Originally Posted by
wiz cool c
For both side of the argument it is difficult to prove one way or the other,. There are those that say Ninja didn't do this and that a long time ago and those {that actually train in the art] that say they do. Who knows for sure? Was anyone on this message board in ancient Japan at the time of the historical ninja?
For me it is simple, Masaaki Hatsumi is a well know master of 6 historically proven authentic Japanese styles, he learned them from To****sugu Takamatsu. A grandmaster of 6 traditional styles wouldn't need to add three fake ninja ryus to his curriculum. And if you have actually trained in the Bujinkan for any amount of time you can feel the authenticness of such style. Beside creating a time machine and traveling back in time there would be no way to be 100% sure the ninja methods Hatsumi or his teacher Takamatsu taught him were actually done by the ninja, but based on the fact that Hatsumi is teaching 6 proven authentic Japanese traditional arts mixed in with three ninja ryus is enough to convince me. There is a lot more proof here that the Ninja styles are authentic than the latter , someone saying ”hey the ninja styles are fake”
Now do these techniques work in modern time? I have used the methods taught in Ninjutsu several times to defend myself as well as avoid danger. And in the ever changing times ,who knows we might need to use such skills as being able to move in the dark, move silently and survive in the wilderness, not to mention first aid and using various object as improvised weapons.