Whats ninjutsu?

i went around looking at karate stuff and ppl said ninjutsu is better for todays streetfighting.what is ninjutsu?|||What those people said is idiotic: Karate has, and will always be a good Martial Art style (Not that any are better than another, but Karate %26quot;Ain%26#039;t no sucka%26quot; :p).





Ninjitsu is actually a misnomer on two levels. Firstly:


The unarmed combat part of Ninjitsu is actually called one of the following:


(Budo) Taijitsu/Ninpo/Bujinkan


Ninjitsu is the totality of Ninja Espionage Martial Arts. It includes everything from weapons training, unarmed combat, disguise, to stealth training and more.





As for being another Misnomer: It is virtually a mix of various Martial Arts.


It is said that the grappling sense of is taken from Jujutsu and Judo, which would make sense because the Samurai (The enemies of the Ninja) practiced jujutsu as an art.





As for the striking: I can%26#039;t say what style of Martial Arts the striking area is taken from (Because Bujinkan teaches vital point striking [Where nerves are exposed for example] as a major component, and not just straightforward attacks to various areas), but some would say the kicking has a sort of Karate/Muay Thai styling to it, as the hand strikes are also mixed between various arts.





The art combines fighting on all ranges (Though it%26#039;s mostly for close-combat), which is why I think people consider it %26quot;Better.%26quot; Any combination of fighting in various ranges is good, though: Whether you take multiple arts or a hybrid art like Bujinkan.





There%26#039;s a lot of controversy as to whether it virtually exists, but that%26#039;s said about many arts. I haven%26#039;t seen much beyond people saying %26quot;All the ninjas are dead%26quot; being a reason to say it%26#039;s fake. Those nerve strikes aren%26#039;t, however. :P





I%26#039;ve observed the style on a few occasions. It is pretty good as an all-arounder. Most people interpret Karate as being strictly striking (Which is only true for a few styles), and that%26#039;s why I think they tend to judge as being inferior. Many styles teach fighting on all ranges, however. I think another reason it is thought is because Karate is thought of as a generic term for what some once again consider inferior, while Ninjitsu is shrouded in mystery. They expect a Bujinkan practitoner to jump off of walls, when the reality is they will wait for the right moment to strike, lock, and immobilize (If they are legitimate... :p I don%26#039;t know if Bujinkan is immune to McDojoism...).|||sirmrmagic summed up the history pretty well but to add on a few things he missed. there are plenty of other ninjitsu lineages other than bujinkan like genbukan and jinenkan. i am a bujinkan memeber myself and i believe that grandmaster Hatsumi teaches a slightly modified style. im not sure about the other two organizations and their teachings but im sure those three are the top authorities on ninjitsu|||Perhaps you heard of Ninja





Ninjutsu literally means %26quot;stealth technique%26quot;. Ninjutsu is the heading name for traditional Japanese schools of fighting arts which have been created in the Japanese provinces Iga or Koga. These lands, rough and dominated by mountains, were places of refuge for refugees, hermits, lordless samurai (ronin) and religious minorities. To defend themselves and their families they developed unique fighting techniques, which later on became different fighting styles. During these times the specialized assasins known as ninja used advanced ninjutsu techniques in their stealth attacks. At one period of time there existed more than 70 different schools, and often only the elite members of family clans trained students at the multiple schools. Only a few schools of teachings in certain ninjutsu-based fighting styles reached the modern day. These remaining schools were taught by Takamatsu Sensei, the former Soke, to his successor Masaaki Hatsumi and are now trained in the Bujinkan Ninjutsu System. (Most other Ninjutsu schools in the world today come from this line. The others probably died out.)|||Nijutsu and Nijitsu are a way of life so is Aikido the %26quot;Ninja%26quot; were the samuria%26#039;s enemy|||its the fighting style were you try to stay hidden basically you practice how to be an assasin ninjutsu(ninja sound framiliar) and if your going the street fighting route do something like muay thai or some an offensive fighting style or if you just want to protect yourself do akido or something like that.|||http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bujinkan|||It%26#039;s make-believe. You might as well want to be a Jedi.|||complete crap|||Ninjitsu is not a style. Ninjas used many different fighting styles. I would imagine that if someone is a %26quot;Ninjitsu%26quot; trainer, what that means is that he is not authorized to teach any legitimate style, and will be training you in some off brand bs.





I studied open handed okinawan style (Shorin-Ryu) and Judo. A good combination for grappling/general fighting.|||The sirmrmagic answered it best so did the other long one, but you may want to check out Wing Chun Do it%26#039;s derived from Wing Chun and Bruce Lee, it%26#039;s the quickest way to defend yourself. Nijutsu and Nijitsu are a way of life so is Aikido which I hold ranking in all three. You dedicate your life to it%26#039;s teaching and takes a very long time for it%26#039;s so complicated. I love Aikido, %26quot;the way of harmony%26quot; by far it%26#039;s one of the most unique martial arts or even a science, it%26#039;s being like water instead of steel.|||There may be a traditional japanese Ninjitsu, but I have never personally met anyone that practices it. The american %26quot;ninjitsu%26quot; schools are all based off cinema. They are movie based martial artists who take ideas from many martial arts, Jujitsu (Japanese) Taekwondo (Korean) and Karate (Okinawan) can be found in their style, which if it were ancestrally Japanese as they claim, would only have Jujitsu. My theory, if there were actual Ninjas, they would have been Samurai, not as the movies say, the enemy of Samurai. But, I%26#039;m still skeptical as to whether to not Traditional Ninjas exist. Modern eclectic styles though, can be quite effective. Just judge what you see by the dojo, and the teacher, and not by the style.