[Omega]

Welcome to the forums! How's life in the art of invisibility?

[Unswydd]

Welcome to the boards.

[Cajunlady]

Welcome and know you will enjoy it here, bunch of great and knowledgeable people.

[sypher96792]

aloha and welcome to the forum

[crashdive123]

Hello and welcome.

[cowgirlup]

Thanks to you and Camdor for the ninja lesson/explaination!

[Baldninja]

No problem.

My best ninja line ever was when some random guy I was playing a game with on XBL asked if I was a real ninja, to which I replied "yes". He then stated that he'd never seen a real ninja before and didn't know they were still around, to which I replied: "Well, obviously. If you HAD seen a ninja, then he wasn't a real ninja, now was he..."

The easiest, quickest and most common term for explaining a ninja, by today's standards, would be guerilla warfare. Although a ninja, unlike traditional guerilla warfare combatants, is at home in any environment, not just his homeland.

Oh, someone had said something about the ninja possibly having been the inspiration of modern spec ops hand to hand training. While I'd agree, from the looks of it, they actually claim that it actually came from the Apache. Now, I'm not sure if at some point in history somehow ninjas and the Apache came into contact with each other, but the fighting styles are shockingly similar, especially when knife fighting. It is possible that they independently came up with almost identical fighting styles, but I've often wondered if the Apache had somehow met and learned from the ninja at some point. And with the nomadic nature of many ninja, that's not out of the realm of possibility.

[Camdor]

Originally Posted by Baldninja

No problem.

My best ninja line ever was when some random guy I was playing a game with on XBL asked if I was a real ninja, to which I replied "yes". He then stated that he'd never seen a real ninja before and didn't know they were still around, to which I replied: "Well, obviously. If you HAD seen a ninja, then he wasn't a real ninja, now was he..."

The easiest, quickest and most common term for explaining a ninja, by today's standards, would be guerilla warfare. Although a ninja, unlike traditional guerilla warfare combatants, is at home in any environment, not just his homeland.

Oh, someone had said something about the ninja possibly having been the inspiration of modern spec ops hand to hand training. While I'd agree, from the looks of it, they actually claim that it actually came from the Apache. Now, I'm not sure if at some point in history somehow ninjas and the Apache came into contact with each other, but the fighting styles are shockingly similar, especially when knife fighting. It is possible that they independently came up with almost identical fighting styles, but I've often wondered if the Apache had somehow met and learned from the ninja at some point. And with the nomadic nature of many ninja, that's not out of the realm of possibility.

I had noticed that as well.
What I had originally meant were the tactics but what you said regarding combat styles is also true and the Apache used similar tactics.

[Slade N. Illinois]

Well my new ninja friend, I do believe that the native american mostlikely crossed the Bering land bridge from asia to the new world. So it would stand to reason that the fighting style could have come about in much the same way. I haven't studied the way of the Shinobi or Ninjutsu very much but I learned Nagonłkaadí from my grandfather from a young age. (I also practice combat Muay Boran or Muay Thai) If I had to compare Nagonłkaadí I would say it's a bit like Ninjutsu from what I can tell but with more taunting! lol

[carolina168181]

Welcome BaldNinja to the board