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Street Ninja: Ancient Secrets for Today's Mean Streets

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A good summary of this book could be offered as this. The book provides you with no specific techniques like the "sport arts" that have been invented within the past hundred years. It does provide lots of diagrams and advice on meditation as well as fighting, and breaking and entering, secrets. It provides a good groundwork and formal arguments for the use of weapons by the "street ninja". This book is written frankly and in a down to earth manner. If you feel your life is in danger, whether it be from gangsters, robbers, thugs, druggies, or think your house bolsters the niches that criminals look for, this book is definitely for you.

Most martial arts today focus on forms(katas etc.), respect and teaching good sportsmanship. All of which are nowhere to be found when someone has to fight for real! This book teaches there's no such thing as "dirty fighting" when your life is in danger. It also teaches versatility and how to use your mind as the greatest of tools. It suggests relaxation, visualisation and meditation exercises which is one of the best aspect of the book. A panicked mind will get you killed where a trained and relaxed mind will easily find the attacker's weaknesses and exploit them. Ninjas have a cheesy reputation because of bad movies but they were very down-to-earth and quick to adapt. Their fighting style reflects this. This is a very good book except for the "burning down the local crackhouse" parts. BUY IT!

This book is for everyone who ever has been a victim or feels they are about to be. Dirk Skinner's book is down to earth and very low key which helps readers understand an get right to the point. It spots and defines the streangths and weaknesses in other martial arts with out making ninjutsu seem "almighty". I highly recommend this book to anyone who is just starting out or adept in self-defense tactics and/or martial arts.Truly a fantastic book!

Wow, this book is great. One thing, this book is all about people getting hit in the private area! They show the steps of elbowing the "private parts", kneeing the "private parts", kicking the "private parts", and biting the "private parts." This book is awesome! Everyone should get it, it is the ancient way of fighting. [ The Ancient Art Of Street Ninja ]
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When I first bought this book, I had some doubts about finding any useful information in it. The cover, as well as the drawings on the inside, is cartoonish, and I think that photographs and a better designed cover would make many more people take this book a little more seriously. I almost didn't buy it because of these factors, but gave it a shot anyway. While this is not the best book on the market on Ninjutsu, you will find some very useful information throughout the pages of Skinner's book.

This is not a book just about techniques, although it diagrams some useful martial arts techniques throughout. The part of this book that I found useful, especially for novice martial artists, was the practical advice on fighting, staying safe, etc. Statements such as:

"Fight the man, don't fight the weapon."

"If an attacker lets you see his knife, he is trying to scare you. If a man is seriously trying to kill you, you will never see the knife coming."

If something feels wrong, it probably is.

These types of common sense street wisdom statements are found throughout this book, and serve as a useful reminder, even to those who already know these things. And while the drawings are a bit odd, they do a decent job demonstrating Skinner's points, which is what he was after anyway. Overall, I enjoyed this book and would recommend it as a part of your martial arts library. It contains many helpful tips and you never know when one of those tips will save your life.

Bohdi Sanders, author of Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior

The delivery on this item arrived much quicker than originally advised - great because there was no interest on my card. This was a gift and the recipient was over the moon with the quality of a "used" book. Will order again for sure.

ts book covers allaspects of ninja, physcology, and realistic self defens techniques. detaied drawings but thereare some stupid immature aspects

You would be better off reading stephen K hayes 5 book series on the ninja. I got this as a gift when I was in jr. high and even then i knew i had read better. Admittedly there is nothing in the diagrams wrong enough to get you killed but i think the whole "off the highway" concept can only be shown in motion. Otherwise your balance will fail you. And no vigilate stuff this book refers to either.

This book provides little help in navigating the mean streets of any cities. Why the author took it upon himself to draw the pictures himself is beyond me. This book is cartoony, and pretty much a waste of money. I regret having bought this book, but what can you do? Instead of buying this, get something on a tangible martial art (not karate or tae kwon do), enter that class, and then work on it. But don't buy this book. Please, don't buy this book.

Ovo je stvarno dobra knjiga koju nazalostnisam procitao :))).Ali kad je procitam cu sigurno da se zacudim kako je neko mogao da napise takvo sranje. Glupost nad glupostima.!!!!Mozda je knjiga i dobra ali ja za nju para nemam,dobra za gubljjne vremena