Off-topic: Ninja talk

Hang out here more, hang out there less. Some people are open, some people are closed. Why knock on an impenetrable shell?

By the way, "Ebenezer" is the Hebrew 'even ezer', stone of help, equivalent to Rock of Salvation. It just took him a little longer to get to it.
 
Discussing any martial art on the internet is just begging for trouble. There's always those people who have studied for so long that they know everything, and anyone that says something they don't agree with are liars, or into "bullshido". Thatsentance dripped with so much sarcasm in my mind. In order to have a real conversation about it, it seems you really need to do it face to face, sadly. Sorry buddy. I hope things turn around for you though. I'm pulling for you.
 
Didn't I tell you to stay the hell off Bullshido? :) It's the Mos Eisley of internet MA fora -- usually entertaining, occasionally informative, but at the end of the day it remains a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

To be fair to the haters, the Buj seems to have a perceived problem with consistancy stateside and it colors popular opinions of things, rightly or wrongly. Even I'm a little guilty of this. (Did I tell you about the "ninjutsu temple" in Belfair?) This may be the source of the static you're getting.

The crowd here seems a bit more open-minded to me. A Cantina thread probably wouldn't turn too ugly.
 
(I have never been to bullshido)

It's not so much the internet monkeys who bother me, it's the fact that I get messages from the Hombu asking me not to give out certain details, which means I have to avoid a lot of things in other discussions. I understand it and I will obey, I just miss being able to really delve like I used to do every day back in Japan. It was a joy to me.
I guess maybe alot of people still aren't ready for such discussions, I don't mean you guys, but my family back here in America.
My brother asked me some things about it and I pulled out a box of antique weapons and started showing him some things and he got this horrified look on his face. He was polite, but you could tell it was far more than he wanted to know. It must have been the rusty hook that did it.
Oh me, what's a ninjer to do?
 
Hey, don't knock the hook. I liked that hook.

Seriously, those patina covered instruments that were well loved that you pulled out of the cardboard box at the last gun show we went to reminded me of a childhood long past.

Lets just say I had an interesting childhood. ;)
 
Dave: I really wish you could discuss this, I am not an armchair ninja and I have huge respect for all martial arts. I post in the prac tac forum but only so much as I have practical experience. Ninjutsu is a fantastic system and not just for combat, hollywood bollocksed it to hell and back with their stupidity and really detracted from the truth of what it was designed to be. Like I said I train with a guy who went to Japan and trained and when he came back and the kind of person he is is amazing. I'd be most interested to talk about the parts you can, if you want to PM me please feel free :)
 
I gave up on the gun forums for much the same reason, Danny. So many on there are self-appointed experts and heros, or just have to be right, ugggg.
I am blessed that the folks on the BBQ forums I frequent are better mannered.
This forum is also filled with decent, down to earth folk, folks that spoil us in our expectations of what internet discourse can be.

DaddyDett
 
DannyinJapan said:
My brother asked me some things about it and I pulled out a box of antique weapons and started showing him some things and he got this horrified look on his face. He was polite, but you could tell it was far more than he wanted to know. It must have been the rusty hook that did it.
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Please, oh pleeze, do tell about the rusty hook!

I love hooks and have a small collection. In fact, there's one replacing my right hand . . . and the interchangable attachments get nastier and nastier.

I wanna hear about the rusty hook!!! :D
 
Hi Danny,

I have really appreciated the information I have been able to glean from you over the years. "moving correctly" and "physical fitness doesn't have much to do with it" are two that always come to mind.

I would seriously enjoy "listening" to anything you have to say on that subject, as well as try my best to ask the occasional intelligent question.

Thanks for how you contribute here.

I'll pray some more for you, too.

take care,

Tom
 
To be honest, Tom, martial arts are sort of like boiled-down, highly concentrated common sense. I am not sure which hook it was, but I have some pics up..
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It looks like some people from THR want to meet up at the Market Hall gun show on saturday. the rally point is the food court at noon. I am hoping to meet people earlier and shop together...
 
I don't have a Japanese MA background at all, my stuff is all from other MA disciplines (dunno if that is the word I wanted to use, disciplines hmm).

I will say this though, not wishing to offend. When the white supremacist movement in Western Australia was in it's hey day during the mid eighties (thankfully those days are gone) John Ang and his Ninja stood with other MA groups, including Gung Fu and Escrima etc and played the patience game with those misguided souls until they faded into obscurity. John, his guys and gals really impressed me with their humility and selflessness. Completely the picture you wish that Martial arts should be, without the ego and shameless grab for the $.
 
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