I find flipping far bigger dudes (I'm pretty skinny and only 5'7") pretty tough from my tries hehe.. sideways if I'm lucky haha.. I need more stomach strength :( bloody Crohn's disease makes it hard, my gut is crap all the time

When it becomes more about sport, I think it loses a lot of its practicality through rules and technical hit concepts

Love kendo, I wish I had the opportunity to have done it :) Looks so fun! I love the vocalisations.

I like to watch Satsuke and dream :)

i would call that drunken master sounds better :P

It can help! It softens the blows of injuries at least I think :) at least for while you're drunk! I'm light weight with the alcohol though.. I can drink heaps if I want to, but I get so little pleasure out of it. I think my body's just not made for the stuff..

You train with katanas?
I've always wanted to do that, but there's nowhere I can around here.

The funniest thing at my ninja school was when a noob/friend of mine started, richie rich kid, he got his parents to buy him a katana. Of course they train with ninjatos :)

I would really like to learn a bit of krav maga, systema, sambo or some other type of combat style training.. to enhance my current MA experiences

I think I need to study this more since the girls I am dating are a few years younger than me nowadays lol. Back in my day, we played ninja turtles at primary school.. then it became power rangers when I was in high school and then started laughing at the young kids playing power rangers which the wobbly enemies.. so I kind of missed out on the whole Yu-Gi-Pokie-Beyblade-Mon thing :)

Rugby gives you giant ass-kicking leg muscles at least :) I always wanted to do Ice Hockey to practice my flipping peoples and collisions, as well as kinetic transfer. But only could afford inline hockey, which was lame, mixed gender and non-contact.. not to mention really really hot in lots of pads and no ice..

Haha, I still try to get active. I have Crohn's disease too.. I decided early on my main intention in life is music production/performance.. nowadays feel more music is a tool for shamanic healing and I am called to a shamanic apprenticeship, preferably in Tanu Tuva, where they focus on music rather than drugs for healing and ritual. North or South America would be a nice backup option though. I want to do so many styles. I started at age 5 with Zen Do Kai, then Go Ju Ru Karate, Go Ju Kai, Tai Kwon Do, Ninjutsu, some other Karate variant, archery, weapons training. I would love to get back into Ninja but I feel the best things for my conditions would be something like Aikido, where use other's force.. so I have something to fall back on if I am in chronic pain and need to fight. A lot of other styles spark my interest, I'll make a list of them soon. I really want to practice some more freerunning/parkour techniques, as I feel this is a good part of modern 'holistic' warrior training with a ninja feel :)

p.s. I'm not dissing digital ninjas, just coming from the jaded 'fauxriginal' gaijin ninja style, claiming original ninja titling :) also I don't play much at all, I just leave games running to get my steam hours played for the fortnight counter up to some silly high amount. I don't think there's anything wrong with digital ninja'ing.. just like there are heaps of different versions of 'pirates'.. digital, somali, historical. Then there are people like Captain Dan & The Scurvy Crew for instance :)

Finally, I be default can never be a 'true' ninja. For one thing, I chose 'artist/shaman/healer' in this life over that of the warrior. Also, I have so many little stupid physical issues, I couldn't really be stealthy, with wheezy asthma, clicky ankles, blah blah blah lol. But, I shall always be a 'ninja in training' and that's kind of fun :) at least being honest, will never be a master or even just a plain old regular ninja, have to specify the trainee bit hehe. Also, anyone that either a) has ninja in their name or b) claims to be a ninja, can clearly NOT be a ninja, since one of the main points of being a ninja is disguise and not revealing your identity or lair/ninja house. So once you say you are a ninja, you can't actually be one :) also I loved Last Ninja early on and used that for a bunch of website handles, but found a producer already with the name.. so decided to go with Ninja Gaijin for my music production. So i'm a music game playing ninja, that's not much of a ninja but it's good to have the training, almost got mugged last week and used misdirection and some other elements of ninja psychological techniques to diffuse the situation, rather than inflate it to violence. It reminded me how glad I am I had all the training I did and how I long for more. I keep practicing at home. I ride my bike and dance a lot too so I get some exercise at least. I like to think my music represents the sounds of ninjas sparring and/or playing video games about ninjas. http://soundcloud.com/ninja-gaijin

It makes me sad that ninja weapons are pretty much entirely illegal in Australia, even for martial arts training purposes, without heavy license fees and 2 yearly renewal and need to be a licensed sensai running a dojo or something..very lame and now don't see much weapons training around. Which is lame for a ninja at least..

p.p.s. and I'm actually trying to play less games than ever.. it's a bit of an addiction since the mid 80s.. along with the internet since 95. So I am trying to focus on my health rather than playing games... which means I have about a zillion games to catch up on.

What about a 3rd dan in Zumba? :)

My dream dancing is a bunch of people, padded like ice hockey players and with helmets on, then combining slam dancing/moshing, skanking, break-dancing and capoeira. So everyone would pinging around on their heads and bouncing off each other like in a pinball machine.

You're such a jackass.

[Practitioner of some martial art I don't do] is nothing compared to [martial arts I do]

This kind of BS is what gives Martial Arts as a whole a bad name.

Psh, my Choy Li Fut could destroy your Shotakan! Seriously, my Sifu could kill a man with a punch!

Dude, a 2 year old can kill a man with a punch, we're extremely fragile creatures.

I really want to do Aikido, I have heard wonderful things.. especially that I have some physical problems, I think it would be very useful for when I can't do 'hard' styles/attacks..

I have to watch this show I think :) or read the manga :)

It was funny going from tai kwon do to ninja, the sensai said they were 'chalk and cheese' but I think that is an overstatement considering they both have very similar core moves.. just ninja goes a lot further!!

Yeah, you were awesome yesterday :*

Well arguably delta force, pathfinders and other elite police and military counter-terrorist units are the equivalent of modern ninjas, doing covert/black operations and using the sorts of broad and diverse range of skillsets and guerrilla tactics that ninjas were the first to ever pioneer. I mean, the Romans did some great stuff with tactics, there have been other guerrilla style military actions prior to the ninjas in history, but the ninjas really did it best, for a very long time. Counter-terrorist trained officers and soldiers are really the most similar thing we have to ninjas in the modern age... working actively that is, apart from: the actual secret societies in Japan and Asia which still employ authentic, Japanese ninjas (from what I have heard..still real killers) and those that train and teach the skills publicly, particularly the last Japanese grand master alive. As for free-running, it is to me a great way to incorporate modern environments into training for martial arts. Many martial arts are based on knowledge which is sometimes centuries or older. I think incorporation of freerunning/parkour techniques into the regime of a 'ninja in training' is not a bad idea personally.. I honestly would NEVER claim to be something I'm not, I will never be a 'true ninja', or practice 'true ninjutsu'. Unless I somehow was lucky enough to train under the publicly known Japanese grand master, even then it would be a contemporary version which incorporates modern weapons and tactics (as it should and active ninjas would, using whatever tools are necessary to complete the task). I am personally not seeking for 'true original ninjutsu'. I also accept my former school has gone REALLY lame.. http://www.khninja.com/ . lots of things have gone wrong with them in the 9 years since I last trained.. and were never authentic to begin with. I call it 'Australianised ninjutsu' haha. Because good ol' Kev's given you the keys. Not that he's that bad but it looks a bit kiddy from their recent photos and ever since weapon training got thrown out. There are other schools, more authentic dojos around my city, but I want to try some new styles soon.. I'll list them soon, there are so many unique styles which fascinate me and I want to dabble in..

hee hee hee matt over gloss any day

Krav Maga and things like Systema are good adjuncts in my opinion to a main martial art form or training.. it adds a lot to current skills and strength, but I think it is perhaps not so useful for those which do not have a previous background in martial arts. Otherwise it is a bit quick and dirty style, effective and simple and easy to remember with body reflexes.. but it's a very specific style for certain things, and not often I hope you will need to try to do a gun disarm etc!!! I would love to learn a little though.. to pick and choose some things to add to my repertoire :)

It's so fast, I would like to try some Kung Fu or Thai kickboxing for strength and speed..I think might be hard to unlearn some stuff after so much karate/tai kwon do though, for me!!