The characteristics of a good hiding place
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Stealth techniques
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) To become invisible, we do not necessarily have to do not be seen, heard (etc.): we must rather […]
Stealth walking: tips and notes
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 […]
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, […]