A real Gem from the 80’s

Don't have the Survivor anymore, but still got these, so I'm good. Once a ninja, always a ninja!😆
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I feel like we need to start an “Almost Ninja” BF club - LOL. I vividly remember that book. I also remember the month that “Dragon” magazine (I think it was) published the Dungeons and Dragons rules for the Ninja class. Good lord, nobody that I played D&D with would be anything but Ninjas from that point on. It actually was the ruin of our D&D run - as everybody stuck to their proverbial blowguns.

I can’t tell you where my Gerber multi-tool is, but I know right where my throwing star from the 80s is. Aw man, good stuff...
 
The Blacksmith said:
Don't have the Survivor anymore, but still got these, so I'm good. Once a ninja, always a ninja!😆

I feel like we need to start an “Almost Ninja” BF club - LOL. I vividly remember that book. I also remember the month that “Dragon” magazine (I think it was) published the Dungeons and Dragons rules for the Ninja class. Good lord, nobody that I played D&D with would be anything but Ninjas from that point on. It actually was the ruin of our D&D run - as everybody stuck to their proverbial blowguns.

I can’t tell you where my Gerber multi-tool is, but I know right where my throwing star from the 80s is. Aw man, good stuff...
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I remember that Dragon volume... but we'd already had a ninja class in our campaign that we adapted from the RPG game "Bushido". So it wasn't much in our group.

But yeah, after that all you heard about was people's ninja characters. Bizarre. Man, the old school D&D Version 1 was a couple decades back. Holy cow.

But I digress.

The more I think about it, the more I hope some custom maker takes this old 80s survival wreck and makes a kickass homage to it. Bottle opener and all.
 
Anybody remember "Pumping Iron", another classic of that era? :)
 
A friend of mine had sets of those stars. He had to go out of state to buy them. They looked cool, but I wasn’t impressed actually throwing them.

I made a simple star out of a 4” square electrical blank plate and a hacksaw that was absolutely deadly. It really upset him that mine was better. Lol.
 
I was only saved from getting a Rambo knife or going full ninja, by having a pair of friends who trail-blazed those paths way further than was healthy. I learned to throw knives and read some of their psycho killer qu'est-ce que c'est magazines, but didn't quite go all the way over the edge.

 
Dragon Magazine! Ragnar Benson! Wow, starting to feel like 1986 all over again!

Thanks guys!
 
here’s mine. wanna say i picked it up around ‘88 or ‘89. came from a “imports” shop down the road from my house. D63B0448-92DD-49C8-A945-52792535036B.jpegalmost all of the liquid is gone from the compass & the handle’s empty but otherwise it’s in better shape than i woulda thought. (please excuse the messy workbench, i’ve been a bit lazy lately)
 
I have one of those.

Somebody gave it. They are garbage with the hollow handle

Still better than nothing? I don't know.
 
KenHash said:
There are many "heads" of different schools of Ninjutsu. No one person head of all.
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I was dating this lady years back, who had just gotten some upper belt at the local Ninja school (it actually had a sign saying it was a Ninja dojo or something). I ran up a set of stairs from the beach and noticed she was gasping like a fish. She explained that they didn't have any emphasis on cardio or physical conditioning, you know like a real martial arts school that doesn't care about regularly injuring their out of shape students whenever they do anything. Even my fencing classes had us go through rigorous physical training before they let us get stabby with each other. I was shocked, OK not overly shocked, that a school openly advertising itself as a Ninja school was a bit of a fraud. They even claimed a lineage of masters stretching back to the feudal era. It was like someone read A LOT of Ninja magazines and decided: "I'm totally doing this!".
 
Wolverine666 said:
I remember this type of knife in my “ninja” and martial arts magazines/catalogs circa 1984/85. Unfortunately, my planned career path as a ninja never panned out.

Every now and then I get that ninja urge so I don my black sweat pants and try to sneak past my wife in the kitchen undetected. She says I stomp around like a Clydesdale even though I’m tip-toeing in my black socks. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
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The life of a ninja is solitary, and quite lonely. I wish I had chosen a different career path.
 
K.O.D. said:
The life of a ninja is solitary, and quite lonely. I wish I had chosen a different career path.
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Are you friends with other Ninja, like this guy? :D


To pull this back on topic, one of my relatives bought a pair of those hollow handle clones. Think I saw one still around among their tools. Guess we all get pulled in by advertising at some point?
 
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Sharp Steel said:
Are you friends with other Ninja, like this guy? :D


To pull this back on topic, one of my relatives bought a pair of those hollow handle clones. Think I saw one still around among their tools. Guess we all get pulled in by advertising at some point?
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Alas, no. I cannot afford attachments, much like the jedi of the old republic.
 
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