My 2 Cents:
The ninja craze of the 80's also involved a lot of SKH togakura-ryu articles, with him standing in kamae so rigid he looked as to have a pole inserted where poles don't go, always demo-ing stealth maneuvers in broad daylight in black jammies. Got to where you couln't pick up a copy of a martial arts magazine without there being an article by he or his kin.
I wish I could recall them as the good ole days, but...I never really could get on board with the BJK kamae & basics. Too unpleasant on the bod after years of kenpo. Went almost a whole decade trying to find a MA mag that did NOT have a ninjutsu article in it. I remember a kenpo instructor...oddly enough, addressing the lack of integrity in lineage for ninjutsu...who said if it got any worse, he was just going to paint the entire dojo black, and sit in the middle on a divan watching burning incense...he was sure people would pay to join him, as long as he said "it's ninjutsu".
Commercialism meets tradition, on an order of magnitude.
