand position. Please share your wisdom🙏🏻

I would like some feedback with this video I made. I liked adding the pictures into it was wondering what others thought. https://youtu.be/E3-BxC4FQsc?si=0xGXWeGAO3rzarj0

So me a my buddy have been sparring 1 on 1 for a while now and have burned true multiple broom stiks we used as a replacement in stead of a quality boken. So i wanted to ask here on some andvice on where to find a good bokken and what to look for

Just watched an old Gene Tierney movie The Iron Curtain and the Soviet agents dupd the protagonist into thinking they are normal citizens and its only because the protagonist works at a analytical office job that he noticed details were off enough to avoid the trap. Another Gene Tierney movie Chinagirl opens with the protagonist in a Japanese prison just right before Pearl Harbor and another American Prisoner helps him escape with the aid of a civilian girl visiting them. They make a scene where the girl gets hit because the other Prisoner is her husband and thought she betrayed them... but she secretly smugglea a pistol to him and thus the escape plan opens up and they fly away to India.

But wait! There's another twist! It turns out that the fellow Prisoner and girl who helps the her escape are Japanese collaborators and everyone including audiences who watched the movie back I. 1942 were legitimately fooled. The hero gets a warning from a local friend he made in India during the movie and is able to beat back the Secret agents in time. The performances I'm this movie I'm General were universally praised at the time of release.

So I am quite curious how much of a gigantic asset would knowing how to act have been for spies, secret agents, addassins, and other people doing espionage?

On a last note Gene Tierney's first movie the Return of Frank James has Henry Fonda as Frank say ye saw John Wilkes Booth (who assassinated Lincoln) performed at theater before the Civil War. I remember reading somewhere Booth was actually performing in the play when he came off stage and went to the boxseat and shot Lincoln from behind. So this made me wonder about the header question.

Having Gotten off from playing a session of the Pen and Paper Role Playing Game Blades In the Dark, this question came up. As the titles obviously shows, Blades In the Dark is a system that relies on stealth as you explore a Victorian inspired setting and you do various freelance jobs like assassinations, thefts, etc. And going back to the title, the best character stealth functions like sneaking and critical hits often use short blades of varying sizes from pocket knives to small swords. Longer weapons are available like clubs and sabers but have a big penalties and are only used as last resort when you are cornered by police nigthwatch and militia, etc.

I also remember in the Thief Computer games,you have a longsword available as weapons and while you can do surprise attacks, you really can't do insta kills while walking up to an enemy from behind consistently. The games' equip you with a knife by default and its extremely easy to score one-hit kills with a successful backstab.

So I ask if there's any truth to knives and other short blades smaller than a Gladius really are much more suited for stealth attacks than say a one handed axe or a generic arming sword?

So many movies like the silent film World War 1 J'Accuse often has a scene where the hero sneaks into the bad guy's camp with a knife and plenty of Sci Fi literature like Dune has elite soldiers like the Fremen who often go into enemy trenches, camps, and even fortifications, and wipe out entire platoons of soldiers equipped with the latest machine guns and laserguns using a knife like weapon.

Even in real life its super easy to find the use of knives as the dominant weapon by commando types. All you have to do search online about the special forces officer Bull Simmons who was dropped into Iran with a sharp object in his hand which wasn't even a proper military knife for intel gathering missions before his actual commando team attacked a facility in Iran to free two hostages and safely transport them back into the US. Thats doesn't even touch the icing of the cake of how knives are used so much in real stealth situations.

So I really ask, what advantages do knives and other short blade class weapons offer over swords and spears and other proper battlefield weapons for sneak attacks and other stealthy scenarios and espionage? Whats the reason why people armed with more effective weapons like gangsters with baseball bats and Medieval Crusaders would prefer to sheathe their swords or keep their bicycle chains in their vehicles and pull out a knife as they go around sneaking an enemy base? Why do even modern professionals like Italian Mafia and SAS commandos cut and stab enemy with knives instead of using a bayonet or a heavy walking cane when they infiltrate secret locations?

Hello, I'm a martial artist from a small town in Wisconsin. I've always wanted to teach martial arts but Sadly not a lot of people are interested around me. So I decided to make a YouTube tutorial series. Here is the first video please critique and give any tips. https://youtube.com/shorts/JomamJtVqko?feature=share4

Researchers such as Antony Cummins still believe the Ninja were a separate entity, specialist warriors with skills held by nobody else.

Through my own research I have come to believe 'Ninja' (Shinobi) was just a blanket-term which covered anything sneaky from mounted scouts to sneak-thieves.

So why do people still believe the Ninja were a separate branch of specialists? I'm confused.