Backyard Ninjas

[yohed55]

My "stage" consisted of me putting a bunch of plastic swords down my pants I didn't quite know what a saya was yet....

[rottunpunk]

hehe. ah i must be bored. just sent him the following message. awaiting reply-teehee

hey dude. i noticed your boken fighting videos on youtube.
they are so cool. i noticed you were teaching other people. so whos your teacher and do you know of any clubs in england i can join.
how long does it take to be as good as you are? i noticed yopu dont wear any padding. is this safe?
cheers

[rottunpunk]

hehe got a reply

''There are no clubs in England to learn this from unfortunately. My teachers are just different martial art schools. I've done kung fu and kendo and fencing and other vaious European martial arts. Not wearing protective gear is definately NOT the way to go. We just don't care enough to pay for them.
How long does it take to get good? Probably a year of good teaching and hardcore training. ^_^

Now that does not answer your true question. But look into Chanbara and join a dojo that teaches it and i think it should be sufficient.''

so what do i reply to this?

[lucy]

hehe got a reply

''There are no clubs in England to learn this from unfortunately. My teachers are just different martial art schools. I've done kung fu and kendo and fencing and other vaious European martial arts. Not wearing protective gear is definately NOT the way to go. We just don't care enough to pay for them.
How long does it take to get good? Probably a year of good teaching and hardcore training. ^_^

Now that does not answer your true question. But look into Chanbara and join a dojo that teaches it and i think it should be sufficient.''

so what do i reply to this?

He says he did kendo? That's a shame, really, why the hell does he do this stuff then??

No idea what to tell him...

His advice to look into chanbara is fairly reasonable, though, don't you think?

[stephanie dee]

Oh wow. I would love to be able to sit and watch that. It would be like the Romans and the Colosseum all over again, I could just cheer them on as they slowly kill each other, what a sport to watch!

''There are no clubs in England to learn this from unfortunately. My teachers are just different martial art schools. I've done kung fu and kendo and fencing and other vaious European martial arts. Not wearing protective gear is definately NOT the way to go. We just don't care enough to pay for them.
How long does it take to get good? Probably a year of good teaching and hardcore training. ^_^

At least he advises you to get protective gear, and to train hard.... But basically when he says hes done Kendo, he turned up like 3 times to some dojo then never went again...

As for a reply... dunno...

[rottunpunk]

hmmn, do i come out clean or play with him a bit more?

[lucy]

Tell him the truth, I'd say.

[Washington]

Well.. hopefully they will step up to real blades and we can nominate them for Darwin Awards

[Kitsune]

these are

after all

kids

we all passed this

stage

at some point

Sure, my sweet argentino guy, when I was 6 years old and with a plastic sword...
But this guy is 29, so ain't a kid and ain't a plastic sword.

[F0cUzzzz]

When I first joined this forum a couple of weeks ago, I just read threads for a few days to get caught up and to see what was here. I found a number of threads full of attacks against "backyard ninjas" and I thought "these guys are harsh", "why don't they cut this guy a break?" and so on. I mean not everbody has access to Kendo or a good teacher. Many of us had our sword fight fantasies as kids and played as Knights or Samurai throughout our childhood. It was when I stumbled accross this guy that I began to understand the difference between childish play and serious training. At a certain age the childish playtime is over and it's time to train. In an uncontrolled environment this can be dangerous for yourself and others. Without the teacher the background and subtleties of the dojo you are really just hitting people with sticks. You could get quite fast and even come up with a few good "waza" if you will. But replace this stick wtih a sword and suddenly none of these invented techniques are worth a dime.

The difference between playing at sword fighting or hitting each other with sticks and Kendo is that Kendo trains a person for REAL sword work. Replace the stick in the non-kendo (or other art) attack and it's just bashing with a different implement. You may be able to train your body for fast reaction and to see and react to openings but no matter how you try to rationalize it, it's just not sword work.

[ScottUK]

Focuz,

What's your favourite band?

[F0cUzzzz]

Focuz,

What's your favourite band?

I don't have a favourite. But I like Bad Religion, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, The Greatful Dead, Eric Tessmer Band, Phoenix, and many more. I listen to a fairly broad range of music from punk to hardcore to funk and jazz. I guess it just depends on wether I'm listening to the message or the mood.

[ScottUK]

Cool, now imagine some wankers on YouTube named themselves Maynard, Adam, Justin and Danny and pretended to be Tool, but obviously weren't - and they were shit. Would you be pissed with them?

[keima]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m-8ZqqKNX8
the link on the topic of discussion. THAT IS NOT ME!!!


Dear kendokas
I am the "back yard ninja" that you guys have been talking about.
Yes, I did have recorded matches against a shodan.

And to prove that hes a shodan
http://www.boston-kendo.com/html/body_news.html
his name is danilo V. Check this for his shodan exam 2 years ago.

http://www.boston-kendo.com/html/body_news_archive.html
http://www.boston-kendo.com/html/body_auskf_2005_4.html
http://www.boston- kendo.com/html/body_aeuskf_spring_2005_1.html (far right)
Heres where the pictures came from
http://www.boston-kendo.com/html/body_news.html

These are my matches against him:
score: 2 win 1 lose against him
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJJ-HL5SXnA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2XrggIRzk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ompspBgyAMc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzaPYxd5TJU


Now let me explain myself before you all decide to kill me:
I do not want to hurt anyone. The Bokkens were padded and plus we pull our attacks on the men and tsuki. My training, you guys all well know. What i am about is mixed martial arts duels. ie. Chinese sword styles vs jap. This includes putting asian arts against European styles, etc. THese are some of the events that i am talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaYZI3oCfuA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi7TAQOWhKc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QPXYXPrXlU

As for protective gear, we ARE suposed to be wearing it, we just dont feel like it. And everyone who spars with me I tell them to do so but since they dont then ....
And another thing is the COST, kendo bogu is like 500 bux man.. cant afford that... when we do wear gear tho, we use replacements of taekwondo and karate and kung fu sparring ones, these styles we all practiced our whole lives.

Sorry for any offence i did to kendo (which i still practice, i just dont prefer the style when it comes to duels)

PS, we all trained with real swords (katas of various forms) so its not like we dont know what we are doing...

yohed55 wrote:
> Hey what do ya know! He is a shodan. sorry for bothering you. Why don't you ask him to set you up with a sparring match with somebody else at his dojo who is at least a 3rd dan.

and no we are not fighting our senseis and sempais in fact we dont want them to know we are doing this. IT IS DISRESPECT!!! I already gave this talk to so many people.

AND AGAIN PLEASE PASS ON MY MSGS to the kendo federation or whatever.

[keima]

And i encourage all of you who live in the East Coast of USA to have a duel with me. Fighting different people and different styles only helps u learn ur own weakness at I did. If you have any questions for me email me: ShadowAvatar@gmail.com. And Rottunpunk, i knew u were just testing me, i mean who is dumb enough to say that my videos were cool? They were at that time all against beginers. But nonetheless, the advice i gave you would be the same if you were just some misled youth who took an interest in sword training. And yohed55 knows my password so if i say anything stupid u know he did it. ^_^ (just wait until you guys see the videos where we used jujutsu in kendo, NOW THATS A MARTIAL ART not that such a video exists but when u guys clintch, u'll know waht i mean)