Bujinkan Estonia
What is Ninjutsu?
Some refer to Bujinkan as ninjutsu, because 3 out of the 9 schools in Bujinkan were founded by the fighters commonly known as ninjas. As one can understand, this is only part of our teachings and the final 6 schools have roots in samurai training. A lot is written about Buijkan and ninjutsu, which will not be reproduced here.
The words ninja and ninjutsu is saturated with lots of myths and prejudices from tales and action movies. Some of the rumours might originally been encouraged by practitioners of the art to deceive people from believing they were in fact ordinary people.
Though we would not claim to be ninjas, we do practice the skill they were representing: survival. Survival means adaptation and doing what it takes to continue living in contrast to for example sports or sparring activities, which has agreed rules to follow. This is why we often refer to it as a living art – it is evolving to our time and to the people practicing it.
Often people confuse our art as street fighting or believe we claim it to be the ultimate fighting system. Hand to hand combat is one aspect of our training, but a fight you can walk away from is a fight survived. What it takes to survive is not always measured in speed, agility or stamina. Neither is it realistic to expect having a real fight (everything and anything allowed) with no long term or permanent injuries (with following legal complications) – though there are always people who still have to try to test this argument.
It is part of the students training to investigate the background of his training for him-/her-self, and try other martial arts too. But since there is a lot of information of doubtable quality, we will try to guide you to some of the better information on the net.
