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Summary: Learn blocking and side punching in the martial arts Ninjutsu in this free self defense video.
Anthony Lucas has been involved in Budo since the mid 1980s. After stumbling upon the book, Ninja Assassins by Brian Adams, Anthony established a contact with Stephen Hayes. Mr. Lucas...read more
" On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Anthony Lucas of the Bujinkan Koteki Dojo of New York City. Today I'm going to show advanced techniques of ninjitsu. The next technique from the *art* is called tatsu maki. OK, same thing. I'm in kamai, Maryl is in ichimoku. She's going to come with a right punch. I'm going to step off and block her punching arm and then she comes with a left punch. I'm going to step off and block her left punch. She'll come with a right and I'm going to block it. Now I'm going to go into...to grab... as I grab, she steps in to punch. I stop her here and then shuto to the neck. Okay, let's take is very slow now. Maryl comes with the right. I'm going to step off and block it. As she comes with the left, I'm going to step off and block it. She comes with the right I'm going to step off... as I go to grab, she punches. I go to block and from here, I just do shuto. So, in real time, what it looks like... with the hand control is (real slow) ... one, two, three, as I come up to block she felt my grab and it's turn..."
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ninpodude said
on 11/27/2008 I think the idea of proper effective kamae were totally forgotten. Huge holes in the movement