Can a Hollywood movie transmit something useful in terms of martial arts? Everything can teach us something, the discriminant is the interpretation we give to what we catch through our senses. A good martial arts practitioner should always be: Openminded enough to catch even the smallest lesson from the most unexpected circumstances Rational and smart […]
Ground crawling exercises In this article, we want to see 5 types of ground crawling exercises for beginners. Important premises: Do stretching before starting (read Basic soft stretching and How to correctly perform stretching) These exercises can be performed as a warm-up (read Basic warm-up and How to correctly perform warm-up) Train safely, do not […]
How to hide our presence In any circumstance, the most effective way to hide our presence (as Ninjutsu teaches us) is to: Get in harmony with nature, with the surrounding environment Abandon our human form and becoming “nothing” (nothing of relevant) To become invisible, we do not necessarily have to do not be seen, heard (etc.): we must rather […]
To learn how to walk so stealthy is not in any way sufficient a periodic training. We will never learn to be silent and to be part of the environment if we do not decide to live according to this principle consistently (or at least in all the moments in which it is reasonable to […]
The basic concepts of stealth walking As Ninjutsu teaches us, the same concepts that we have introduced talking about invisibility in the crowd (read Be invisible in the crowd: divert attention), returns in stealth walking: To do not get noticed we do not (only) need to walk silently We want to reproduce rhythm, pace, intensity, […]
Is the overall view a suppressed instinct? Continuing the discussion about the overall view (read The overall view: see everything, do not look at anything) we want to start to understand how to develop it. The first things to know are that: The overall view is a skill that most of the animals possess (especially if […]
What is the overall view? The normal process of data recovering through sight is: Generic – We search where and what we expect Superficial – We rarely give a meaning to what we see Ingenuous – We look for big and obvious variation Prejudicial – We often catch only the information we want Slow – We […]
When to use a hidden guard stance As we have already mentioned (read The signals that precede an attack: introduction), in a real situation, our opponents always try to do not let us understand what they really want to do. Until they are in close contact with us (a distance often less than our forearm, […]
After analyzing the ideal color for night camouflage, let us explore the idea of invisibility in relation to the visual appearance of colors. Here are some interesting ideas on which to dwell: Starting from the concept of a low-saturated base color, we have to study the hues more persistent in areas where we will move, […]
Find the 2 ninjas in the image To practically understand what is the most effective stealth color in conditions of low light let’s do a little game. In the image of this article there are 3 hidden characters (how many can we see?): The first wears a black suit (he is a fake-ninja) The second wears […]