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To provide western people the most useful and valuable personal protection training based on my study and testing of the historical Japanese ninja combat method, I had to do a lot of adapting. As a researcher, I enjoyed putting the historical puzzle pieces together to produce a useful defense method. At the same time, I knew very few people would be able or willing to spend years translating Japanese classics into modern western tools. In order to be of relevance in my home community, I had to adapt the ancient principles into a new and culturally relevant shape.

Fights in 1500s Japan were different from fights in 21st century America. Culture, laws, environmental factors—and even clothing of the time—influenced the development of Japan’s feudal age fighting systems. Some major differences from today are important:

All these factors influenced the development of the ninja and samurai martial art of taijutsu 体術, literally translated as “the art or science of using the body in combat.” In this classic Japanese fighting form, fighters strategically stayed far apart until the moment of clash, flexed their knees deeply to lower the seat close to the slippery or dusty ground, and often began attacks with long lunging footwork characteristic of Japanese sword cutting, where a right leg would step and propel a same-side right hand shove, grab, or stab.