Hello,
i've been discussing this lately with a couple of supaninjas and find it rather interesting
in hayes/hatsumi:ninjutsu history and tradition it says:
i'll speak for myself:all my life i've been the ultraskinny,ultraweak but ULTRAflexible kid in neighboorhood.its only natural i guess that over the years of my musha shygyo i've developed a style where i use my flexibility to overcome the strength of the big guys.i do this in two ways(generalization):a)i mingle my hands with his or my legs with his and take stange,yogic-like "kamaes" and they cant follow so they break their posture and become vulnerable(if they havent already fallen)
b)when i play with the really BIG bad wolves my style is almost acrobatic: lots of sutemi where i jump and grab them with my legs.Or let them do nage and do acrobatic escapes so that i dont have to break their postures,they do it for me!Or combining splits with ultralow postures to cover ridiculusly big distances really quickly and overwhelm them(very difficult to describe in words but very hilarious to watch,i swear!)
so,in "my ninpo" flexibility is very important but the problem is this:i know i wont be able to fight like this when i'm 40 years old.And where will all this neato elito sutemi stuff take me in a multiopponent situation?i'm pretty sure these issues will fix themselves if i "just keep going" but how important do you think flexibility is in the way,eg Hatsumi fights?
Oh, and what about my initial question?(the emoticon in the title was meant to come here,its my first post)
Forgive my incomprehensible writing,its done in a brainstorming fashion,feel free to do the same
cheers
i've been discussing this lately with a couple of supaninjas and find it rather interesting
in hayes/hatsumi:ninjutsu history and tradition it says:
whats your take on this?how important do you think flexibility is for ninpo and why?in togakure training strength is generated through flexibility
i'll speak for myself:all my life i've been the ultraskinny,ultraweak but ULTRAflexible kid in neighboorhood.its only natural i guess that over the years of my musha shygyo i've developed a style where i use my flexibility to overcome the strength of the big guys.i do this in two ways(generalization):a)i mingle my hands with his or my legs with his and take stange,yogic-like "kamaes" and they cant follow so they break their posture and become vulnerable(if they havent already fallen)
b)when i play with the really BIG bad wolves my style is almost acrobatic: lots of sutemi where i jump and grab them with my legs.Or let them do nage and do acrobatic escapes so that i dont have to break their postures,they do it for me!Or combining splits with ultralow postures to cover ridiculusly big distances really quickly and overwhelm them(very difficult to describe in words but very hilarious to watch,i swear!)
so,in "my ninpo" flexibility is very important but the problem is this:i know i wont be able to fight like this when i'm 40 years old.And where will all this neato elito sutemi stuff take me in a multiopponent situation?i'm pretty sure these issues will fix themselves if i "just keep going" but how important do you think flexibility is in the way,eg Hatsumi fights?
Oh, and what about my initial question?(the emoticon in the title was meant to come here,its my first post)
Forgive my incomprehensible writing,its done in a brainstorming fashion,feel free to do the same
cheers