Kyujutsu Part 1- Shiho Chi Ten & Nagare Hanare

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• published: 06 Feb 2014
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Kyujutsu archery methods are too often left out of Ninpo training today when this was and should be today, a PRIMARY weapon of the ninja for distance, silent attacks that allows the ninja practitioner a means to strike and remove multiple targets quickly and while keeping oneself hidden, with enough time for escape and evasion. The focus of Ninpo being to stay alive and to keep distance between you and the enemy and to remain unseen and hidden in the attack against an enemy whether we're talking feudal age castle attack or modern age, home defense or hunting methods against a hostile animal. This is why Masaaki Hatsumi has named his art of Ninpo - The Art of Distance! Kyujutsu is one of the BEST weapons for the ninja who were spies and bodyguards before anything....to use in combat. A silent feudal age sniper weapon. A very intimidating weapon in the middle of a night where the ninja's position is difficult to be known with the first shot. History has been contorted to create them like the Indians...as the cowards and losers when the truth is...without the ninja, the wages of war would have been FAR different! As no leader with rivals would ever even think of not having spies and bodyguards. There is also a moral code to the art as I mention in my videos and as taught by the Grandmasters of this style of combat that has a history dating back 3000 years into China and 1500 years into Japan. Ninpo Taijutsu is a combination of many martial arts and weapons and few stay with it long enough to make it a life-style. The assassin image of the ninja was like the savage image of the Indians, created by the writers of history and the movies. In truth, they were a people who fought for the freedoms and liberties of their people. To eventually be noticed as formidable fighters and intelligence gatherers as spies. As is the meaning behind the term Shinobi. Expert in the ways of gathering information. It should be...that if you practice the art, live it also...by the "code of conduct" written by the Grandmasters of the art. Otherwise, you are not being true to your art of which you claim to practice, teach to others or to master.