Antony Cummins and Kawakami Sensei are my two favourite leaders in the Shinobi community. Each is very different but both are incredibly humble and uniquely brilliant. Ryan 158
Just last night I was reading Eric Shahan's translation of Seiko Fujita's "What is Ninjutsu?", and he used the term Nindo too! Not as a historical word, more of an idea that suited his paragraph. Now add to that Nindo-ryu which has been around since the 80s, started by Carlos Febres, and then don't forget To Shin Do, which is a breakdown of nin do. I'd like to add that I look forward to seeing more from Kawakami and I'm glad he's trying to disseminate historical ninjutsu. In fact I wish I was involved in his projects if there were any ways I could help craft things from the scrolls.
Kawakami isn’t a bloodline descendant I met him last weekend in Agatsuma, Gunma. He is the real deal though. Iyoku Matsukaze is also very much the real deal and a bloodline descendant of the Azuma ninja who worked for the Sanada clan. He’s a nice dude and had some amazing skills. Ninja often do not ‘come out’ because it’s still kind of taboo. And ninja tourism is still seen as gimmicky nonsense in Japan. They’re trying to change that in Agatsuma.
I plan on doing a ninja club in my Town... We would work with your books for the scrolls translations, ibhave to thank you for the very amazing work you do!
As a kid I thought these "Ninja" guys like Hatsumi and Hayes were jsut the coolest thing ever. Now as an adult I watch their old and new stuff and I think that my grandma could have kicked their asses. The really bad part is that my father who was an old barroom brawler told me that they were full of crap then and even threatened to throw all my ninja books out because I thought that you really could kill someone by poking them behind the ear. Now as an adult, I have to admit that he was right!! I'd love to give Hayes and Hatsumi the saki test with a pool cue!! LOL!!
I only say, the words of Christa Jacobson, and the things she teach, ARE NOT the same traditional things master KAWAKAMI teach to his students; Jacobson make a Mix between modern things (like Kempo or kick boxing), Bujinkan things, and in the shinobi techniques read (word by word) of the books of Antony to his students, say them she have the scrools (???)... and NINDO is a word used by others false ninja schools in USA, before Jacobson and before this Mie and Shiga turist business; but, is master KAWAKAMI who wishes to deliver these teachings to the public, without the traditional bujutsu. If the people wants learn only the old bujutsu, today master KIYOMOTO and MURATA sensei teach that part. And Jacobson use in a bad way the KAMON of the Ban Family, but not know nothing of the real traditions of the Ban Family, sorry but that is the truth.
in reference to the title sequence in one of the intro videos on his channel he does introduce the ninja in brown czcams.com/video/NjVaR0NCVo0/video.html&ab_channel=NINDOCHANNEL
I heard he has the support of the Japanese government so he must be legit and he's teaching are more accurate than what i seen bujikan doing on video!i believe bujikan is a mixed from different schools with some ninjutsu inplemented into it but watching nindo channel i can say i can see a more accurate shinobi training
Didn’t Carlos Febres (RIP) coin the term “Nindo,” years ago? Idk but i’ve seen that name in many places during my youth. Carlos was most common. He was supposedly taught by Ronald Duncan. Im curious…
Regarding the channel what I've seen so far it's Kawakami teaching from the scrolls and being honest about it. On what they do in the fiscal school I'm not there so I don't know.
I think it would be cool to open a dojo that teaches boxing, muay thai, bjj, and ACTUAL historical ninjutsu (at least what you could teach safely). I'd hire competent instructors to teach the martial arts and nobody would claim that the martial arts were PART of ninjutsu, they're just cool add-ons for practical self defense (or people could choose to just learn them and not the ninjutsu stuff if that's what they wanted because they'd be separate classes). The ninjutsu would be taught from the scrolls and nobody would make any bullshit claims about being a long-lost descendant of a Shinobi or anything, it would be just for enjoyment/historical purposes.
You're probably better off making that "ninjutsu" class into a "survivalist" group where you and your group shoot guns, play paintball, go hiking, camping, play Manhunt, hunt together, etc. It'll give you close to military skills short of actively being in the military.
Hmmm....Anshu Christa Jacobson do it that, and (for me) IS NOT SHINOBI NO JUTSU...why, because like the old teachings of survivor, medicine, poisons, etc...the BUJUTSU is old too, is like you say: I want make TENSHIN SHODEN KATORI SHINTO RYU, but only the name and I teach Gong Fu, Silat, Kendo and ping-pong (for reflex) ...is Katori?
There's already a group of wanna be guys calling themselves nindo ryu. One of those groups with no heritage or bloodline, awarding each other belt ranks every Thursday. You a different color belt on these guys every month.
Kawakami san does not claim to be a direct descendent. He says clearly that he has no bloodline. However, he claims that the person he learned from was and that he was "adopted" as being part of his family from his teacher.
Yeah man, we should talk. I would like you to express your work and thoughts in my field. Me personally... I like their approach! It looks fun! Shit! Nin-Do these guys take students from the USA? I will move to Japan for this. Lol! So much fun!
nice video bro hi Gabriel i see Kawakmi New work people was confuse but i clear up to people a little then start under stand really NInjutsu don't look like ninjutsu of today it have climbing skill and running skill even thoes i do Togekure ryu ninjutsu and ninpo but i have note threw the year of hear your stuff and your work and put in from real scroll yes wrote down what you point out from the scroll i am volum 2 for my Densho for my self thumb up
@@blackswordshinobi You train a fantasy, sorry pal...and combat is not "shinobi no jutsu" techniques...you only train a gendai BUJUTSU style, similar to Aikido, a new representation of some maybe old...
Didn't this guy say that his teaching would die with him? :p "Ninjutsu is often regarded as martial arts, but martial arts are an indispensable thing for ninja, but it is clearly different from ninjutsu. In “Nindo” we will train the skill and spirit of Ninjutsu." -Mission of "Nindo". So it's more about philosophy and the skills more closely associated with the trade? If this is the case I find it pretty appealing and will support his cause. I'm not so fond of the stereotypical "ninjarolls", throwing shuriken or dressing up xD
The answer is simple, to inherit his art (BANKE SHINOBI NO DEN KOKÄ RYU) he need a little boy and "torture him", because things like take off your shoulders and hips skills today all society says is a toture; and he can´t teach this things ti adults; he can teach principles and bujutsu, today he teach history and principles and his older students the old bujutsu...but, his daughter (of 5 or 6 years old) wants learn, maybe the Ban Family have a inheritor in the future.
I see envy, a lot of envy even for making a video focused on critically criticizing a channel like a hater, since it has an important number of subscribers. Just as Jujutsu became less aggressive and more Olympic, with really important blows banned and became the currently known judo / jujitsu / jiujitsu his proposal is to bring to the knowledge of people what he has in the museum and what he researched and learned for today's people. And nowadays many still use the word ninja instead of shinobi, it doesn't have to be the most traditional and old one because his goal is to bring the knowledge he has to people today when people are initially introduced to the word ninja and then the channel named "NINDO". And in an interview he says that this "nin of the name nindo" is from nintai and not ninjutsu, ninjutsu was one of the skills of shinobi / ninja. Watch the full video to make criticisms that are not constructive
Cummins is pretty hypocritical in that he attempted to start his own school of “ninjitsu” . To me i see all of this is theater. To be fair I think Kawakami is probably the most authentic of any modern claimants, we cannot prove it for sure but I think his claims are quite convincing considering it doesn’t contradict historical documentation and he seems to know something resembling a detailed oral and practical tradition. In anycads i donnu what to make out of his new school. He is getting older and maybe he changed his mind on letting the tradition die with him. The problem is that this will cause many of his students to go and start their own schools and gradually it will become corrupted with money and more LARPing.
Maybe because you want see MARTIAL ARTS, and shoshike only show principles of real "shinobi no jutsu"; I have a lot of katas with weapons and with bare hands combat in mi computer, but you need practice with him of his students...and "shinobi no jutsu" techniques are not for fight too...sorry.
@@AntonyCummins Oh please, don't fool yourself, there are Kawakami videos showing shuriken, the use of swords, and Kyoketsu Shoge, with complete misunderstanding of proper body mechanics. I agree with your conclusions: shinobi no jutsu is not about hand to hand combat or armed combat, is about scouting, infiltration, espionage. But if most ninja were samurai, they had to be competent martial artists. And Kawakami is not, he claims to be the last ninja, shows big calluses in his knuckles (an easy way to spot a ninja if that was part of the “ninja skills), and wears the historically incorrect black ninja suit. To me, he´s a complete fraud. And I respect very much your research as an historian, but I don’t think you have the martial skills to resuscitate and be the head of a samurai school even is the Japanese family who owns the school, gave you their blessing.
@@ogarzabello Sr. "Oscar Garza Bello", mexicano, quien se dedica al "análisis y humor sobre política y economía por un maquiavélico Liberal Clásico" (con esa descripción huele a "niño rata" ya)...quisiera decirle, en español, que : si usted desconoce quien es KAWAKAMI Jinichi, si usted jamás ha entrenado su bujutsu, si con suerte ha visto algún vídeo donde aparece (y debe haberlo confundido, porque en ninguno usa esa arma de Bujinkan), no diga que es un fraude....obviamente y quizás por ser tan "maquiavélico" usted desea que lo él lo sea, pero para suerte de muchos, no lo es; bye bye ,,,, Mr. "Oscar Garza Bello", citizen of Mexico, who describe yourself like a man which make "analisis and jokes about politic and economy make by a Classic Liberal dude" (I smell a "ninja rat turtle here now) ... I want tell you this: If you don´t know who is KAWAKAMI Jinichi, if you never are training his bujutsu, if you only see some videos of him (or maybe you confusses him with other person in some video, because he never use a Bujinkan imaginary weapon) please, don´t say he is a fraud...maybe because you are so mean, you want master Kawakami was a fraud, but is not...for a good luck of everybody!! bye-bye!!
So you’re saying Kawakami for lack of names , decided to just look for an obscure American claimant and steal her name? That’s ridiculous! It sounds like you’re bit jealous
Anthony with all due respect, your academical framework, and orientation thowards inspection of history, doesnt give you legitimacy, to critique anyone, as you lack the most important field or sector in Martial Arts, wich is, the learning and training itself, wich you obviously dont view as important enough, compared to all sideshow, with scrolls etc, as I remember you had an e mail school, where you promised to make students, senseis of natori ryu. Where are your credentials about, fight understanding or experience, and where are your basis of, the most important aspects in warriors way, that can be accieved only through physical training, that give you legitimacy, to Call out others. You for example, have massive faults, in your sword drawing theqniques, the depht of your understanding of the most basic aspects of martial arts (ninjutsu or not ninjutsu), is very shallow, and surface level. And its ok, you are focusing on philosophy, and historical context. No amount of scrolls, or having only single voice in echo cambers, can give you a quick way to physical understanding, or give your body, the flow wich orientate ones basic senses to control the chaos, when real martial arts is needed. Chatolic historian, have no basis to claim, that he understand what the knights who took part in crusades and theyre ways, were all about. Surely you understand this. You have your own field, where no competing voices exist, and it has real legitimacy, but you Make a mockery of your self, when you engage in debates about martial arts (not their history), or teach theqniques to others etc. Friend I love your content, but you are not martial artist. And the posery, where you give so much credit to your opinions, (like they were purely objective, void of any sort of bias), like your support were to be, most highest ,and the most critical factor, about whoes ways are legitimate and whoes doesnt,all this scream about delusions of grandeur. Wheter you like it or not, eventhough some of these schools, are based on farytales, they already have evolved their own legend or starting myths, just like schools in old Japan also did, and I bet, that, it is not likely for example, that tengu teached kenjutsu, to iisaisa choizai. All of these legends were some time ago based on bs stories. The issue is, at least they all are engaging the most important and hard aspect of martial arts, wich is doing the bloody ground work, and train ,about what is useful what is not. Martial arts is not about lineage, scrolls, or wich permission one have etc. The heart of every martial art way, lies in training to defeat opponent, and to getting know oneself through hard work Bless you .
You can see the new channel here czcams.com/channels/STcD_J0gG9O6f7Ussya2CA.html
Antony Cummins and Kawakami Sensei are my two favourite leaders in the Shinobi community. Each is very different but both are incredibly humble and uniquely brilliant. Ryan 158
Just last night I was reading Eric Shahan's translation of Seiko Fujita's "What is Ninjutsu?", and he used the term Nindo too! Not as a historical word, more of an idea that suited his paragraph. Now add to that Nindo-ryu which has been around since the 80s, started by Carlos Febres, and then don't forget To Shin Do, which is a breakdown of nin do. I'd like to add that I look forward to seeing more from Kawakami and I'm glad he's trying to disseminate historical ninjutsu. In fact I wish I was involved in his projects if there were any ways I could help craft things from the scrolls.
I did not know that. Thank you for pointing it out. I shall log it in my brain.
Where you been, Gaby? It's been 2 years
I've come across kawakami researching certain aspects of ninjutsu. He has an interesting way of life to say the least. ☯️
Kawakami isn’t a bloodline descendant I met him last weekend in Agatsuma, Gunma. He is the real deal though. Iyoku Matsukaze is also very much the real deal and a bloodline descendant of the Azuma ninja who worked for the Sanada clan. He’s a nice dude and had some amazing skills. Ninja often do not ‘come out’ because it’s still kind of taboo. And ninja tourism is still seen as gimmicky nonsense in Japan. They’re trying to change that in Agatsuma.
I plan on doing a ninja club in my Town... We would work with your books for the scrolls translations, ibhave to thank you for the very amazing work you do!
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As a kid I thought these "Ninja" guys like Hatsumi and Hayes were jsut the coolest thing ever. Now as an adult I watch their old and new stuff and I think that my grandma could have kicked their asses. The really bad part is that my father who was an old barroom brawler told me that they were full of crap then and even threatened to throw all my ninja books out because I thought that you really could kill someone by poking them behind the ear. Now as an adult, I have to admit that he was right!! I'd love to give Hayes and Hatsumi the saki test with a pool cue!! LOL!!
“Real ninjutsu”...sure brah.
He actually did do this as a school lol xd
One can not steal something and call it their own. It has to be given. His school is not meant for contests of skill.
I only say, the words of Christa Jacobson, and the things she teach, ARE NOT the same traditional things master KAWAKAMI teach to his students; Jacobson make a Mix between modern things (like Kempo or kick boxing), Bujinkan things, and in the shinobi techniques read (word by word) of the books of Antony to his students, say them she have the scrools (???)... and NINDO is a word used by others false ninja schools in USA, before Jacobson and before this Mie and Shiga turist business; but, is master KAWAKAMI who wishes to deliver these teachings to the public, without the traditional bujutsu. If the people wants learn only the old bujutsu, today master KIYOMOTO and MURATA sensei teach that part. And Jacobson use in a bad way the KAMON of the Ban Family, but not know nothing of the real traditions of the Ban Family, sorry but that is the truth.
in reference to the title sequence in one of the intro videos on his channel he does introduce the ninja in brown czcams.com/video/NjVaR0NCVo0/video.html&ab_channel=NINDOCHANNEL
I remember this video :)
I heard he has the support of the Japanese government so he must be legit and he's teaching are more accurate than what i seen bujikan doing on video!i believe bujikan is a mixed from different schools with some ninjutsu inplemented into it but watching nindo channel i can say i can see a more accurate shinobi training
Didn’t Carlos Febres (RIP) coin the term “Nindo,” years ago? Idk but i’ve seen that name in many places during my youth. Carlos was most common. He was supposedly taught by Ronald Duncan. Im curious…
Regarding the channel what I've seen so far it's Kawakami teaching from the scrolls and being honest about it.
On what they do in the fiscal school I'm not there so I don't know.
I think it would be cool to open a dojo that teaches boxing, muay thai, bjj, and ACTUAL historical ninjutsu (at least what you could teach safely). I'd hire competent instructors to teach the martial arts and nobody would claim that the martial arts were PART of ninjutsu, they're just cool add-ons for practical self defense (or people could choose to just learn them and not the ninjutsu stuff if that's what they wanted because they'd be separate classes). The ninjutsu would be taught from the scrolls and nobody would make any bullshit claims about being a long-lost descendant of a Shinobi or anything, it would be just for enjoyment/historical purposes.
You're probably better off making that "ninjutsu" class into a "survivalist" group where you and your group shoot guns, play paintball, go hiking, camping, play Manhunt, hunt together, etc. It'll give you close to military skills short of actively being in the military.
@@alittlepuertoricanboy1993 That's a cool idea too!
Hmmm....Anshu Christa Jacobson do it that, and (for me) IS NOT SHINOBI NO JUTSU...why, because like the old teachings of survivor, medicine, poisons, etc...the BUJUTSU is old too, is like you say: I want make TENSHIN SHODEN KATORI SHINTO RYU, but only the name and I teach Gong Fu, Silat, Kendo and ping-pong (for reflex) ...is Katori?
There's already a group of wanna be guys calling themselves nindo ryu. One of those groups with no heritage or bloodline, awarding each other belt ranks every Thursday. You a different color belt on these guys every month.
A year later. I will take a look.
Kawakami san does not claim to be a direct descendent. He says clearly that he has no bloodline. However, he claims that the person he learned from was and that he was "adopted" as being part of his family from his teacher.
Yeah man, we should talk. I would like you to express your work and thoughts in my field. Me personally... I like their approach! It looks fun! Shit! Nin-Do these guys take students from the USA? I will move to Japan for this. Lol! So much fun!
Cheers Antony
Neat. What do you make of schools or studios using the same school symbol as Natori-Ryu? As you are who you are, as others just "borrow"?
Many people have that crest. It was common.
Would you say Kawakami is more legit than Masaaki Hatsumi and the Bujinkan?
No one is light. They only can teach historical things, or not teach them.
'ninja cosplay group'......buahhahaha you are killing me with your comments, just brilliant
Rather interesting, indeed.
Oh hey, you've got almost 20k subs. Haha, must be doing something right.
After 10 years not so good
nice video bro hi Gabriel i see Kawakmi New work people was confuse but i clear up to people a little then start under stand really NInjutsu don't look like ninjutsu of today it have climbing skill and running skill even thoes i do Togekure ryu ninjutsu and ninpo but i have note threw the year of hear your stuff and your work and put in from real scroll yes wrote down what you point out from the scroll i am volum 2 for my Densho for my self thumb up
Sorry, but TOGAKURE RYU not exist in the Japan history...
@@cristian.crixus don't matter i still train in Togakure ryu ninjutsu ninpo it IGA scroll mainly MR Cummins still work find it
@@blackswordshinobi You train a fantasy, sorry pal...and combat is not "shinobi no jutsu" techniques...you only train a gendai BUJUTSU style, similar to Aikido, a new representation of some maybe old...
@@cristian.crixus i am training real old "shinobi no jutsu" techniques combat art is only escaping spying real part of ninjutsu
@@blackswordshinobi I say, if you are "trining" Togakure Ryu....you not know about "shinobi no jutsu"
Didn't this guy say that his teaching would die with him? :p
"Ninjutsu is often regarded as martial arts, but martial arts are an indispensable thing for ninja, but it is clearly different from ninjutsu. In “Nindo” we will train the skill and spirit of Ninjutsu." -Mission of "Nindo". So it's more about philosophy and the skills more closely associated with the trade? If this is the case I find it pretty appealing and will support his cause. I'm not so fond of the stereotypical "ninjarolls", throwing shuriken or dressing up xD
I asked him this question, he said he is not passing on his line, just teaching from scrolls.
@@AntonyCummins Cool, thanks.
The answer is simple, to inherit his art
(BANKE SHINOBI NO DEN KOKÄ RYU) he need a little boy and "torture him", because things like take off your shoulders and hips skills today all society says is a toture; and he can´t teach this things ti adults; he can teach principles and bujutsu, today he teach history and principles and his older students the old bujutsu...but, his daughter (of 5 or 6 years old) wants learn, maybe the Ban Family have a inheritor in the future.
Samurai and Ninja History interesting, so he won’t pass down anything he claims to have learned? But only scroll knowledge.
I see envy, a lot of envy even for making a video focused on critically criticizing a channel like a hater, since it has an important number of subscribers.
Just as Jujutsu became less aggressive and more Olympic, with really important blows banned and became the currently known judo / jujitsu / jiujitsu his proposal is to bring to the knowledge of people what he has in the museum and what he researched and learned for today's people. And nowadays many still use the word ninja instead of shinobi, it doesn't have to be the most traditional and old one because his goal is to bring the knowledge he has to people today when people are initially introduced to the word ninja and then the channel named "NINDO".
And in an interview he says that this "nin of the name nindo" is from nintai and not ninjutsu, ninjutsu was one of the skills of shinobi / ninja.
Watch the full video to make criticisms that are not constructive
Hahaa.. damm telephone
will he be talking in his wood shed
What the difference between Nindo and Bujinkan?
Two separate organisations
Koka ninja?😊
Cummins is pretty hypocritical in that he attempted to start his own school of “ninjitsu” . To me i see all of this is theater.
To be fair I think Kawakami is probably the most authentic of any modern claimants, we cannot prove it for sure but I think his claims are quite convincing considering it doesn’t contradict historical documentation and he seems to know something resembling a detailed oral and practical tradition. In anycads i donnu what to make out of his new school. He is getting older and maybe he changed his mind on letting the tradition die with him. The problem is that this will cause many of his students to go and start their own schools and gradually it will become corrupted with money and more LARPing.
I remember an old snes game called Inindo.
I'm already a level Ten Master.
Shouldn't ninja teachings be kept secret? Then why is kawakami and many other people making "the ninja" so famous?
No, they should not. That was hundreds of years ago. There is no need for that anymore.
Nindo.. Don't make me laugh.
I have seen Hatsumi doing many demonstrations, but I haven't see Kawakami do anything interesting.
Not of what he does is historical, so if it is not interesting, normally its because people do not like historical stuff, just fantasy.
Maybe because you want see MARTIAL ARTS, and shoshike only show principles of real "shinobi no jutsu"; I have a lot of katas with weapons and with bare hands combat in mi computer, but you need practice with him of his students...and "shinobi no jutsu" techniques are not for fight too...sorry.
@@AntonyCummins Oh please, don't fool yourself, there are Kawakami videos showing shuriken, the use of swords, and Kyoketsu Shoge, with complete misunderstanding of proper body mechanics. I agree with your conclusions: shinobi no jutsu is not about hand to hand combat or armed combat, is about scouting, infiltration, espionage. But if most ninja were samurai, they had to be competent martial artists. And Kawakami is not, he claims to be the last ninja, shows big calluses in his knuckles (an easy way to spot a ninja if that was part of the “ninja skills), and wears the historically incorrect black ninja suit. To me, he´s a complete fraud. And I respect very much your research as an historian, but I don’t think you have the martial skills to resuscitate and be the head of a samurai school even is the Japanese family who owns the school, gave you their blessing.
@@cristian.crixus You explained very well, dear friend
@@ogarzabello Sr. "Oscar Garza Bello", mexicano, quien se dedica al "análisis y humor sobre política y economía por un maquiavélico Liberal Clásico" (con esa descripción huele a "niño rata" ya)...quisiera decirle, en español, que : si usted desconoce quien es KAWAKAMI Jinichi, si usted jamás ha entrenado su bujutsu, si con suerte ha visto algún vídeo donde aparece (y debe haberlo confundido, porque en ninguno usa esa arma de Bujinkan), no diga que es un fraude....obviamente y quizás por ser tan "maquiavélico" usted desea que lo él lo sea, pero para suerte de muchos, no lo es; bye bye ,,,, Mr. "Oscar Garza Bello", citizen of Mexico, who describe yourself like a man which make "analisis and jokes about politic and economy make by a Classic Liberal dude" (I smell a "ninja rat turtle here now) ... I want tell you this: If you don´t know who is KAWAKAMI Jinichi, if you never are training his bujutsu, if you only see some videos of him (or maybe you confusses him with other person in some video, because he never use a Bujinkan imaginary weapon) please, don´t say he is a fraud...maybe because you are so mean, you want master Kawakami was a fraud, but is not...for a good luck of everybody!! bye-bye!!
So you’re saying Kawakami for lack of names , decided to just look for an obscure American claimant and steal her name? That’s ridiculous!
It sounds like you’re bit jealous
Anthony with all due respect, your academical framework, and orientation thowards inspection of history, doesnt give you legitimacy, to critique anyone, as you lack the most important field or sector in Martial Arts, wich is, the learning and training itself, wich you obviously dont view as important enough, compared to all sideshow, with scrolls etc, as I remember you had an e mail school, where you promised to make students, senseis of natori ryu. Where are your credentials about, fight understanding or experience, and where are your basis of, the most important aspects in warriors way, that can be accieved only through physical training, that give you legitimacy, to Call out others.
You for example, have massive faults, in your sword drawing theqniques, the depht of your understanding of the most basic aspects of martial arts (ninjutsu or not ninjutsu), is very shallow, and surface level. And its ok, you are focusing on philosophy, and historical context.
No amount of scrolls, or having only single voice in echo cambers, can give you a quick way to physical understanding, or give your body, the flow wich orientate ones basic senses to control the chaos, when real martial arts is needed.
Chatolic historian, have no basis to claim, that he understand what the knights who took part in crusades and theyre ways, were all about.
Surely you understand this. You have your own field, where no competing voices exist, and it has real legitimacy, but you Make a mockery of your self, when you engage in debates about martial arts (not their history), or teach theqniques to others etc. Friend I love your content, but you are not martial artist.
And the posery, where you give so much credit to your opinions, (like they were purely objective, void of any sort of bias), like your support were to be, most highest ,and the most critical factor, about whoes ways are legitimate and whoes doesnt,all this scream about delusions of grandeur.
Wheter you like it or not, eventhough some of these schools, are based on farytales, they already have evolved their own legend or starting myths, just like schools in old Japan also did, and I bet, that, it is not likely for example, that tengu teached kenjutsu, to iisaisa choizai. All of these legends were some time ago based on bs stories.
The issue is, at least they all are engaging the most important and hard aspect of martial arts, wich is doing the bloody ground work, and train ,about what is useful what is not. Martial arts is not about lineage, scrolls, or wich permission one have etc. The heart of every martial art way, lies in training to defeat opponent, and to getting know oneself through hard work
Bless you .
That is the most ridiculous answer. Just think about the logic