Everybody Wants To Be a Ninja...Until THIS!
by Dai-Shihan Jeffrey M. Miller SPS, DTI
While brainstorming some cool sayings for our T-shirt collection over at WCIDragonsDen.com, one of my team members came up with this one:
"Everyone wants to be a Ninja, Until it's time to do Ninja Shit!"
"Everyone Wants to Be a Ninja Until It's Time to Do Ninja Shit" T-shirt. Available on WCIDragonsDen.com
And he was right because, not only did that slogan become a T-shirt design... it's also something I've noticed across the years since I started training in this self-protection and life-mastery system in 1981.
In fact, one of the things that attracted me, and a WHOLE bunch of other professional law enforcement and security, military, and other's with an imperative need for something beyond the sport, recreational, and other conventional offerings of the time...
...was the diversity of skill sets. And, I don't just mean fight skills either. I mean skills for handling a wide variety of hazards and dangerous (as well as "life" situations).
But, as we humans tend to do when we want something... but only if it's the way WE think it should be... or at least good enough for the work we're willing to put in... things changed.
But, they didn't just change... things were dropped, and continued to be "discarded" until we have what we have today... a mere shadow of the shadow warrior's art... if that's even possible. Some have even used the term "watered down."
But, while many have gone the way of turning Ninjutsu into a "style," there are those few of us (called "Old School" by those making fun of us) still hold onto the art as it was originally passed down, and before it spread to the masses. Back when the art included training in:
- Wilderness survival skills
- traditional and modern weapons
- esoteric studies for better understanding of one's self
- water and other outdoor scenario-based training
- stealth and henso-jutsu (disguise and impersonation)
- Kuji and Mikkyo
- ...and, trust me... a LOT more!
Things that REALLY gave a Ninja more than an advantage in a fist fight... but the ability to survive... whatever came his or her way (Takamatsu-Sensei's first real lesson to Hatsumi)! "Can You Survive?"
If this "old school" training is something you're interested in, you may have heard of a training framework from the old days (I mean, like Sengoku Jidai 'Warring States' period, old days) called the 8 Gates of the Ninja, or the Ninja no Hachimon.
And...
...while you can certainly look up the list on probably a hundred different websites, what most can't give you is the historical context converted to principles and concepts that can then be translated into today's world of the 21st century.
That's exactly what I did when I created my very first online Ninjutsu training program (if it wasn't the first online Ninjutsu program... it was easily in the first THREE) by the same name. It answers the question:
How can you truly train in something that you don't fully understand?
You can check out all the details HERE. It contains well over 18 hours of training across 10 modules and is the perfect start for the warrior-protector who wants to know that they not only know what real Ninjutsu is about, but they don't fall for every scam artist who throws the word "Ninja" on whatever they're selling.
Either way, if you haven't already done so, do a Google search on this ancient framework that was an absolute requirement for determining what was, and what was NOT authentic Ninjutsu by the past Masters. That way you'll know if that's what you're really doing, or if it's just a part of the full power and legacy of the Ninja Night Warrior's we all strive to live up to and become!
See you on the other side!
In Mastery!
Dai-Shihan Miller
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