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Ninjutsu in depth

Earth: The founding level and energy, which makes Earth the first element.

Water: Can be found in lakes and oceans, Water also heats and can form clouds. Thats why its second.

Fire: The heat from the sun and number 3 element….

Wind: Moves under the influence of heat and can carry a lot, Wind is the 4 element…

Void: Without this element the other ones can not be, it stand for everything potientiale power with no start or end. This is the 5 and highest element….
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Earth Meditation:
When the Ninja was to emotional involved or need more stability, he would use Earth meditation…
Focus on your breathing, breathe slow in and push the stomach completly out (takes around 8 sec.)….
Dont hold you breath, but breathe out again also slow (takes 8 sec.), until you have pressed all air out of your lungs….
While you do this breathing imagine that you are a empty mountain cave and you feel the breathing in the inside of this cave…
You should feel the pressure of this breathing in your stomach area, it might help also to focus on a Earth symbol like you sitting on the top of a mountain….

Earth insight:
Meditate on the bodys weakness like illness, age, death, hunger and so on…..This will give you a better understand of the body and its limits…..

Earth peace of mind:
Meditate over how sometimes things like money, job, car, house and such….Some times becomes so important to some people that they loose them self…..

Water meditation:
When a Ninja feels he to stubborn and needs more adaptability, then he would meditate on Water…..
Focus on your breathing, take a deep breath pressing the stomach completly out, it should take around 8 sec. to breathe in…..
Then with your lungs and stomach filled with air, hold your breath for around 3 sec.
You should feel it press around stomach level…
Breathe out to relax the lungs and ribs, while you turn the presurre to the lower part of adomen. Tense the muscles in the lower part of adomen and breathe out fast with a quick push…..
Hold this position and your breathe for about 3 sec. Before you start to breathe in again….
You could imagine a symbol for Water like you floding around in a bathing ring in a beach near the coast line, where you see and feel the waves….

Water insight:
Meditate over the illusion that comes with feelings and try to think about how the feelings can play tricks on the mind….
Teaches you about the limited ways things can be explained in a logical manner….

Water peace of mind:
Meditate over compassion….
This will break down feeling like anger….

Fire meditation:
When a Ninja feels without energy, is unable to make a decision or feels others are manipulating him, then he would meditate on the fire element…..
Focus on your breathing, let your lung and rib muscles relax. Breathe fast in by pressing the stomach muscles out, it should be in one fast motion. You should feel a pressure behind Solar Plexus. Dont hold you breath, but breathe out by using the muscles around the rib area….
It can help to imagine a symbol of Fire like a fire place in a old blacksmith and you are blowing on the fire place making the flames higher and higher…..

Fire insight:
Meditate over the minds toughts, how old ideas that was ones true, become new ideas, stress and the mental process…
Teaches you about the mind….

Fire peace of mind:
Meditate over the effect and corse of ignorance….
To Teach the mind about Ignorance…..

Wind meditation:
When a Ninja feels emotional controled or lacking compassion, he would meditate on Wind….
Focus on your breath, relax your lung and rib muscles….
Take a deep breath by pressing the stomach out and filling your lungs…..Hold your breath for about 3 sec. while you feel the pressure in your chest…..

Breathe slowly out using your rib muscle and pressing up and inwards with the stomach muscle, this should take around 10 sec.
It helps using a symbol of wind like you standing between the trees in a big forrest, where the wind is blowing and you feel it…..

Wind insight:
Meditate over how little “You” are in the big picture, like the worlds historie, the universe and so on……
Consider what problems like personal issues, victories and such means compare to it all….

Wind peace of mind:
Meditate over the different cultures in the world and the many ways of doing things…..
Teaches you about the value of different oppions….

Void meditation:
Imagine that you are in the future looking back at you right now, work on being able to see your self from the eyes from the person you like to be in the future….
Use this as a part of you Goal Setting and Power Sentences…..

Void insight:
Meditate over the ability to look into the future….

Void peace of mind:
Meditate over the breathing as a way to expand the mind…..

KAMAE

Shizen no Kamae (Earth): Stand relaxed and safe, from here you can move in any direction….
Neutral attitude
(We start all our defences in this position, since its most likely to look like how you would stand on the Street).

Ichimonji no Kamae (Water): This is a way to lure the opponent a little to far out…..
Defensive attitude

Jumonji no Kamae (Fire): A way to press your opponent that forces him to react and so his true color….
Aggressive attitude
(We use the Villasin Style Combat Stance as our Fire stand).

Hira no Kamae (Wind): A attitude from which true Ukemi can be trained….
Reciving attitude

Hicho no Kamae (Earth and Wind): Flying from battle, the stability is larger then the opponent thinks. This position can also be used as a quick way to get balance to your mind. Because you cant stand on one leg, if your mind is out of balance (focus). (it can also be used as a block against low kicks).

Doko no Kamae (Water and Fire): A position that puts pressure on the opponent, because it shows aggressive attitude (Fire) by the fist, but is still defensive (Water) also, when you look at the stand…

Kosei no Kamae (Vind and Fire): Tricks the opponent to think you are open, when in fact its a set up…..

Remember the positions (Kamaes) would in real combat get smaller and they are like pictures of bodymovement during a fight not static and dead, but they should be used during sparring and with aliveness…..
The reason we start we training them large is its safe for the beginnig student, trains the muscles and the subcon./body to remember your movement correct…

We also try to hide the technique in Ninjutsu, so the opponent wont know what happen or even if you did know Martial Arts afterwards…..
Some of the best techniques are those the opponent, never see comming so always have a “secret weapon”…….

Originally posted 2009-09-05 10:10:31. Republished by Blog Post Promoter