Man I am so sad for Greg Park, I would love to meet him one day to thank him for everything. I would love to contact him one day to pay him or hepl him in some way, his videos did alot for me. His skill doesn't lie, his hands are obviously jacked from life, his acrobatics are tuned, everything he says is genuine. His haters really suck and probably couldn't do a push up without damn near dying. I hope he comes back🙏🙏🙏
I was a student of Greg 14 years ago when i was 8. I remember him being a very cool guy. He taught me Hapkido and how to use a sword. Which have actually worked for me in every street fight ive been in. I can say that his hapkido skills and sword skills are real. But..... Theyre was always something off about his class. First timers had harsh training, black belts can be BOUGHT (Yes! He lets you buy a black belt. Very weird), and most of time we just watched him do cool stuff. While i do think he is a legit fighter, I think he failed to create his own martial arts and would teach us some wierd things. He isnt 100% real. He has even been called out by the Japanese community for teaching the wrong stuff in nutrition.
The reality is, people are tired of the drama, negativity and personal attacks in the ninjutsu community. When egos take over it degrades the entire idea of working together.
8 years after this video, Anshu Christa now references your books in her videos. And this year, I've subscribed to both even though I knew of you two for years, and even had your books but haven't read them until now. I've dropped the Hatsumi is the only source bit and come to respect more what others are doing in their own paths.
You know I dedicated 18 years to modern martial arts including bjj, wrestling, shoot fighting, Muay Thai, boxing, kickboxing, and knife fighting. I retired 10 years ago to focus on my family. But one regret is never mastering ninjitsu. I struggle to believe in the hand to hand combat being effective, but the child within desperately wants to be a ninja 🥷 I'd love to put my 18 years of knowledge into a ninja style and bring it into modern time's.
You are essentially right. Emotional control would bring great freedom, sharing and subsequent knowledge. Perhaps some day? Thank you for taking the time to do this. Be well, always, sir.
Ive been following your stuff for 8 years. What you offer is infinitely more interesting and practical than the public image if the ninja. What you have uncovered is a very complex,pragmatic and progressive way of life that few people followed then and very few will follow now. People who intrinsically carry the character that you mention in your books will benefit from your work
I’m very appreciative of your teaching and your show. You are the only one that gave proper credit, proof and a translation of the bansenshukai and shoninki. Sorry about that running on sentence 😂👍.
I have a question. I am new to the ninjutsu community and I truly have little knowledge about it. I have experience with Tae Kwon Do and some Muay Thai. Can someone please tell me where I can find GENUINE ninjutsu. And also, why is there so much drama in the community? I watched a few videos of ChosonNinja, and he seemed fine to me. However, I know nothing about ninjutsu. What did he do wrong?
I love historical ninjutsu. That's why I just pressed the subscribe button! Please keep up the good work! You can keep the shuriken and kunai in the videos as a catchphrase when you make those historical ninjutsu videos. I am a ninja-fan since childhood and also a Bujinkan-practicioner... I own the Shoninki and my friend has your Banshenshukai! Looking forward to buying more of your books when I get rich.
When you confront someone head on or tell them the way it has to be their wall goes up. It's basic psychology and ninjitsu. I own five of your books and respect you greatly and everything you have done for ninjitsu. I think the biggest problem is no one wants to be criticized on something they feel so strongly about. Everyone is following their passion in their own way which I think is great for ninjitsu it expands it in new ways and helps it to flourish. Looking at it from the other side, I am sure they are thinking why bother with you tube and everyone's criticism and opinion. I think the only way you will ever make it work with them or anyone else is to relax your standards about what ninjitsu is and not state your opinion as fact. Once again I respect you greatly and I mean no disrespect.
You can't order people to regain an interest in something they aren't interested in anymore. Human nature to move on, things change. You gotta go with it. The passion isn't always there. Of course that means your book sales will drop. That's the chance you take.
I really enjoy your passion on the subject of ninjutsu, I agree with your view on to many emotions in the arguments on this ninjutsu has taught me to look 👀 outside the box for solutions to life’s little problems
You once uploaded some old books about Kuji and detailed explanations about the meaning of it, mudras and stuff. You had those on your webpage. Is it possible for you to upload them again ?
I would love to have the Ninjutsu community come back and train again to share truth and reject the fantasy of popular “Hollywood” ninja ideas. So far I like the work you have been doing with extracting truth about Shinobi and the role in history they held. In my younger days I trained with Jim Rosenbach and Robert Bussey. At the time when I started my training I was 9 and had no idea of the history of my instructors in Nebraska. I was training to learn self-defense and to build confidence. As time when on I saw photos of Bussey with Hatsumi and Toshiro Nagato along with others in Japan training before it was Bujinkan. Once I learned about Ninjutsu and the impact it had on RBWI/RWTB it’s all I thought about. I wanted to be a ninja! Fast forward to 2011 and after I got out of the Air Force I had the chance to learn Ninjutsu from Rosenbach and we trained in what I assume is the same curriculum as Bussey learned from Nagato and Hatsumi. After all the training I got my Shodan under Rosenbach.....which in the eyes of the Bujinkan it doesn’t hold any weight, I finally reached my life goal. During that time I learned why Bussey essentially broke away from Hatsumi and rejected many of the ideas that were held in such high esteem. Bussey of course gets a lot of flak from many people in the martial art community especially from the Bujinkan. He did it for the same reason I started my martial arts career, for the purpose of applying fighting arts to a modern time. Throwing out out dated tactics and mystical ideas and keeping what works. It didn’t matter if it was Ninjitsu, Hapkido, or Tae Kwon Do. This is was how RBWI was formed....a blend of various arts to accomplish the goal of personal protection that was effective. All in all, I still would love to train in Ninjutsu and leave out the fantasy. I wish Bussey would make a return but he has also taken a step back and lives a quiet life. Perhaps one day we can all come together again.
I guess I'm very late to the conversation since this video is 4 years old. Still, I think the issues discussed in this video deals with validity. Pop culture really created what we think of when someone says the word ninja. Pop culture also created the craze that made these schools who claim to be authentic and historical ninja. I love your work and devotion to show the world what the shinobi, the historical shinobi, truly was. So bringing these historical documents to light for the average person to gain access to has ruined the ninja dojo as most know it today. Rather than running into the shadows, ironically, I think this is an opportunity to rebrand their dojos into modern arts of combat. I think Stephen Hayes was on to this when he branded his school as the quest center and renamed his art, so on the surface, it seems detached from the ninja branding. This is a great opportunity for others like Christa Jacobson to do the same. Disregard lineage and rebrand as something genuinely their own. We can still enjoy the stoic mysticism of the pop culture ninjas while embracing the historical evidence of the shinobi no mono. Martial arts of any kind was never meant to be packaged away as just forms and arguments of linage. It was meant to be a living thing that endured and adapted in our life as time went on. Karate, as I have always known it to be, was designed to adapt to the martial artist; not the other way around. In that way, through training, karate becomes a part of you. All martial arts should incorporate this philosophy for training; whether modern or traditional.
@@AntonyCummins thank you for the work you're doing. I've enjoyed your books. It must be a such an honor to have had access to the manuscripts you've been able to read for the purposes of your research. Furthermore, we are grateful for the historical enlightenment you bring to the public in your books and videos.
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I think too many people judge the bujinkan too quickly. I think it would be a great place to start, and it is accessible to pretty much all people, great place to learn the basics, which are the called that for a reason, and you will literally do them and practice them for the rest of your life, hopefully. I think for the few, true, students will take this or any basic course and turn it into an actual art, lifestyle. It will make them want to train. Like taekwondo and karate are available in pretty much every town. But only a few will take it and make it something. I think if it's the art/course/ passion for you, you will make it what it needs to be for you
I did Bujinkan Ninjitsu for 8 years. I would love to see you go more into detail about them. Very interesting to know real facts about there school, Hatsumi and Takamatsu. Very controversial but needs to be said. I am open to learning about all styles as long as its true. I personally think with cage fighting coming along the last 15 years it has made a lot of fighting styles come out as rubbish (note: that Ninjitsu is not all about fighting)
@@Edward-vy2py All confirmes by Japans' history museum's which worked with Antony. Would love Bujinkan to be real their is no evidence anywhere about it in any history books. All seems to be a con to make money & ride on the 70-80s' ninja faze
Of course there isn't anything in the history books. It was intended to be secretive. Many still don't believe it even existed. I think you should look at the works of Kacem Zoughari for it's history.
Hey Antony so your saying if I read thru the books pick a few things out of it and do some videos about it that will be enough? I'm excited to do that but I'm worried as it's all been done or someone else has done it I'd like to work with you to refresh it all too
The problem comes in with the indirect or direct verbal competitions, due to one party not understanding the true history of NINJUTSU, and another party not understanding where NINJUTSU has led after leaving Japan. One party doesnt accept the other party's reality, and tends to resort to vilifying or judging the other as false.
I personally dont believe anyone should claim the rights of NINJUTSU as their own just because of understanding its history, or perfection in practice. There were too many families with different origins or paths to and through NINJUTSU, and its historical paths to the current era.
@@knight2003w Well, could it be there are several different forms of ninjutsu that have developed from the personal practices and philosophies of their founders? This does seem to be the case, at least to me, anyway.
Has anyone heard from Dean? He doesn't respond to comments on his old channel and I'm not really on Facebook so have no idea if he's still on there. He doesn't even do his videos on soda, books, movies..nothing. I hope is ok
Hey your books and videos provided a base for my own thing so I could modernize some stuff too. Been homeless before and you kinda need to be a ninja to be homeless and make it out. So for example, your fire starter tube video you recently put out. Today, soda cans.
The ninja community is not going to disappear, modern ninjutsu practitioners do not care what the manuals said that ninjutsu is or is not a martial art, that is a problem for traditionalists and fans of the subject, I dont think today's ninjutsu masters care much what a wanna be as AC says about it, if what I practice serves to defend myself and being a better person is what matters.
Wasn't even aware of some kind of "golden age" in 2012/2013. I bought "true path of the ninja" back in 2010. My grandmother was Japanese and lived there until she married my grandfather who was in the air force. I was also born in Japan but that was because my dad was in the navy so I've always looked at life with a bias towards the Japanese way. I only lived there until I was 3 though. I kind of use historical ninja works like you do as a boy scouts manual with the benefit of also giving philosophical lessons. I use what I learn from your translated manuals and integrate them where ever possible into self defense lessons. I refer to learning how to fight with a gun, knives and all those things as "modern martial arts". In all honesty if you want to learn "modern ninjutsu" there are resources out there. Usually having to do with techniques to help avoid being kidnapped in a foreign country......
Antony Cummins but since their popularity is derived from portraying and promoting ninjitsu as the "esoteric mystical assassin martial art" angle that you battle so much... I don't believe they would be willing to (but I agree, they *should* ) come clean and embrace historical texts. I feel this is the same problem you face with the watchmojo ordeal: they do it for the views and / or to get more people to follow them, and don't care a bit for accuracy.
+Antony Cummins Cumminsさん I have watched your videos off and on for sometime now. I do not train in 忍法(にんぽう)NINPO or 忍術(にんじゅじゅつ)NINJUTSU but I do 沖縄の武道(おきなわのぶどう)Okinawa no Budo. I also talk about the language and culture of Okinawa and Japan in our videos. In some of our videos we go to Martial Arts schools around Japan. I read and write Japanese (3rd grade level) and try to show how the culture is a unique part of 武道(ぶどう)Budo or the Martial Arts. I feel that people today just want to punch and kick. Thank you for your work on Martial Arts beyond just the physical. Osu
Here is another thing that I am wondering about. Ninjutsu does contain mysticism,basic folk magic and the kuji which is derived from Buddhist mudras,then there are the shugendo practices. So that part is true. They also did,but not often....perform assassinations. The part that seems to be mostly made up is their h2h ability. So what would seem more like fantasy "magic" is more historically accurate than what people felt was real "ninja h2h skills" how ironic
@@flintrocks he had some legit skill, but a lot of what he said was false..made up teachers that didn't exist, lied about being able to read and write japanese, teaching his students moves and lessons that weren't from what he said they were and teaching things that could've ended up getting students hurt or worse. He essentially made up a lot of things and made money off of these lies. He truly wanted to teach what he knew, he should've stuck to plain tai Kwon do..that was his true background, not anything in japanese or Ninjitsu.
Greg had started up again with the videos but some viewers were questioning why he censored stuff out and and he got insulted and stopped again. just like he did a while ago. he usually doesn't keep showing stuff for more than like 2 months at a time
i myself have read a couple of your books and the Shoninki,I have also read a lot of the Hatsumi/steven k Hayes books also,I have trained in both karate and kendo and enjoy your videos,i think your right people within the Ninjutsu community need to come out of the shadows as it were,and enjoy training in historical Ninjutsu,maybe do a seminar with all these sensei"s teaching their own style of the arts...
Society is not good . Immigration is bad. Japan takes 11 refuges a year. That is wise. I belive in Stephen K Hayes and Hatsumi. All the spiritual stuff. Should swindlers invent that. It is too complicated for swindlers to invent.That is spiritual stuff like in the Stephen K hayes books.
What Anthony Cummins can´t tie a bowtie? Has he neglected hojo/shibarijutsu? Then let me recommend a video on CZcams by Sherod Brown a man who is quite capable of that.
To be honest, ever since I was a young kid, I had an interest in the samurai, but a bit in the "shinobi" as well. Though as I got older, I started to look at it in the same way that... you ever notice that the Navy usually shows commercials of the SEALS to advertise? Yea, it was kind of like that for me. However, as I got older still, oddly enough, I began migrating back to the samurai themselves. Namely as per my own ignorance, there's a LOT of information and tradition to be found there. Especially like you said, the strategy. As well as the history found in books that weren't around as I was growing up. So it's kind of like going from the SEALs to the officers and shoot me if one will, but now that I'm older, that just kind of seems a little more interesting. Not to say that I'm anti shinobi... I'll definitely take information and lessons from that side of things as well, but the samurai themselves just have a hold on my heart, so to speak.
If Anthony Cummins succeeds in making ninjas more respected and popular among other martial arts he should be celebrated and honoured as a modern pioneer of Budo, Bujutsu or whatever the correct term may be. There should be more unity in the martial arts society in general. Rivalry, competition and mockery is regrettably more the rule than the exception. Is for example not OK to call oneself a Christian and then love cagefighting because it´s animalistic, dirty, rotten and totally out of control. That´s hypocrisy. Greg Park despite of all what people say about him refused to have anything to do with Kujikiri because of his Christian belief. That´s being truthful and honest. I hope people will cultivate more of this instead of cultivating a dirty and nasty attitude towards martial arts. Sometimes it´s like the martial artists have become worse than the bullies they feared before they started practising martial arts.
I find it all fascinating from the historical to the fiction (80's Ninja's and Cyberpunk settings even). Then again, I love the straight sword that is synonymous now with the Ninja just as much as the curved sword... The whole straight vs curved thing is utter crap. It's all like a bit of a legend. We are introduced to the Ninja through the black outfit and Ninja-to and then digging deeper, you find where the reality was and how the "somewhat" heroic fantasy version came to be. There is no wrong or right in it... it's all good!!! I can be reading Antony's book and enjoying it and then throw on a Sho Kosugi movie and keep enjoying it. I think the people that lose the enjoyment of it are the ones that are constantly pushing for only one side of the history to ever be highlighted, whether that is the historical or the fantasy. I'm all for bringing Ninjas back to the forefront and using fantasy to highlight historical. Let's just enjoy everything about it!!! www.jasonfalter.ninja/ plus.google.com/collection/okfhb
Antony - Greg Park was a target for more than his share of haters and trolls, but regardless of the name of his art or his lineage, he demonstrated some legitimate skills that were clearly acquired through time and effort. There are rumors that he passed away, possibly a few years ago, but I cannot find anything to confirm it. Given your long history with Greg, I am hoping that you may be able to shed some light on this. Thank you for any information that you can provide.
Was just looking back some nostalgic youtube stuff and wondering how this guy was going found out he is dead but no confirmation either. If you find anything, please share. His videos encouraged me and sparked my interest to learn a few new weapons and ended up taking up martial arts ever since.
that is random internet rumor that he is dead. if someone stops making videos they are dead? i think we need solid proof like announcment from one of his students. on youtube there is just random guy talking about it and ASSUMING and next video he makes another saying he don't even know. that don't prove yet anything.
i can tell you this when i was a kid in the 80s i loved ninja s ,sho kosugi movies were my fav but i would watch anything with a ninja in it,then i kinda lost interest a little because the movies got real bad and went away and the ninja craze was over,i still liked ninjas but i was no longer obsessed with them. then cut to a few years ago i saw choson on youtube and at first i thought he was pretty cool and seemed to know his stuff but i found the more i watched him the more crazy he seemed so i started looking up some of the things he was saying and found a lot of things wrong and i also started to watch his haters vids because he kept talking about haters al the time so i figured i would get both sides of the story thats when i found dean and juzo and then later antony and for awhile i couldn't get enough of the ninja drama ,it was fun to watch but i also wanted som more ninja info so i bought 3 of antony's books (i love them btw) and i learned a lot about ninjas but at the same time i found the more i learned the less interest i had in them because a lot of the cool myths were shattered when the truth came out and it kinds ruined ninjas for me a little when the ninja drama died down and my interest dried up a bit i moved on to other interests and only looked at ninja stuff once in a while,i think a lot of people just lost interest in ninjas and now everyones watching the big youtube drama going on lately with all the big youtube channels superheros have got more popular as well and ninjas are fading away again but i think ninjas will be back again in the future cause they never stay gone forever and we will see another ninja boom
I bet you thought no one would read your entire long comment. Well guess what? I did. I do believe that we will get another ninja boom perhaps in 40 years maybe. When a new Tenchu game comes out or when Ubisoft finally makes an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan (yes, that franchise will never die). I used to watch Chosun ninja, too. Years ago. I remember him mentioning things about his haters many times but I always assumed they were trolls in the comment section. Back then I didn't know about all the ninja drama going on. Years later I learned about Antony Cummins.
Here is the problem that Antony followers fail to realize that is that Antony research while impressive is only half the truth. He is looking at everything through those documents he can get his hands on. What is contained in documents that were destroyed or that are in private collections may provide validity to the things Antony disputes. Much of the martial arts can be applied to the samurai and therefore the ninja. one example is the straight sword. There is numerous documentaries on the fact that the Samurai took the straight sword, which they found difficult to draw while and horseback, and curved it to make it easier to wield. Breathing techniques found in many martials arts have been traced way back to feudal times. Now please don't get me wrong...But just as Antony tells martial artist to let go of the word Ninja, he needs to let go of the word Truth. Regardless of which path you take, both sides have a bit of truth to them and a bit of assumptions.
Hello Chris talk to me. Tell me whats going on. I read a comment of yours awhile back discussing authentic training. If you have time can you break down what is going on between you and Antony? Have you shelfed the idea of working with Antony? Have you tried sending him emails already? I would like to understand when you have the time. Take your time ofcourse. Handle your priorities. Get back to me when you get a chance! I thought it was interesting what you were proposing. I'm curious to know why you haven't been able to establish a dialogue with Antony. Can you update me on your goals regarding training?
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Distance yourself from those very people. There is no community. The time and energy spent networking with frauds and critics would be better spent on your own channel. You are the tip of the spear. Christa, Greg and Dean have only detracted from what you are doing.
Osu is said all the time in Karate and Judo dojo, but not in everyday public. Like people in western culture do. OSUUUSUUSUSUU!!!!!!!!!!! after everything they say.
Who is dean? what is his channel? is it the latescottbaio? He is very sarcastic and has gotten more muscular lately. Update: Okay dean is scottbaioisdead latescottbair bullshit martial arts etc..
By the way I think people is too hard on Chosun/Greg Park. Maybe I don´t know him well enough, but despite all this hate and trash people throw at him, I think his reaction is quite admirable. He doesn´t react hatefully himself but let people know that he can also be a bit sarcastic if he wants too. Instead he reacts with intelligence, humour and love. Much more balanced than all that hatefull emotion-stuff seen by his opponents. That is something we can all learn from I think.
Michael MacConn>>> You got a point there. People are tired of all the antfuckery over small and logical things that shouldn´t cause endless and exhausting debates that one looses interest in because they´re silly and doesn´t bring us any new perspective or wisdom at all. They don´t even bring us closer as a brotherhood or society, which I´ve had a secret dream about for long. The most worrying thing is that one should expect practitioners to develop, grow and mature together. Instead a lot of childish and egoistical crusades over irrelevant things arises. One get to think that it´s like Kindergarten again where everyone propagates for their own sake and things all the time. It´s like shouting and yelling about their own amazingness and degrading others all the time has become the order of the day. People should find together and build strong bands and friendships which is a much more beautiful thing than all the trashtalking and warmongering.
have you look at black dragon ninjitsu by ron collins. it has some historical part but for what i'm into i like it. i've had some great conversations with ron.
I'm quite glad I was around in the peak period 2 or 3 years ago, even though i'd just watch and never comment. I'd just got into the youtube ninja scene, when Greg was uploading most days, and that would ignite several response videos, then the comments section would be ablaze with arguments from various sides. Better entertainment than a TV show!
Maybe it's not that people aren't interested, maybe it's that in part, you're the uninvited guest at the party. You pissed in the cheerios. The parent that jumps out from behind the door to shake your finger at them, when they were already doing what makes them happy. Who invited the cops to show up and bust all the Players? Eh, who knows....
I always watched your videos but for some reason I just stopped getting the notifications! Not sure why but I just let it slide- Found your historical ninjitsu vids and I LOVE them - please do not make them shorter!
The problem is Ant. Not everyone agrees with you. There's too many people that want Ninjustu to be martial arts. And your historical Ninjustu as killed their dreams. Not everyone wants the truth. It's like telling a Christians the truth about their religion. They don't want to hear the truth. It's the same here. You're a threat. All the people you name want Ninjustu to be a martial art. Which why I don't bother with those people.
+432fuuzz A lot of Christians do not know the history of Christianity. Real Christianity is really no different from Judaism. It took 1,000 years for Christianity to establish itself as a religion. The religion has been hijacked by foreigners like the Romans, Greeks, taken out it's original culture content and place in another, has been rewitten numerous times. The King James Bible, is not the real Bible. The real Christian Bible is one written in Aramaic. Christianity and Islam are really different secs of Judaism.
+LittleImpaler There are also a lot of Christians that love learning Christian history and know it well. Early Christian history doesn't in any way invalidate the faith. Not sure if that's what you're implying, but it sort of seemed like it. Of course Christianity grew out of Judaism, but Jews today do not, and never have, believed Jesus of Nazareth is the messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. I completely agree about the KJV Bible being frankly a sloppy translation - I wish people would learn Aramaic and Greek, study the earliest documents, and then talk about what the best translation is.
Darker Instincts Even the early Greek translations are messed up. Because they took a cult that started in the Middle East, that was written with an anicent Middle Eastern mindset, and changed the manuscripts to fit their culture and mindset. A lot Christians don't really follow Christianity. Christians take the word messiah to mean something special. When in reality there were many messiahs, Messiah is just a person in Abrahamic religions. Jesus is just a person. Jews keep telling Christians that, but a lot Christians don't understand that, or don't want to hear it. In real bible there's no heaven or hell in real Christianity. That heaven in real Christianity is no different from the Jews view of heaven. That heaven is what you make of your life on Earth. Christians aren't supposed to eat pork. Christians men aren't suppose to cut their hair. And Christian women are supposed to cover their hair like the Muslims. This list could go on and on. The only people that really understand Christianity are the Jews. Jeues knew he was the lamb of God. You tell Christians that, they get mad. Christianity in the West isn't really Christianity.
+432fuuzz I am going to correct you. First off there is no evidence that Vlad Tepse was religious or not. The new Testament has NOTHING to do with Christianity in the first place. The Testament is a creation of foreigners taking over the religion and turning it into something it was not. Christianity it's is purest form is no different from Islam and Judaism. Real Christianity has the same laws as Judaism and Islam. Even Jeues said " Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them." But far too many Christians skip that part and go off and do their own thing. If the real Bible ever replace the King James Version. A lot Christians would be very upset that they have be a Jew. Christians don't follow real Christianity. There was a reason why in the medieval times the priest called the Jews the Old Christians. Because they knew even back then a Christian was really a Jew. Christianity today, really has nothing to do with Jeues, because many Christians don't even follow what Jeues said or did. For someone who doesn't really follow Christianity. You sure are really upset about what I have to say about it. Which you have just proven my point why some people get upset at Ant, and don't want to work with him, because they get their emotions tied into it just like you did.
May I ask you where you get your sources/knowledge from? Name some scholars whose material you studied to come to your conclusions. Do you have a college degree in religious studies, new testament scholarship, etc? You bring up so many points it would take more time than I currently have to deal with each individually, so I'd like to know where you've gotten this information from. Of course if you say you have a masters in religious studies I'll just have to take your word from it, but it's a start.
Look historical or not, what studying any modern re-invention of ninjutsu allows a student to study a wide range of skills in a single system,. Its too bad the community got into so much reputation tarnishing. It has splintered everyone and injected a lot of mistrust. Im familiar with bujunkan like Akban from Israel, Christa and Greg Park. I actually like what they teach. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself, are you better for doing the training or not.
I think it was really "sexy" or the "cool" thing to watch when you were literally calling out people for lying and/or unknowingly teaching false information. To tell you the truth, I heard that ninja wasn't a martial art a long time ago as a kid BUT the idea that Ninjutsu was a hand to hand martial art, like I've seen in the movies (which was really Gung Fu or TKD/Karate, with sword fencing), was much more enticing to believe. that being said I REALLY appreciate you setting out to find the TRUTH Antony! It could also be because like you've said before people could be SO set in their ways they are somehow shamed, and prefer to be in an area where they aren't criticized for teaching what they believe, even though it's not correct. I'm really interested in your teachings and discoveries in Ninjutsu. I however have my own Martial arts journey I'm working on. I spend a lot of time into practice (blk TKD while working on my BJJ BLK belt, while getting familiar with Muay thai and MMA) so I only have time to read some of your books or watch your videos and try to learn that way. I wouldn't know how to give back to the Ninjutsu community. The Ninja however is my BIG reason for getting into martial arts! I'm interested in learning! CZcamsrs recently have been doing their own movie like videos...you could gain new followers doing a documentary you've done yourself. ( that way the info is correct) I'm enjoying the Ninja Training series you're doing and the videos of Japan you do! I don't think you should change anything but if you want to get more fictional Ninja enthusiasts to become interested about the true history of the Ninja. You could hook up with some other youtube channels that like making movie like quality programs. I hope you don't give up Antony and keep on teaching!
I don't think popular culture will serve ourselves well... Budo Ryu is new and still developing... Bottom line Ninjutsu isn't a big secret... Ninpo Judo Jutsu... more than just combat... I suggest constant practice meditation and Our place in the world... From foundation to goals
I gotta say I love your channel and all your info, thanks. I think the problem with ninjutsu in a modern pop cultural sense is that its passe to hipsters and so goes mass interest. also some internet formats wear you down. trolls and all
Upload & pour your heart out on the videos you want to produce, which is all the Ninja history youve learned. If you have 1 view in each Ninja history video, guess what?,... You have one student. 100 - 200 students is outstanding!! I get happy when I get 1 view in my videos on youtube. If youre are trying to get more interest & changing your videos, Maybe do 1 or 2 Ninja history videos & 1 or 2 new type videos to bring in more interest (just an example). Pour out all the Ninja knowledge you have to fulfill your number 1 goal . 70% Ninja history 30% what the audience wants (example). You must fill your channel & finish your Ninja history goal.
HOnestly I'm not sure NInjutsu needs more CZcamsrs, we all could start making videos but what's the point, if all we would do is just repeat yourself or someone else who is doing it for a long time, that won't spread the word, it will just make more under hundred views videos, only hope is that some historical document that could interest general martial arts based community shows up to make historical ninjutsu brake trough.
Instead of this fantasy world ninja history why dont you dive and research the historical semi independent iga republic wich nobunaga destroyed but that is the world were your idols operated
Well, my tip is to abandon the foolish idea of working with the pathological liars, disturbed and mentally ill senseis and anshus. What do you expect from then - other than chasing their own tail.
Jesus Christus>>>>> Correct, and yet there are some people who thinks Hatsumi is both ridiculous and a fraud allthough his skill is obvious, when he demonstrates it...
Man I am so sad for Greg Park, I would love to meet him one day to thank him for everything. I would love to contact him one day to pay him or hepl him in some way, his videos did alot for me. His skill doesn't lie, his hands are obviously jacked from life, his acrobatics are tuned, everything he says is genuine. His haters really suck and probably couldn't do a push up without damn near dying. I hope he comes back🙏🙏🙏
I heard he died from cancer years ago but I hope he's still here.
I was a student of Greg 14 years ago when i was 8. I remember him being a very cool guy. He taught me Hapkido and how to use a sword. Which have actually worked for me in every street fight ive been in. I can say that his hapkido skills and sword skills are real.
But.....
Theyre was always something off about his class. First timers had harsh training, black belts can be BOUGHT (Yes! He lets you buy a black belt. Very weird), and most of time we just watched him do cool stuff. While i do think he is a legit fighter, I think he failed to create his own martial arts and would teach us some wierd things. He isnt 100% real. He has even been called out by the Japanese community for teaching the wrong stuff in nutrition.
@Cameron Matlock
Someday you will fight in _The Kumite_ and make your -Shidoshi- Greg Park proud...
He's still alive guy's...he just post on FB nowadays
alright
Whats his FB?
The reality is, people are tired of the drama, negativity and personal attacks in the ninjutsu community. When egos take over it degrades the entire idea of working together.
Michael MacConn I totally agree with you I wish I would of seen your comment years ago my respects.
That’s why all scholars are denigrated and pissed off . Thanks 🙏
8 years after this video, Anshu Christa now references your books in her videos. And this year, I've subscribed to both even though I knew of you two for years, and even had your books but haven't read them until now. I've dropped the Hatsumi is the only source bit and come to respect more what others are doing in their own paths.
You know I dedicated 18 years to modern martial arts including bjj, wrestling, shoot fighting, Muay Thai, boxing, kickboxing, and knife fighting. I retired 10 years ago to focus on my family. But one regret is never mastering ninjitsu. I struggle to believe in the hand to hand combat being effective, but the child within desperately wants to be a ninja 🥷
I'd love to put my 18 years of knowledge into a ninja style and bring it into modern time's.
I love your books and videos. As a genuine spycraft enthusiast I love your work. Keep it up!!
You are essentially right. Emotional control would bring great freedom, sharing and subsequent knowledge. Perhaps some day? Thank you for taking the time to do this. Be well, always, sir.
Ive been following your stuff for 8 years. What you offer is infinitely more interesting and practical than the public image if the ninja. What you have uncovered is a very complex,pragmatic and progressive way of life that few people followed then and very few will follow now. People who intrinsically carry the character that you mention in your books will benefit from your work
The entire ninja community disappeared?!!! Ironic.🤣🤣🤣
I think your ignorance due to your lack of knowledge on ninjutsu is rather more ironic than your sarcastic comment. 😂
lol
I agree with him people need to get rid of the ego to help build the community. We need more unity instead of all the division.
Thank you Antony. for all the work you have done! !! And thank you for the inspiration.
I’m very appreciative of your teaching and your show. You are the only one that gave proper credit, proof and a translation of the bansenshukai and shoninki. Sorry about that running on sentence 😂👍.
I have a question. I am new to the ninjutsu community and I truly have little knowledge about it. I have experience with Tae Kwon Do and some Muay Thai. Can someone please tell me where I can find GENUINE ninjutsu.
And also, why is there so much drama in the community? I watched a few videos of ChosonNinja, and he seemed fine to me. However, I know nothing about ninjutsu. What did he do wrong?
If you want historical ninjutsu you're gonna find it here and in the books Antony translated.
Do you get the answer
I wished I found this video before I emailed you my questions.
I love historical ninjutsu. That's why I just pressed the subscribe button! Please keep up the good work! You can keep the shuriken and kunai in the videos as a catchphrase when you make those historical ninjutsu videos. I am a ninja-fan since childhood and also a Bujinkan-practicioner... I own the Shoninki and my friend has your Banshenshukai! Looking forward to buying more of your books when I get rich.
When you confront someone head on or tell them the way it has to be their wall goes up. It's basic psychology and ninjitsu. I own five of your books and respect you greatly and everything you have done for ninjitsu. I think the biggest problem is no one wants to be criticized on something they feel so strongly about. Everyone is following their passion in their own way which I think is great for ninjitsu it expands it in new ways and helps it to flourish. Looking at it from the other side, I am sure they are thinking why bother with you tube and everyone's criticism and opinion. I think the only way you will ever make it work with them or anyone else is to relax your standards about what ninjitsu is and not state your opinion as fact. Once again I respect you greatly and I mean no disrespect.
You can't order people to regain an interest in something they aren't interested in anymore. Human nature to move on, things change. You gotta go with it. The passion isn't always there. Of course that means your book sales will drop. That's the chance you take.
I really enjoy your passion on the subject of ninjutsu, I agree with your view on to many emotions in the arguments on this ninjutsu has taught me to look 👀 outside the box for solutions to life’s little problems
You once uploaded some old books about Kuji and detailed explanations about the meaning of it, mudras and stuff. You had those on your webpage. Is it possible for you to upload them again ?
Cummins is the Jamie Oliver of ninjas.
Yes I liked those days of Dean, Greg and Janet. It was great watching all of the commotion.
I did not Greg was cancer
I would love to have the Ninjutsu community come back and train again to share truth and reject the fantasy of popular “Hollywood” ninja ideas. So far I like the work you have been doing with extracting truth about Shinobi and the role in history they held. In my younger days I trained with Jim Rosenbach and Robert Bussey. At the time when I started my training I was 9 and had no idea of the history of my instructors in Nebraska. I was training to learn self-defense and to build confidence. As time when on I saw photos of Bussey with Hatsumi and Toshiro Nagato along with others in Japan training before it was Bujinkan. Once I learned about Ninjutsu and the impact it had on RBWI/RWTB it’s all I thought about. I wanted to be a ninja! Fast forward to 2011 and after I got out of the Air Force I had the chance to learn Ninjutsu from Rosenbach and we trained in what I assume is the same curriculum as Bussey learned from Nagato and Hatsumi. After all the training I got my Shodan under Rosenbach.....which in the eyes of the Bujinkan it doesn’t hold any weight, I finally reached my life goal.
During that time I learned why Bussey essentially broke away from Hatsumi and rejected many of the ideas that were held in such high esteem. Bussey of course gets a lot of flak from many people in the martial art community especially from the Bujinkan. He did it for the same reason I started my martial arts career, for the purpose of applying fighting arts to a modern time. Throwing out out dated tactics and mystical ideas and keeping what works. It didn’t matter if it was Ninjitsu, Hapkido, or Tae Kwon Do. This is was how RBWI was formed....a blend of various arts to accomplish the goal of personal protection that was effective.
All in all, I still would love to train in Ninjutsu and leave out the fantasy. I wish Bussey would make a return but he has also taken a step back and lives a quiet life. Perhaps one day we can all come together again.
What happened in the video can someone please tell me
A MOST EXCELLENT VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
I guess I'm very late to the conversation since this video is 4 years old. Still, I think the issues discussed in this video deals with validity. Pop culture really created what we think of when someone says the word ninja. Pop culture also created the craze that made these schools who claim to be authentic and historical ninja. I love your work and devotion to show the world what the shinobi, the historical shinobi, truly was. So bringing these historical documents to light for the average person to gain access to has ruined the ninja dojo as most know it today. Rather than running into the shadows, ironically, I think this is an opportunity to rebrand their dojos into modern arts of combat. I think Stephen Hayes was on to this when he branded his school as the quest center and renamed his art, so on the surface, it seems detached from the ninja branding. This is a great opportunity for others like Christa Jacobson to do the same. Disregard lineage and rebrand as something genuinely their own. We can still enjoy the stoic mysticism of the pop culture ninjas while embracing the historical evidence of the shinobi no mono. Martial arts of any kind was never meant to be packaged away as just forms and arguments of linage. It was meant to be a living thing that endured and adapted in our life as time went on. Karate, as I have always known it to be, was designed to adapt to the martial artist; not the other way around. In that way, through training, karate becomes a part of you. All martial arts should incorporate this philosophy for training; whether modern or traditional.
Good comment. Thank you
@@AntonyCummins thank you for the work you're doing. I've enjoyed your books. It must be a such an honor to have had access to the manuscripts you've been able to read for the purposes of your research. Furthermore, we are grateful for the historical enlightenment you bring to the public in your books and videos.
@@BosunM8James Hello! Just want to let you know that Antony doesn't get notifications for replies to his replies so he didn't see your follow up thank you comment. Just for future reference! Have a great day thank you for your post!
Is it still possible to study historical ninjutsu still? Is there a manual I can purchase or obtain for study?
Go on to Facebook and search Natori Ryu hub ask for Andrew thoburn
@@AntonyCummins Thank you!
@@flintrocks Hello! Just want to let you know that Antony doesn't receive notifications for replies to his replies so he didn't receive your follow up thank you comment. Best of luck in your studies on the path of the shinobi.
Most honest video yet mate
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I trained tonight.
I think too many people judge the bujinkan too quickly. I think it would be a great place to start, and it is accessible to pretty much all people, great place to learn the basics, which are the called that for a reason, and you will literally do them and practice them for the rest of your life, hopefully. I think for the few, true, students will take this or any basic course and turn it into an actual art, lifestyle. It will make them want to train. Like taekwondo and karate are available in pretty much every town. But only a few will take it and make it something. I think if it's the art/course/ passion for you, you will make it what it needs to be for you
I'm studying your books and I love them!!!!
hi Anthony how would it be possible to contact you. in on with a book myself and and would like your opinions on what I'm doing best wishes Leigh
details on website
I did Bujinkan Ninjitsu for 8 years. I would love to see you go more into detail about them. Very interesting to know real facts about there school, Hatsumi and Takamatsu. Very controversial but needs to be said. I am open to learning about all styles as long as its true. I personally think with cage fighting coming along the last 15 years it has made a lot of fighting styles come out as rubbish (note: that Ninjitsu is not all about fighting)
Hmm
Are they real facts or just Antony's facts?
@@Edward-vy2py All confirmes by Japans' history museum's which worked with Antony. Would love Bujinkan to be real their is no evidence anywhere about it in any history books. All seems to be a con to make money & ride on the 70-80s' ninja faze
Of course there isn't anything in the history books. It was intended to be secretive. Many still don't believe it even existed. I think you should look at the works of Kacem Zoughari for it's history.
he became the Dean of Mean. I miss his old vids as well.
Cool vid.
Your passion for your work is inspirational Antman. I enjoy learning from you, including the historical stuff. Thanks for the uploads.
Hey Antony so your saying if I read thru the books pick a few things out of it and do some videos about it that will be enough? I'm excited to do that but I'm worried as it's all been done or someone else has done it I'd like to work with you to refresh it all too
You should make a different Documentary on the whole drama when you first came out using your old youtube videos.
Thank you for your research on the subject
The problem comes in with the indirect or direct verbal competitions, due to one party not understanding the true history of NINJUTSU, and another party not understanding where NINJUTSU has led after leaving Japan. One party doesnt accept the other party's reality, and tends to resort to vilifying or judging the other as false.
I personally dont believe anyone should claim the rights of NINJUTSU as their own just because of understanding its history, or perfection in practice. There were too many families with different origins or paths to and through NINJUTSU, and its historical paths to the current era.
@@knight2003w Well, could it be there are several different forms of ninjutsu that have developed from the personal practices and philosophies of their founders? This does seem to be the case, at least to me, anyway.
Has anyone heard from Dean? He doesn't respond to comments on his old channel and I'm not really on Facebook so have no idea if he's still on there. He doesn't even do his videos on soda, books, movies..nothing. I hope is ok
I think he is worried about losing his job. He is national coast guard and maybe has to be careful
Hey your books and videos provided a base for my own thing so I could modernize some stuff too. Been homeless before and you kinda need to be a ninja to be homeless and make it out. So for example, your fire starter tube video you recently put out. Today, soda cans.
The ninja community is not going to disappear, modern ninjutsu practitioners do not care what the manuals said that ninjutsu is or is not a martial art, that is a problem for traditionalists and fans of the subject, I dont think today's ninjutsu masters care much what a wanna be as AC says about it, if what I practice serves to defend myself and being a better person is what matters.
You ever thought about doing a book read like really going through old books pictures and All
Wasn't even aware of some kind of "golden age" in 2012/2013. I bought "true path of the ninja" back in 2010. My grandmother was Japanese and lived there until she married my grandfather who was in the air force. I was also born in Japan but that was because my dad was in the navy so I've always looked at life with a bias towards the Japanese way. I only lived there until I was 3 though. I kind of use historical ninja works like you do as a boy scouts manual with the benefit of also giving philosophical lessons. I use what I learn from your translated manuals and integrate them where ever possible into self defense lessons. I refer to learning how to fight with a gun, knives and all those things as "modern martial arts". In all honesty if you want to learn "modern ninjutsu" there are resources out there. Usually having to do with techniques to help avoid being kidnapped in a foreign country......
whoa Antony... seriously, Greg Park? I thought his stuff was just 80's mall ninja, and not serious from an historical ninjitsu standpoint
+René Jiménez The point is to get these people working from historical texts :)
Antony Cummins but since their popularity is derived from portraying and promoting ninjitsu as the "esoteric mystical assassin martial art" angle that you battle so much... I don't believe they would be willing to (but I agree, they *should* ) come clean and embrace historical texts. I feel this is the same problem you face with the watchmojo ordeal: they do it for the views and / or to get more people to follow them, and don't care a bit for accuracy.
You are just totally correct. The problem is too big.
+Antony Cummins Cumminsさん
I have watched your videos off and on for sometime now. I do not train in 忍法(にんぽう)NINPO or 忍術(にんじゅじゅつ)NINJUTSU but I do 沖縄の武道(おきなわのぶどう)Okinawa no Budo. I also talk about the language and culture of Okinawa and Japan in our videos. In some of our videos we go to Martial Arts schools around Japan. I read and write Japanese (3rd grade level) and try to show how the culture is a unique part of 武道(ぶどう)Budo or the Martial Arts. I feel that people today just want to punch and kick. Thank you for your work on Martial Arts beyond just the physical. Osu
Here is another thing that I am wondering about. Ninjutsu does contain mysticism,basic folk magic and the kuji which is derived from Buddhist mudras,then there are the shugendo practices. So that part is true. They also did,but not often....perform assassinations. The part that seems to be mostly made up is their h2h ability. So what would seem more like fantasy "magic" is more historically accurate than what people felt was real "ninja h2h skills" how ironic
Greg Park stopped making videos because he was exposed as a fraud and man of ill character. Hope he stops lying one day and just come clean.
What ever happened to dean eichler ?
ThisSentenceIsFalse Christa is a fake as well
How was he exposed?? He seemed pretty legit to me, highly skilled man
@@flintrocks he had some legit skill, but a lot of what he said was false..made up teachers that didn't exist, lied about being able to read and write japanese, teaching his students moves and lessons that weren't from what he said they were and teaching things that could've ended up getting students hurt or worse. He essentially made up a lot of things and made money off of these lies. He truly wanted to teach what he knew, he should've stuck to plain tai Kwon do..that was his true background, not anything in japanese or Ninjitsu.
I believe Europeans added a Vanity Fair in Ninjutsu Its Not a luxury...
Greg had started up again with the videos but some viewers were questioning why he censored stuff out and and he got insulted and stopped again. just like he did a while ago. he usually doesn't keep showing stuff for more than like 2 months at a time
I am really interested in historical ninjutsu! Loved "The book of the Ninja". Great work!
i myself have read a couple of your books and the Shoninki,I have also read a lot of the Hatsumi/steven k Hayes books also,I have trained in both karate and kendo and enjoy your videos,i think your right people within the Ninjutsu community need to come out of the shadows as it were,and enjoy training in historical Ninjutsu,maybe do a seminar with all these sensei"s teaching their own style of the arts...
Society is not good . Immigration is bad. Japan takes 11 refuges a year. That is wise. I belive in Stephen K Hayes and Hatsumi. All the spiritual stuff. Should swindlers invent that. It is too complicated for swindlers to invent.That is spiritual stuff like in the Stephen K hayes books.
hi! Anthony what do you know about ashida kim?
Hmm well are they leaving ninjutsu or focusing on themselves as Ninja are also supposed to have a dedicated heart
Maybe Ashida Kim will write a new book soon.
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What Anthony Cummins can´t tie a bowtie? Has he neglected hojo/shibarijutsu? Then let me recommend a video on CZcams by Sherod Brown a man who is quite capable of that.
To be honest, ever since I was a young kid, I had an interest in the samurai, but a bit in the "shinobi" as well. Though as I got older, I started to look at it in the same way that... you ever notice that the Navy usually shows commercials of the SEALS to advertise? Yea, it was kind of like that for me. However, as I got older still, oddly enough, I began migrating back to the samurai themselves. Namely as per my own ignorance, there's a LOT of information and tradition to be found there. Especially like you said, the strategy. As well as the history found in books that weren't around as I was growing up. So it's kind of like going from the SEALs to the officers and shoot me if one will, but now that I'm older, that just kind of seems a little more interesting. Not to say that I'm anti shinobi... I'll definitely take information and lessons from that side of things as well, but the samurai themselves just have a hold on my heart, so to speak.
What happen to Greg Park?
No one knows
If Anthony Cummins succeeds in making ninjas more respected and popular among other martial arts he should be celebrated and honoured as a modern pioneer of Budo, Bujutsu or whatever the correct term may be. There should be more unity in the martial arts society in general. Rivalry, competition and mockery is regrettably more the rule than the exception. Is for example not OK to call oneself a Christian and then love cagefighting because it´s animalistic, dirty, rotten and totally out of control. That´s hypocrisy. Greg Park despite of all what people say about him refused to have anything to do with Kujikiri because of his Christian belief. That´s being truthful and honest. I hope people will cultivate more of this instead of cultivating a dirty and nasty attitude towards martial arts. Sometimes it´s like the martial artists have become worse than the bullies they feared before they started practising martial arts.
I think a lot of this could be down to youtubes sorting algorithm.
I find it all fascinating from the historical to the fiction (80's Ninja's and Cyberpunk settings even). Then again, I love the straight sword that is synonymous now with the Ninja just as much as the curved sword... The whole straight vs curved thing is utter crap. It's all like a bit of a legend. We are introduced to the Ninja through the black outfit and Ninja-to and then digging deeper, you find where the reality was and how the "somewhat" heroic fantasy version came to be. There is no wrong or right in it... it's all good!!! I can be reading Antony's book and enjoying it and then throw on a Sho Kosugi movie and keep enjoying it. I think the people that lose the enjoyment of it are the ones that are constantly pushing for only one side of the history to ever be highlighted, whether that is the historical or the fantasy.
I'm all for bringing Ninjas back to the forefront and using fantasy to highlight historical. Let's just enjoy everything about it!!!
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People want to say "I'm a black belt in ninjutsu" or "I'm a ninja". The whole western need for ego stroking and paper certificates is all it is
Antony - Greg Park was a target for more than his share of haters and trolls, but regardless of the name of his art or his lineage, he demonstrated some legitimate skills that were clearly acquired through time and effort. There are rumors that he passed away, possibly a few years ago, but I cannot find anything to confirm it. Given your long history with Greg, I am hoping that you may be able to shed some light on this. Thank you for any information that you can provide.
Me neither I can not find anything on it
Was just looking back some nostalgic youtube stuff and wondering how this guy was going found out he is dead but no confirmation either. If you find anything, please share. His videos encouraged me and sparked my interest to learn a few new weapons and ended up taking up martial arts ever since.
He's _completely_ disappeared...
... that's true Ninjutsu!
that is random internet rumor that he is dead. if someone stops making videos they are dead? i think we need solid proof like announcment from one of his students. on youtube there is just random guy talking about it and ASSUMING and next video he makes another saying he don't even know. that don't prove yet anything.
His Facebook page is active on 24 September 2022
i can tell you this when i was a kid in the 80s i loved ninja s ,sho kosugi movies were my fav but i would watch anything with a ninja in it,then i kinda lost interest a little because the movies got real bad and went away and the ninja craze was over,i still liked ninjas but i was no longer obsessed with them.
then cut to a few years ago i saw choson on youtube and at first i thought he was pretty cool and seemed to know his stuff but i found the more i watched him the more crazy he seemed so i started looking up some of the things he was saying and found a lot of things wrong and i also started to watch his haters vids because he kept talking about haters al the time so i figured i would get both sides of the story
thats when i found dean and juzo and then later antony and for awhile i couldn't get enough of the ninja drama ,it was fun to watch but i also wanted som more ninja info so i bought 3 of antony's books (i love them btw) and i learned a lot about ninjas but at the same time i found the more i learned the less interest i had in them because a lot of the cool myths were shattered when the truth came out and it kinds ruined ninjas for me a little
when the ninja drama died down and my interest dried up a bit i moved on to other interests and only looked at ninja stuff once in a while,i think a lot of people just lost interest in ninjas and now everyones watching the big youtube drama going on lately with all the big youtube channels superheros have got more popular as well and ninjas are fading away again but i think ninjas will be back again in the future cause they never stay gone forever and we will see another ninja boom
I bet you thought no one would read your entire long comment. Well guess what? I did. I do believe that we will get another ninja boom perhaps in 40 years maybe. When a new Tenchu game comes out or when Ubisoft finally makes an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan (yes, that franchise will never die).
I used to watch Chosun ninja, too. Years ago. I remember him mentioning things about his haters many times but I always assumed they were trolls in the comment section. Back then I didn't know about all the ninja drama going on. Years later I learned about Antony Cummins.
Here is the problem that Antony followers fail to realize that is that Antony research while impressive is only half the truth. He is looking at everything through those documents he can get his hands on. What is contained in documents that were destroyed or that are in private collections may provide validity to the things Antony disputes. Much of the martial arts can be applied to the samurai and therefore the ninja. one example is the straight sword. There is numerous documentaries on the fact that the Samurai took the straight sword, which they found difficult to draw while and horseback, and curved it to make it easier to wield. Breathing techniques found in many martials arts have been traced way back to feudal times. Now please don't get me wrong...But just as Antony tells martial artist to let go of the word Ninja, he needs to let go of the word Truth. Regardless of which path you take, both sides have a bit of truth to them and a bit of assumptions.
By Dean,you mean Dean Roshtokar from Croatia
No but the dean I mean no longer posts
I trained Togakure Ryu in the late 80s, in London UK,that's practically 16th century)
“I will work with anyone” except Chris Flynn hahahaha
Hello Chris talk to me. Tell me whats going on. I read a comment of yours awhile back discussing authentic training. If you have time can you break down what is going on between you and Antony? Have you shelfed the idea of working with Antony? Have you tried sending him emails already? I would like to understand when you have the time. Take your time ofcourse. Handle your priorities. Get back to me when you get a chance! I thought it was interesting what you were proposing. I'm curious to know why you haven't been able to establish a dialogue with Antony. Can you update me on your goals regarding training?
I was wondering why your name was so familiar then I realized I have like 5 ninja books with you as the author XD
Is Greg Park still living?
No idea no one seems to know
@@AntonyCummins Strange.
@@michaelmcclure9350 Hello! Just want to let you know that Antony doesn't receive notifications for replies to his replies so he didn't see your follow up comment. Just for future reference!
Anthony-Who is the author (Eric)?And what has he Written ?
+ToLightToFight Look up Eric Shahan on Amazon. I love all of his books!!
+Gabriel Rossa I did mean to mention you but as you still doing bits and bats i forgot. Sorry.
+Gabriel Rossa Thank you for the Info.
No it's fine Antony I only make videos once in a while lately.
@@gabrielrossa5004 Hello! Just a heads up Antony doesn't receive notifications for replies to his replies so he didn't receive your follow up comment. Just for future reference. Have a great day!
Distance yourself from those very people. There is no community. The time and energy spent networking with frauds and critics would be better spent on your own channel. You are the tip of the spear. Christa, Greg and Dean have only detracted from what you are doing.
ninja summit anyone?
+jamcalx I'm down.
Me thinks the coast guard went to his head... I never worry about the loud abrasive guy.. i worry about the nice quiet man who doesnt want conflict.
Osu is said all the time in Karate and Judo dojo, but not in everyday public. Like people in western culture do. OSUUUSUUSUSUU!!!!!!!!!!! after everything they say.
Who is dean? what is his channel? is it the latescottbaio? He is very sarcastic and has gotten more muscular lately.
Update: Okay dean is scottbaioisdead latescottbair bullshit martial arts etc..
By the way I think people is too hard on Chosun/Greg Park. Maybe I don´t know him well enough, but despite all this hate and trash people throw at him, I think his reaction is quite admirable. He doesn´t react hatefully himself but let people know that he can also be a bit sarcastic if he wants too. Instead he reacts with intelligence, humour and love. Much more balanced than all that hatefull emotion-stuff seen by his opponents. That is something we can all learn from I think.
He has emailed me personally cussing me out and threatening me
Michael MacConn>>> You got a point there. People are tired of all the antfuckery over small and logical things that shouldn´t cause endless and exhausting debates that one looses interest in because they´re silly and doesn´t bring us any new perspective or wisdom at all. They don´t even bring us closer as a brotherhood or society, which I´ve had a secret dream about for long. The most worrying thing is that one should expect practitioners to develop, grow and mature together. Instead a lot of childish and egoistical crusades over irrelevant things arises. One get to think that it´s like Kindergarten again where everyone propagates for their own sake and things all the time. It´s like shouting and yelling about their own amazingness and degrading others all the time has become the order of the day. People should find together and build strong bands and friendships which is a much more beautiful thing than all the trashtalking and warmongering.
have you look at black dragon ninjitsu by ron collins. it has some historical part but for what i'm into i like it. i've had some great conversations with ron.
Did greg park die??
I'm quite glad I was around in the peak period 2 or 3 years ago, even though i'd just watch and never comment. I'd just got into the youtube ninja scene, when Greg was uploading most days, and that would ignite several response videos, then the comments section would be ablaze with arguments from various sides. Better entertainment than a TV show!
@ Anthony Cummings what about the musashi ninja clan in japan. There history lianage is traceable .
Maybe it's not that people aren't interested, maybe it's that in part, you're the uninvited guest at the party. You pissed in the cheerios. The parent that jumps out from behind the door to shake your finger at them, when they were already doing what makes them happy. Who invited the cops to show up and bust all the Players? Eh, who knows....
I always watched your videos but for some reason I just stopped getting the notifications! Not sure why but I just let it slide- Found your historical ninjitsu vids and I LOVE them - please do not make them shorter!
Go to the notifications bell and set it to all. That should fix it! Have a great day!
Is it true greg park passed away? he was a very good guy.
No info on it
I saw a website that seemed to be by one of his friends saying he passed of cancer in early 2021 but I don’t want to start rumors if it’s incorrect
@@asherwitherup7476 he was one of the best.
@@mtango9985 I agree, I will really miss him if he did pass but I’m grateful for his time here teaching
Antony, Crista, Park.....none of you have anything to do with ninjutsu. None of you even read or write Japanese.
The problem is Ant. Not everyone agrees with you. There's too many people that want Ninjustu to be martial arts. And your historical Ninjustu as killed their dreams. Not everyone wants the truth. It's like telling a Christians the truth about their religion. They don't want to hear the truth. It's the same here. You're a threat. All the people you name want Ninjustu to be a martial art. Which why I don't bother with those people.
+432fuuzz A lot of Christians do not know the history of Christianity. Real Christianity is really no different from Judaism. It took 1,000 years for Christianity to establish itself as a religion. The religion has been hijacked by foreigners like the Romans, Greeks, taken out it's original culture content and place in another, has been rewitten numerous times. The King James Bible, is not the real Bible. The real Christian Bible is one written in Aramaic. Christianity and Islam are really different secs of Judaism.
+LittleImpaler There are also a lot of Christians that love learning Christian history and know it well. Early Christian history doesn't in any way invalidate the faith. Not sure if that's what you're implying, but it sort of seemed like it. Of course Christianity grew out of Judaism, but Jews today do not, and never have, believed Jesus of Nazareth is the messiah prophesied in the Old Testament. I completely agree about the KJV Bible being frankly a sloppy translation - I wish people would learn Aramaic and Greek, study the earliest documents, and then talk about what the best translation is.
Darker Instincts Even the early Greek translations are messed up. Because they took a cult that started in the Middle East, that was written with an anicent Middle Eastern mindset, and changed the manuscripts to fit their culture and mindset. A lot Christians don't really follow Christianity. Christians take the word messiah to mean something special. When in reality there were many messiahs, Messiah is just a person in Abrahamic religions. Jesus is just a person. Jews keep telling Christians that, but a lot Christians don't understand that, or don't want to hear it. In real bible there's no heaven or hell in real Christianity. That heaven in real Christianity is no different from the Jews view of heaven. That heaven is what you make of your life on Earth.
Christians aren't supposed to eat pork. Christians men aren't suppose to cut their hair. And Christian women are supposed to cover their hair like the Muslims. This list could go on and on.
The only people that really understand Christianity are the Jews.
Jeues knew he was the lamb of God. You tell Christians that, they get mad. Christianity in the West isn't really Christianity.
+432fuuzz I am going to correct you. First off there is no evidence that Vlad Tepse was religious or not. The new Testament has NOTHING to do with Christianity in the first place. The Testament is a creation of foreigners taking over the religion and turning it into something it was not. Christianity it's is purest form is no different from Islam and Judaism. Real Christianity has the same laws as Judaism and Islam. Even Jeues said " Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them."
But far too many Christians skip that part and go off and do their own thing. If the real Bible ever replace the King James Version. A lot Christians would be very upset that they have be a Jew. Christians don't follow real Christianity.
There was a reason why in the medieval times the priest called the Jews the Old Christians. Because they knew even back then a Christian was really a Jew. Christianity today, really has nothing to do with Jeues, because many Christians don't even follow what Jeues said or did.
For someone who doesn't really follow Christianity. You sure are really upset about what I have to say about it. Which you have just proven my point why some people get upset at Ant, and don't want to work with him, because they get their emotions tied into it just like you did.
May I ask you where you get your sources/knowledge from? Name some scholars whose material you studied to come to your conclusions. Do you have a college degree in religious studies, new testament scholarship, etc? You bring up so many points it would take more time than I currently have to deal with each individually, so I'd like to know where you've gotten this information from. Of course if you say you have a masters in religious studies I'll just have to take your word from it, but it's a start.
I have the one be you helped with but I would love a proper teacher. There are none in my area
Look historical or not, what studying any modern re-invention of ninjutsu allows a student to study a wide range of skills in a single system,. Its too bad the community got into so much reputation tarnishing. It has splintered everyone and injected a lot of mistrust. Im familiar with bujunkan like Akban from Israel, Christa and Greg Park. I actually like what they teach. At the end of the day you have to ask yourself, are you better for doing the training or not.
No anything about felix Vasquez modern ninjitsu koga ryu circle one system. Many videos on him.
This guy looks like Connor Mcgregor.
He´s Irish (lest I be mistaken?) They all look like that ! ;-) [just kidding]
I think it was really "sexy" or the "cool" thing to watch when you were literally calling out people for lying and/or unknowingly teaching false information. To tell you the truth, I heard that ninja wasn't a martial art a long time ago as a kid BUT the idea that Ninjutsu was a hand to hand martial art, like I've seen in the movies (which was really Gung Fu or TKD/Karate, with sword fencing), was much more enticing to believe.
that being said I REALLY appreciate you setting out to find the TRUTH Antony!
It could also be because like you've said before people could be SO set in their ways they are somehow shamed, and prefer to be in an area where they aren't criticized for teaching what they believe, even though it's not correct.
I'm really interested in your teachings and discoveries in Ninjutsu. I however have my own Martial arts journey I'm working on. I spend a lot of time into practice (blk TKD while working on my BJJ BLK belt, while getting familiar with Muay thai and MMA) so I only have time to read some of your books or watch your videos and try to learn that way. I wouldn't know how to give back to the Ninjutsu community. The Ninja however is my BIG reason for getting into martial arts! I'm interested in learning!
CZcamsrs recently have been doing their own movie like videos...you could gain new followers doing a documentary you've done yourself. ( that way the info is correct)
I'm enjoying the Ninja Training series you're doing and the videos of Japan you do!
I don't think you should change anything but if you want to get more fictional Ninja enthusiasts to become interested about the true history of the Ninja. You could hook up with some other youtube channels that like making movie like quality programs.
I hope you don't give up Antony and keep on teaching!
+Erick R When I was a kid in the 80s I thought Sho Kosugi really was a ninja.
+Tupac Spock I was buying into that stuff growing up too.
You can climb! Hahaha, cool!
I don't think popular culture will serve ourselves well... Budo Ryu is new and still developing... Bottom line Ninjutsu isn't a big secret... Ninpo Judo Jutsu... more than just combat... I suggest constant practice meditation and Our place in the world... From foundation to goals
Personal opinions and emotions always get in the way of success, its a shame.
I gotta say I love your channel and all your info, thanks. I think the problem with ninjutsu in a modern pop cultural sense is that its passe to hipsters and so goes mass interest. also some internet formats wear you down. trolls and all
Do jiujitsu choke evey one 😂like a muda freaking samurai!!!!
Upload & pour your heart out on the videos you want to produce, which is all the Ninja history youve learned. If you have 1 view in each Ninja history video, guess what?,... You have one student. 100 - 200 students is outstanding!! I get happy when I get 1 view in my videos on youtube. If youre are trying to get more interest & changing your videos, Maybe do 1 or 2 Ninja history videos & 1 or 2 new type videos to bring in more interest (just an example). Pour out all the Ninja knowledge you have to fulfill your number 1 goal . 70% Ninja history 30% what the audience wants (example). You must fill your channel & finish your Ninja history goal.
HOnestly I'm not sure NInjutsu needs more CZcamsrs, we all could start making videos but what's the point, if all we would do is just repeat yourself or someone else who is doing it for a long time, that won't spread the word, it will just make more under hundred views videos, only hope is that some historical document that could interest general martial arts based community shows up to make historical ninjutsu brake trough.
Instead of this fantasy world ninja history why dont you dive and research the historical semi independent iga republic wich nobunaga destroyed but that is the world were your idols operated
Well, my tip is to abandon the foolish idea of working with the pathological liars, disturbed and mentally ill senseis and anshus. What do you expect from then - other than chasing their own tail.
Jesus Christus>>>>> Correct, and yet there are some people who thinks Hatsumi is both ridiculous and a fraud allthough his skill is obvious, when he demonstrates it...