Help with a Ninjutsu question?

Ok, i want to start learning ninjutsu, but I don%26#039;t want to just learn Tiajutsu, I want to learn the other aspects of it, such as Shinobi Iri. Does anyone have any clue on where to learn this inside of the US? At this time I cannot afford to travel outside of the US. Or how about DvDs for starters? I know most people think Von Donk is a idiot, but does he teach anything else other then Tiajutsu in his DvDs? |||most of the ninjitsu in US is all mcdojo%26#039;s.|||Bluto%26#039;s article is pretty good, however, it%26#039;s not saying anything that could criticize the Ninjutsu itself and some of the things in there are very wrong. There%26#039;s tons of fake Ninjutsu gyms in America so be careful. But as it is said in the article of what Bluto wrote, %26quot;Calling yourself a Ninja is like calling yourself a knight%26quot; is wrong. Ninja was pretty much hired most of the time temporarily, and they were hired for spying, assassinating, body guard, etc. Samurai would be the only similar term to a knight.


So far, every article I ever came across on the internet for Ninjutsu has a lot of flaws and mistakes so I wouldn%26#039;t base any of my knowledge on those. Even in Japan, there%26#039;s hardly any real gyms that teaches Ninjutsu, so how could there possibly be so many Ninjutsu instructor in the US? Also, Taijutsu is a term just like the word martial arts and not a style.|||In Japanese %26quot;Ninja J奴hakkei%26quot; that according to Bujinkan[7] members the eighteen disciplines (j奴hakkei %26lt; j奴hachi-kei) were first stated in the scrolls of Togakure-ry奴. Subsequently they became definitive for all ninjutsu schools by providing total training of the warrior in various fighting arts and disciplines.





Ninja j奴hakkei was often studied along with Bugei J奴happan (the %26quot;18 samurai fighting art skills%26quot;). Though some are used in the same way by both samurai and ninja other techniques were used differently by the two groups.





The 18 disciplines are[8]:





Seishin-teki ky艒y艒 (spiritual refinement)


Taijutsu (unarmed combat, using one%26#039;s body as the only weapon)


Kenjutsu (sword fighting)


B艒jutsu (stick and staff fighting)


Shurikenjutsu (throwing shuriken)


S艒jutsu (spear fighting)


Naginatajutsu (naginata fighting)


Kusarigamajutsu (kusarigama fighting)


Kayakujutsu (pyrotechnics and explosives)


Hens艒jutsu (disguise and impersonation)


Shinobi-iri (stealth and entering methods)


Bajutsu (horsemanship)


Sui-ren (water training)


B艒ryaku (tactic)


Ch艒h艒 (espionage)


Intonjutsu (escaping and concealment)


Tenmon (meteorology)


Chi-mon (geography)


Today the main focus of ninjutsu deals with the techniques relevant to armed and unarmed combat. [9]





|||It%26#039;s funny, but you really can%26#039;t learn one without the other. Taijutsu first, then ninjutsu. You%26#039;d have no concept of how to apply ninjutsu without first learning proper taijutsu.





Where to learn:


http://www.winjutsu.com/winlinks.html





Also, Van Donk%26#039;s site has a list of dojo. He%26#039;s a good guy, just a little... eccentric. His DVDs won%26#039;t teach you what you want to know, and any source you%26#039;d find to teach you what you want to know without first grounding you in the basics is either illegitimate or beyond your skills level.





Find a teacher and train. You will get to learn those things, but only when you no longer care about them. (I have no idea how better to explain that... You learn what you need to know, but not when you want to.)|||Have you tried Utube? might get that mysticism that surrounds the subject out of the way, plenty of books out there try amazon, teachers are far and few, try another Martial art you will then have a good base to build from assuming you are new to the arts. Hoep that gives you some new ideas anyway|||http://www.bullshido.com/articles/ninjut...





ins and outs of the bujinkan.|||You can%26#039;t learn ninjitsu without learning taijitsu. It would be akin to building a house without a foundation.