How to hide your presence [MINI-GUIDE]
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Stealth techniques
How to know if I am being followed (walking)
Why is it important to be able to tell if someone is following us? As we said many times, a big part of self-defense is made by prevention (read Personal defense: the S.A.F.E. method). The fact of becoming able to understand if someone is following us could avoid us to face bad situations like: Attempts […]
Ninja (shinobi): who they were and how they acted
What do common people think when they hear the word “ninja”? Probably the first image that comes to mind is that of men: Dressed in black (read Invisibility: the best night stealth color) With mask and hood Who throw deadly shuriken Who continuously make acrobatic jumps Who climb between the roofs Who disappear behind clouds […]
Stealth mobility
A stealth mobility mini-guide Premises Dojo (guan): rules, respect and etiquette – The rules to practice proficiently and without useless risks How to train without risks – A guide about how to practice safely and reduce the risks Invisibility tips Invisibility: the best night stealth color – How to perfectly blend with the surrounding Invisibility: hiding […]
The characteristics of a good hiding place
On what occasions does it make sense to hide our presence? With this tutorial, we continue the topic regarding the stealth techniques related to the invisibility (read Invisibility: hiding in the shadow). In our S.A.F.E. self-defense method (read Personal defense: the S.A.F.E. method), the third letter of the acronym means for “flee” (leave the threatening […]
9 teachings from the movie Batman Begins
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 […]
5 ground crawling exercises ideal for beginners / warm-up
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 […]
Invisibility: hiding in the shadow
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) Note – This article has been asked by one of our Core Course practitioners on Patreon (see how […]
Stealth walking: tips and notes
How to effectively learn to walk silently Connecting us to the topic of stealth walking (started with Stealth walking: an introductory exercise) we want to give a set of tips and tricks to learn and practice better. To start it is important to stress that: To truly learn how to walk without being noticed is not […]
Stealth walking: Technique 1
How to walk (almost) without making noise After having seen the introductory exercise for the silent walking (read Stealth walking: an introductory exercise), we move now to the first practical technique (the one that, better than the others, describes the general method). A note by Master Kongling – There are various techniques and variations for […]
Stealth walking: an introductory exercise
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, […]
What we need to develop the overall view
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 […]
The overall view: see everything, do not look at anything
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 […]
A self-defense trick: the secret guard stances
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, […]
Create a custom mimetic suit: colors and realization
The best camouflage suit is the one that is created contextually with the scenario After having discussed the ideal color for night camouflage (read Invisibility: the best night stealth color), let’s continue to explore the idea of “invisibility” in relation to: The visual appearance of colors (in a daylight context) An open scenario (with trees, […]
Invisibility: the best night stealth color
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 […]
Invisibility: how to hide heavy breathing
Breath noise In this article we want to expose a little trick to hide the noise produced by heavy breathing. This technique: Borns primarily with a clear stealth goal – Implementing and training it, we should gradually become able to do not make any noise, even after a strong effort Has two (not so) secondary […]
How to develop the constant attention
Constant attention is not simply a choice Before starting we must stress that: Maintaining instinctive constant attention is not a thing that is enough to decide or understand It is not something that can be done in a few days, it is a forcing that becomes instinct only after a long training To develop this […]
Constant attention: what is and how it works
A definition of constant attention After the introduction to constant attention (read Avert dangers: the concept of constant attention), we continue the discussion, defining what it is and how it works. In general we can say that thi skill is: A constant passive scanning of the what happen aroud us made to identify any possible […]
Avert dangers: the concept of constant attention
How can we avert dangers? When an antelope drinks from the brook, it is calm but its senses are all aimed to capture every little environmental anomaly. Despite all the tricks that the predator can use, he will find difficult to catch us by surprise: If we are naturally connected with the surroundings If we know […]
Advanced training: gradually learn to fight in the dark
How to empower the perception Our goal is not so much to become able to fight in the darkness but to learn to do not base our fighting capability on the sight, to listen to the other senses and mental faculties like: Spatial intelligence – With wich, we can create a mental map of the […]
Be invisible in the crowd: divert attention
At the base of deception: divert the attention In this article, we continue the discussion about how to “disappear” in the crowd (read Be invisible in the crowd: eyes and attitudes). As illusionists do, most importantly than having a good juggling ability, we need a good way to divert attention from the trick itself. The […]
Be invisible in the crowd: eyes and attitudes
The importance of eyes and attitudes Resuming the discussion on how to be invisible in the crowd (read Be invisible in the crowd: preparation and clothing), we want to talk more in detail about the focal aspects related to the impact of our expressivity in relation to the eventual observers: To be invisible in the crowd is […]
Be invisible in the crowd: preparation and clothing
Invisibility: the starting point To do not call the attention of the people around us, we must maintain the appearance of a normal, healthy, in good shape but not too “showy” person. If we imagine a scenario in which we want to go unnoticed, the first step (even before thinking about clothing and attitude) is […]
Night vision
Can humans see in low light conditions? Yes, better than we can imagine but before replying, it is important to stress some facts about the scotopic vision (night vision): No one can see in complete darkness – There are a lot of ways to “manage” the dark but, as long as we speak purely about […]
Identify the dangers as animals do
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