heretic888
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sojobow said:Perhaps is it because some truth was within the post whether one admits it or not?
Or, perhaps you were presenting the point-of-view of your school and trying to pass it off as applying to all American ninjutsu.
sojobow said:First Statement: "*Neo-Ninjitsu ryu ha trace their "roots" to the Sun Tzu era and specificly to Tzu's "Art of War. To a Neo, this is the beginning of the evolution of the moniker "Ninjitsu";"
First off, none of the groups being represented here are a "ryuha".
Secondly, the "roots" of all the arts covered here are either in the Takamatsu-den or other modern martial arts schools. None of these guys just cracked open Sun Tzu one day, and decided to make up a martial art based on it. They learned their stuff from other, contemporary sources.
Of course, what is more than likely is that they are using a superficial translation of Sun Tzu to fabricate some false claim of authority. Which, frankly, is what seems to be going on here. But, the catcher is that this claim for authority is retroactive --- i.e., Sun Tzu "wisdom" is applied as a "source" for the art after the art has already been created from other sources.
Ta ta.