Learn Ninjutsu - The 9 Martial Schools Within Modern Bujinkan Ninja Training 54545445

One of the least understood aspects of modern ninja school training, is the taking on and assimilation of the techniques, tactics, and strategies of other schools throughout history. In fact, the Bujinkan Dojo of Soke Masaaki Hatsumi, current-generation headmaster of the Togakure-Ryu of ninja school, includes the techniques, weapons, and teachings of at least 8 other traditional Japanese schools of martial arts.

But, rather than seeing these 9 schools as "styles," in the conventional sense, modern practitioners should recognize that each school has contributed it's own strengths to the overall body of knowledge. Instead of trying to separate and compartmentalize each ryu-ha as a different entity as it was once-upon-a-time, modern students need to understand that today's training reflects a very powerful model that is made up of the "best-of-the-best" from a wide range of sources.

The list of the ninja school traditional schools, which form the foundation for training for both the Bujinkan Dojo as-well-as the curriculum that I used for my own personal students, is offered here as an introduction to the power that lies waiting for the student who is ready to take massive action and go beyond the concept of being a mere martial artist - to becoming a true warrior in every sense of that word.

It's important to see beyond the "toys," "forms," and other surface-level appearances that each school seems to be made up of. It's also important, unless we are training for purely aesthetic reasons, that we must be able to extract the important combat and life strategies from each, if they are to do us any good in the modern world.

So, the following list contains not only the name of the school, and it's primary specialty, but also the strategic "place" that each holds for real-world self protection in today's world.