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Stephen K. Hayes – The Mystic Arts of the Ninja
The Mystic Arts of the Ninja by Stephen K.Hayes 160 pages First published on April 1, 1985 The language is English. The word “ninja” conjures up thoughts of mystery and might.
The mythology of the ninja is the ability to move quickly and stealthily, fascinate one’s prey, strike infallibly, and then vanish into the darkness.
The Mystic Arts of the Ninja focuses on the ninja’s virtually sorcerous qualities, as well as the unusual weaponry they wield.
Shidoshi is the author. Stephen K. Hayes is the only American to have received teaching qualifications from Japan’s 34th grandmaster of the Togokure School of Ninjutsu.
Hayes reveals the most sought-after secrets of his ninja training, going beyond the basic conditioning and training techniques in his best-selling Ninjutsu: The Art of the Invisible Warrior: Hypnotism: The ninja’s hypnotic skills, Saiminjutsu, are defined and explained.
Sample exercises are offered to assist you in developing your hypnotic abilities.
Stealth walking and camouflage are considered for invisibility.
Hayes shows how to travel silently through different types of terrain and how to blend in with your environment to become invisible.
Ninja trademarks include the Hanbo cane, sword, and the notorious shuriken throwing stars.
Hayes outlines its application in both gripping and attacking.
Throughout 400 black-and-white photographs are utilized to show the secrets and strategies employed by ninja to surprise and outsmart their opponents over the past 800 years.
Perhaps the most essential component of this book is the legitimacy of Shidoshi Hayes’ instruction: no other book portrays the actual ninja legacy.
Community Feedback:
This book has a little bit of everything in it.
How to walk softly, how to handle a sword or a rope appropriately.
It displays the “Hanbo” (half-staff) and the ninja-to (ninja sword).
It also digs a little into meditations and mental arts.
It’s similar to a salad bar in that there’s something for everyone.
This is an early work by the United States’ first shidoshi (licensed instructor) in the Bujinkan dojo’s nine martial arts schools.
It tells the interesting narrative of the Japanese hidden warriors known as ninja throughout history.
The book then goes through different facets of ninjutsu, including topics that aren’t typically taught nowadays, such as covert movement and escape.
A highly handy graphic showing the many kamae (postures) used when wielding a sword is included in the chapter on ninja weapons.
My only criticism is that several pages are devoted to presenting frame-by-frame images of taijutsu techniques, although video is a far more efficient method for teaching those techniques nowadays.
These skills are nearly tough to learn from a static snapshot.
Overall, this book is a worthwhile read for anybody interested in the history and more esoteric parts of ninjutsu.
Stephen K. Hayes has written a number of excellent works.
The Mystic Arts of the Ninja opens with a look at the history of ninjutsu and some of its most famous practitioners, including Hattori Hanzo, Fujibayashi Nagato, and Kato Danjo.
This historical perspective on ninjutsu is then contrasted with the narrow traditional picture of the day, which revolves around moonlight nights with black masked assassins slaughtering their opponents.
Following this historical overview, Stephen Hayes describes the Fu No Kata and how fighting techniques for self-defense differ greatly from the martial arts commonly taught in sport-focused institutions.
Japanese ninjutsu arose from the need for pragmatic self-defense against challenging odds during a period of continual civil conflict.
The Mystic Arts of the Ninja then go on to explain ninja aruhi stealth and ningu ninja implements such as the han-bo and ninja blade.
Both of these parts (as well as the whole book) feature several photographs that aid the reader in learning the skills presented.
The art of stealth and camouflage is studied next in-ton.
This chapter discusses gontonpo, or the five element hiding and fleeing tactics.
Gontonpo examines broad fighting and escape techniques via the lens of the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
Stephen Hayes goes on to talk about the shuriken.
Although shurikenjutsu is commonly viewed of as a “ninja weapon,” many other Ryu included it as part of their training.
However, we can see how the shuriken is used in the art of ninjutsu here.
The book finishes with a brief description of saiminjutsu, or ninja mind control.
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