What were the stages of training a samurai?
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ummm, i'm not really sure.  i guess if you wanted to find out what samurai did, i'd recommend a visit to japan. =)
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The samurai has much better technology with respect to sword-making, but the knight wears much better, heavier armor.\n\nI think that in a one on one battle on foot, a knight in full-plate armor with a greatsword could take a samaurai.  A greatsword should be strong enough that it won't break against the katana.  He'll have reach, and the samaurai will have trouble hurting him.  The samaurai's armor is mostly leather reinforced with some metal.
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kata is an important part of learning,most lower ranks find this hard to believe or just dont understand(which is expected)its not until you reach shodan that you start to get an idea what you are really learning from it.ive never heard it reffered to as a simulated street fight? martial arts is a never ending journey of learning no matter what your rank or title is.\ntai chi is the remnants of a once powerful martial art with its origins in india.said to be the origin of martial arts?also said to be the most powerful martial art.it's not taught that way anymore.there may be someone out there that teaches it that way?i dont necsacarily agree with this im just tellin you my understanging of it.
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Considering how most "ninjas" today read too much Ashida Kim and watch so many Naruto episodes, I'll take both hits at once. And considering that the ninja will most likely be using his "chi" to perform those moves, I can just punch him in the face a few times to knock some sense into him. If that fails, I can always just take him to the ground and apply some kind of choke or something.
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got to http://ninjutsu.com/ there is a link for schools around the world . if not you can ask richard
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http://www.bullshido.com/articles/ninjutsu-8.html\n\nHave a go at this site. You'll learn a few useful things about ninjas.
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Everything is easy when you know how.  Follow the guidance of your Sensei in matters of training...He will know when you are ready (that's what you pay him for!)
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During the Heian period, the emperor's army was disbanded and the emperor's power gradually declined. While the emperor was still the ruler, powerful clans around Kyoto (京都) assumed positions as ministers and their relatives bought positions as magistrates to collect taxes. To repay their debts and amass wealth they often imposed heavy taxes and many farmers were forced to leave their lands. Regional clans grew powerful by offering lower taxes to their subjects as well as freedom from conscription. These clans armed themselves to repel other clans and magistrates from collecting taxes and they eventually formed themselves into armed parties and became samurai.\n\nThe samurai came from guards of the imperial palace and from private guards that the clans employed and acted as a police force in and around Kyoto. These forerunners of what we now know as samurai had ruler-sponsored equipment and were required to hone their martial skills. They were saburai, servants, yet their advantage of being the sole armed party increasingly became apparent. By promising protection and gaining political clout through political marriages they amassed power, eventually surpassing the ruling aristocrats.\n\nSome clans were originally farmers that had been driven to arms to protect themselves from the imperially appointed magistrates sent to govern their lands and collect taxes. These clans formed alliances to protect themselves against more powerful clans and by the mid-Heian period, they had adopted Japanese-style armor and weapons and laid the foundation of bushido, their famous ethical code.\n\n\n\nOne of the earliest roots of ninja, Togakure Ryū, reportedly originated in the late Heian Period. Iga and Kōga are two of the most famous ninja styles, and are often pitted against each other in fiction. Some also say that they were allies and worked together in mutual defense pacts. Both of these claim that they originated in the Heian period.\n\nOnly a few records remain from the Kamakura period. Kusunoki Masashige used tactics against enemies that remotely resemble ninja tactics. From the Muromachi period there are even fewer records. Both of these times were generally peaceful, and many battles had tournament-like aspects that prevented surprise attacks. Somewhere in these time periods, bushido began to form as the proper and honorable way a samurai must follow. It would be well into the Edo period that bushido was finally formalized.\n\nIn the Sengoku Period, also known as the Warring States period, ninja supposedly flourished. Almost all famous daimyō are said by modern ninja schools to have had ninja, or a ninja-like group under his control and they served as eyes and ears. Some daimyō were reportedly ninja themselves. The clan of Sanada, the most famous member being Sanada Yukimura, was reportedly a ninja clan. This is attributed to the successful defense of their castle with approximately 3,000 soldiers against an overwhelming force of 50,000 led by Tokugawa Hidetada. Their tactics, which are said to have included splitting their house in two, one each supporting Toyotomi and Tokugawa in order to survive no matter which side finally won, has been the subject of much legendary discussion. Later, they would come to be called Sanada Jū Yushi, lit. Ten heroes under Sanada, in tales where they used ninja skills to defeat everything but their jealous wives (who were, of course, ninja themselves).
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The Five Rings\nThe Broad Principles of Musashi's Strategy\nExcerpt from "The Ground Book" ... \n\nStategy is the craft of the warrior ... If you practise day and night ... your spirit will naturally broaden. Thus is large scale strategy and the strategy of hand to hand combat propagated in the world. This is recorded for the first time in the five books of Ground, Water, Fire, Tradition (Wind), and Void (Emptiness). This is the Way to learn my strategy:\n\n\nDo not think dishonestly.\n\nThe Way is in training.\n\nBecome aquainted with every art.\n\nKnow the Ways of all professions.\n\nDistinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.\n\nDevelop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.\n\nPerceive those things which cannot be seen.\n\nPay attention even to trifles.\n\nDo nothing which is of no use.\nIt is important to start by setting these broad principles in your heart, and train in the Way of strategy. If you do not look at things on a large scale it will be difficult for you to master strategy. If you learn and attain this strategy you will never lose even to twenty or thirty enemies.\n\nA Book of Five Rings - Author: Miyamoto Musashi, Victor Harris (Translator)\nSince the publication of its first English translation in 1974, The Book of Five Rings has become an underground classic in the American business community. Here are timeless principles of craft, skill, timing, and spirit from a great samurai warrior—plus background on Zen, Bushido, Heiho, and Musashi's life.\n\nMiyamoto Musashi was born in 1584 in Miyamoto village in the Japanese province Mimasaka. In 1632, he began writing "The Book of Five Rings," which seeks to teach the spiritual and technical aspects of the martial arts. The book's five scrolls; Earth, Water, Fire, Wind (tradition) and Void (emptiness), exemplify different aspects of Musashi's beliefs and his art of fighting.\n\nIn his own words...\n\n"When I had passed the age of thirty and reflected on my experiences, I realized that I had not been victorious because I had an inherent skill for the science and had not deviated from natural principles... I subsequently practiced day to night in order to attain an even deeper principle, and spontaneously came upon the science of martial arts...Trusting in the advantage of military science, as I turn it into the science of all arts and skills. I have no teacher in anything."\n             —Miyamoto Musashi
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you...\n\nA.  draw a transmutation circle on the ground and expect something to happen\n\nB.  start calling your friends names of anime characters\n\nC. bite your thumb hard enough to make it bleed and then try to summon an animal\n\nD. drink sake and expect to become a master of the drunken fist like Rock Lee\n\nand lastly...\n\nE. grow your nails so long you call them 'Lust's Nails'\n\n((I've sadly done all five - but I had to use a knife for the third one because I couldn't bite my thumb hard enough!!!!))
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A knife-hand strike is a strong technique in karate. More popularly known as a 'karate chop,' the knife-hand is powerful enough to knock out an attacker.\n \nSteps:\n1.  Open your hand with your fingers extended and touching together.\n \n2.  Arch the hand backward, forcing the palm side of the knuckles forward.\n \n3.  Fold the thumb into the palm, bending the top of the thumb downward.\n \n4.  Curve the tips of your fingers in slightly while keeping the hand arched backward.\n \n5.  Move your striking hand, palm up, near the opposite-side shoulder.\n \n6.  Strike across your body, straightening your elbow as you go.\n \n7.  Twist your wrist immediately before contact, so that the palm faces down. The padded edge below the pinky is the striking surface.\n \n8.  Keep your other hand as a fist at your side. Pull back on this hand in the opposite direction of your strike to gain power.
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Ninja were neither assassins nor rogue samurai.  They were spies.  You've been watching too many bad samurai films.  A samurai was a far superior swordsman and would easily beat a ninja in one-to-one combat.
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This may help - http://www.martialartsresource.com/DA/ma_sites.html\n\nGood luck!
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His most used jutsu is Kage bunshin no jutsu later in the Series Naruto learns Rasengen from Jiriya(one of the legendary Sannin, teacher of the Fourth, student of the Third) Rasengen is used as Naruto's offensive attack
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It would help.. Kendo would teach you the proper stance and how to hold a blade in preperation for an upcoming battle.  But i always had total respect for a katana.  For a Samurai , to expose the blade of a katana meant that you  would use it to kill.  It was not an empty threat.\n\nThe moment you do not respect a katana, the katana will not respect you and you will get hurt. Katanas can be easily broken if mishandled or someting struck it at strong direct angle. Kendo will help in delivering a swing designed for one strike one kill.
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Here's some good info to have.\nThere's a lot more info on the net than just the links I put, all you have to do is just type in Japanese swords or Samurai swords or anything like that in yahoo search or google or whatever search engine you use.
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Its all about tactics. The samurai tended too pair of in battle and fight one on one with strict codes of hounor. Were as knights were brutal killing machines with no codes of conduct. Maybe knight would win because of better overall tactics.