Does anybody know of any real ninja schools?
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Ninja is another form of martial arts, you learn this like any martial arts student, except for a novice person, the instructor usually does not teach all the concealment and secrets, these are taught to those who deserve to be top of the class.\n\nAnyway, for commercialize school, maybe you won't learn that much or learn to be like those in movies.\nhttp://www.neopets.com/island/fight_training.phtml\nhttp://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/waiwai/archive/news/2002/02/20020221p2g00m0dm998000c.html
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The name of the school won't always reveal what martial art a school teaches or the number of styles they offer. Asking what kind of martial art someone teaches is not a stupid question. There is a styles directory on www.martialartssites.com that will describe many different styles of martial arts to you. www. wikipedia.com is also good.\n\nHere's an old answer of mine that might help:\n\nHere's what I would do:\n\n\n1. Get a sheet of paper and write down exactly what kinds of benefits you wish to obtain from studying karate/martial arts. It's a good idea to know exactly what you want to achieve.\n\n2. Go to www.smartpages.com and look up MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION in you city and state. It will tell you what martial arts are taught in your area and where the schools are located.\n\n3. Once you know what martial arts are offered in your area look up their definitions on the net. Note the similarities and differences between each. A good place to do that is www.wikipedia.com.\n\n4. Visit the schools in your area. Ask for a free class. Make sure you find a Master Instructor who is overseen by a larger governing body.For example: Many Tae Kwon Do schools belong to the World Tae Kwon Do Federation. Verify your instructor's credentials.\n\n\nSome Martial Arts:\n\nTae Kwon Do and Karate will provide you with a great cardiovascular workout. They will also tone you. For the best results go to class around 4-5 days per week and at least 20-30 minutes a day at home to practice your moves.\nKoei Kan and Isshin Ryu are two good styles of karate. You can also look up Kenpo.\n\nKrav Maga, an Israeli style of self defense, is a superb physical workout. Around 4-5 days of Krav with transform your body. I've watched it happen. Fair warning! The workouts are intense! Take a look at Jennifer Lopez in the movie Enough. She's doing Karv Maga.
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http://www.egos-school.com/
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If you cannot locate a school near your area, I would begin by seeking out the closest, most reputable instructor that you can find and make a visit to their class/school. Introduce yourself to the instructor and tell them of your situation and the distance issue. With any luck, the instructor will allow you to train and will give you enough information so that you can spend some quality time at home working the material that you learned and then each time you get a chance, pay another visit to this instructor.\n\nThere is no replacement for real teaching: books, videos, online material, these are all very good tools but these alone will never get you to become a formidable exponent of any martial art.
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Check the links in the sources below. Also ask at local universities a lot run beginners classes for students. I've got a lot of friends who study Shotokan Karate and really love it (not in that area mind you). Good luck with it.
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Try http://www.sessions.edu .\n\nThat is the only trusted online school that I'm aware of.\n\nGood Luck!
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http://www.mininova.org/search/?search=naruto
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If you're looking for a self-defense class....these are the things I would look for...and also, warning signs to watch out for.\n\n1- How simplistic are the techniques that are being taught? \n   Rule of thumb: generally when techniques are overly complex, they're overly prone to failure against a non-compliant attacker...heh..{cough} Tae Kwon Do for example...avoid it at all costs.\n\n2- Does the system teach techniques that are universally applicable? i.e. - do they work against strikes, chokes, grabs, weapons and so forth....if they do not, they're too unilaterally minded to be useful.\n\n3- Does the class have a bunch of students wearing white uniforms screaming for no good reason? Do they perform very static, mechanical movements ala 'rock 'em sock 'em robots?'\nIf so....walk away, just walk away.\n\n4- Do they charge outlandish prices for classes, promotions, and 5 million different colored belts?\nIf so....walk away, just walk away.\n\n5- Do they spar w/ big targeted pads on their chest, poofy helmet things, and shin pads?\nIf so....just leave politely.\n\n6- Do they have a few classes you can try out for no cost and/or obligation? \nIf so, use them.\n\n7- Lastly, to they teach evasion and counter/release techniques over standing there and trying to block?\nIf so, that's a good thing...definitely a good thing. Blocking fails more often than not...it's better to just not be there.\n\nArts I would reccomend if you can find them :\n\nJapanese arts : \nBujinkan Budo Taijutsu (under a qualified Hachidan instructor or higher.) \nAlso, certain kinds of Aikido...depends on the mindset of the class, some are great...some do the whole Zen-hippie thing too much.\nKoryu Jujutsu is great as well, Hontai Yoshin Ryu and Yagyu Shinkage Ryu are great schools if the instructor can get past "kata mindset" and work on real combat.\nOut of all of them, I'd reccomend the Bujinkan first.\n\nChinese arts : \nChen Tai Chi - looks slow, but teaches principles of balance rarely seen elsewhere...and it's great for iso-kinetic exercise.\nChoy Li Fut (choy lay fut) - great southern striking art...lots of curriculum, but geared toward street fighting.\nHung Ga - southern art that combines strikes, throws, and locks/joint breaking w/ ease. GREAT workout too.\nXingyi-quan : tedious to study, devestating when mastered.\n\nKorean arts : I reccomend none.\n\nMuay Thai : for scrapping, 'nuff said.\n\nAnd also any kind of basic police training for unarmed or handheld weapons training - they teach great release and counter techniques very similar to Bujinkan material (same kind of mindset.)\n\nAlso, the Israeli art of Krav Maga....brutal and nasty.\n\nYou can always e-mail me directly if you want a more detailed answer.\n\npeace, and happy hunting!
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Depends what part of WI you are from. There is a Kung Fu studio on Hwy 164 and Hwy 59 on the south side of Waukesha. I know some instructors there.
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There really isn't a "best" school.\nEvery area has basically the same content that has to be taught in the class.  Every class is going to focus a bit more on the things you'll see in that area.  Case in point... Indiana school isn't going to teach a GREAT deal on poisonous snake bits because they don't have many poisonous snakes.  Go near the ocean and they will focus strongly on drownings.  The criteria for the classes are set at a national level and therefore, the basics of the classes will all be the same.
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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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Try doing a search on Yahoo Groups for 'martial arts'
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Hmm... I live closer to GB than Flint, but have never heard of an Aikido Club... So I looked it up!
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Any discipline is good to learn, what you have to do is find a school that has a good atmosphere (friendly, everybody gets along well both with the instructors and each other) usually family oriented.\n\nsecond of all you should be comfortable with the instructor's(s) style of teaching. find you a few schools that may have trial classes and see which one interests you the most\n\ncheck your local phone book or searchengine to find any schools or schools websites. for schools that're up to maybe a 15 mile radius of where you live, you may wind up with a bit of a drive, but it could be worth it if you can get most of what you're lookin to get out of it.\n\nmostly the two main types of disciplines that use the throwing aspect is Aikido and Hapkido, Hapkido is the more aggressive of the two but still very similar to Aikido.\n\nIf you can find a school that teaches a type of Kung Fu, then go for it, but usually there's very little throwing aspects that're featured, not to mention sword techniques, but it is possible to find a school that does it, but it's gonna be difficult.\n\nas for learning sword techniques, possibly Ninjitsu ( some of the higher techniques incorporate sword techniques) and it too has excellent hand to hand fighting techniques, or Kendo/Iaido for the sword techniques.\n\ngood luck and good training.
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Yes there is a wrestling school in Toronto, it's called UVW-Ultimate Wrestling Alliance, and there is the Ultimo Dragon Wrestling School in The Toronto area\n\nhttp://www.uwahardcorewrestling.com/Training.aspx\n\nAlso There is Universal Wrestling Alliance in Kars, Ont.  which is about 20 mins from downtown Ottawa, and they hold their matches out of the Sir Robert Guertin Arena in Hull and other venues through out Ottawa and the area.  I actually have a business card from the Trainer Dave Dalton to join the Battleground Academy Located in Ottawa
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yes they were. Ninjas were just like a "myth" of robin hood in england. "robin hood" was just a name taken by any bandit at the time looking to strike fear into his victems. There were actually a number of bandits that took the name.\n\nThe ninja- is much the same, sure japan had spies and assasins and saoteurs but saying "im a ninja" and having peope fall into the whole myth which spies and assasins let grow, created this "myth" that people on such missions could use to strike fear into thier enemies.\n\nIt is, the most likely story that "ninjas" were actually just samurai who specialized in the art of assasinations and spying.
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Hi goto http://www.karateengland.org.uk/ \n\nIt has a list of classes all over england. If you go to the clubs directory then you can search for clubs in an area near where you live.\n\nHope it helps.