Kyujutsu Ninja Archery - Shinja Ryu - Shiho Kaiten Kuikkushotto

Shidosha, Patrick Dumas demonstrating differences in ninpo style kyujutsu to samurai style kyujutsu that is more strict in form and more so based on formation fighting vs solo as the ninpo variation. This is not to say ninja never used formation archery. It was just not as common as the samurai archers did. Shinja Ryu Kyujutsu are unique teachings. They are NOT found anywhere else on youtube unless they have taken from what I share. Notice my date and theirs and you'll see who's posted sooner. This technique is of the Shoden level teachings. There are no SINGLE known samurai ryuha of which ninja style Kyujutsu originated from. As they originated from VARIOUS CLANS and cultures over decades. Unless anyone can prove me wrong, I stand by that. Some who are practicing the archery in Ninjutsu are using formation style or shooting style kyujutsu OR KYUDO even of the samurai variation. Calling it Ninjutsu Kyujutsu??? when it would NOT have been the way the ninja used the bow and arrow based on how they operated in the field. My videos are to help show the similarities but also the distinct DIFFERENCES of the samurai styles of kyujutsu and kyudo compared to Ninja style combative archery methods. They ARE distinctly different. Not to claim the ninja style is more effective or to bash anyone training in the samurai styles of archery! Both styles as well as Kyudo is effective archery once one has trained enough in it. The videos are merely to help people see the real differences in how the samurai would have moved with this weapon vs the ninja. As an educational video to those inexperienced and as a training video to the experienced. To be real ninjutsu kyujutsu, one does not have to have claim of some scroll or a lineage or rank to some ninjutsu ryu of archery, but rather....be able to incorporate their taihenjutsu methods into the use of the bow. To think one must have a samurai kyujutsu lineage to practice Ninpo archery, you are missing then how ninjutsu grew. Changing arts, altering to fit their own means and molding it to fit their own unique fighting methods. As with any other weapon a student of Ninpo may have to pick up to incorporate Taihenjutsu with, so too with the bow. Don't be stuck inside the box of closed minded thinking. Ninja were free thinkers. They thought outside the box. They did not limit their methods of using weapons and they added more to give them an advantage due to their limited numbers. What worked for samurai didn't always work for the ninja due to lacking numbers or their mentality on the battlefield. Just as a samurai would not be found crawling on his belly, the ninja would. Same applies with Kyujutsu skills from my research of the art since 1978. Formally since 1991. Ninja commonly took from other arts to incorporate their own methods of combat and weapons and refined upon it based on their own needs. This is how it changed from Chinese Mongol and Korean to Japanese. Same in archery! As senior masters say, develop the art further, keep to traditional combative methods as WELL, as to incorporate it for modern day defense. Modern practitioners of ninpo train both with traditional and modern weapons and....is part of what Ninpo IS...as taught by Soke Masaaki Hatsum and Shoto Tanemura. Whom of which my videos are dedicated to for they never get caught up in drama. They are too busy training. They never are heard talking negative, but positive heart and mind as seniors of the art of ninpo. These Masters express this to their students world wide .......but FEW follow it or adhere to it. In not doing so, they do not follow the senior master teachers. I wish only more would take after their good manors and etiquette in helping others learn to grow vs hate filled talk and bashing of other fellow martial artists. Especially those of their own art and style? True martial artists are mature minded, humble, respectable and seek to grow mentality, spiritually and physically. Ego is not in their vocabulary. These are the martial artists I respect. And its for the others, I recommend MORE SO the Kyudo. To help clear their mind and calm their spirit down from provoking other fellow martial artists and calling people idiots who can not find the good in what people share, only the negatives. I personally don't have time for politics and drama. I'm too busy training and growing in my own methods of how I am molding the art to fit my own needs to help others defend themselves. SAFETY is ESSENTIAL in training with this weapon. NEVER cross the path of another person while the arrow is drawn with risk of it firing unless for self-defense to protect your life against person or animal. Ninjutsu should never be used for evil intentions against others but to protect country, land, family and self and to fight against the evil intentions of others. Sandayu Momochi IGA ninja Grandmaster.