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Summary: Ninja Camp, YAY! Where's the Pool?
Comment: Bring the sterno, pup tent, bug repellent and black ski mask, it's ninja camp time! Written by an anonymous individual with a style eerily similar, nay, virtually identical to that of neo-ninja extraordinaire Radford Davis (who prefers the multicultural nom-de-plume Ashida Kim for PC reasons), a complete guide to what it is like to dress up in black or camoflague and prance about the woods in an effort to re-enact the deeds of the Ancient Ninja of Old Japan. The author mixes in a lot of kung fu mythology and modern kenpo techniques in for kicks (cheezy pun intended), along with some materials [...], borrowed from Stephen K Hayes ninja books. He doesn't seem to know much about the actual history of either Japan or Ninja, but if you enjoy seeing grown men dressed up as ninjas and striking stealthy poses in wide open spaces, this is the book for you!
Author Radford Davis is one of the fewer than 600 American men who, as teens, managed to find authentic secret ninja teachers here in the United States. Apparently during the late 1970's and '80's hundreds of Ninja from the Koga district of Japan flooded the United States to try out for parts in various ninja films and television programs. Hollywood being as cutthroat as it is (and was then, let me tell you!), most of these Ninja had to go out and take non-ninja jobs while waiting for calls from their agents which, sadly, never came. Imagine if you will the ninja fast-food worker, the ninja landscaper, the ninja janitor, the ninja waiter. It couldn't have been easy!
Thankfully, a good number of these undocumented Ninja immigrants were able to find work as Secret Teachers to teenage boys, who they carefully groomed as their protegees. As with Radford Davis's Secret Teacher, they eventually disapeared when their youthful charge has mastered the elements of ninja-craft. In true ninja fashion, to date none of these Secret Teachers have left a trace, not a photograph, not a document...no change of address on file with the post office. It's secret stuff this ninja business,I tell you! Many of the authentic Koga Ninja techniques are artfully disguised as modern kenpo, and much of the theory presented here is surprisingly in line with that taught by Stephen K Hayes. This in and of itself screams, "authenticity!". It is not known what became of Radford Davis's teacher. Only 2 stars because he's exposed the secrets of the ninja, which will undoubtedly impact the market (again) and put a whole lot of Koga Ninja out of work and back behind the counter of venues as vaunted as the McDonald's and The Krusty Krab (move over Spongebob-O!). Who needs a secret teacher after all, when you can learn to be a ninja from a book?
Happy Stealthing! ;)
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Summary: ONLY FOR THE ADEQUATELY PREPARED.
Comment: There are several different types of people that read these kinds of books. First, the impressionable young one, whose desire to become a ninja was founded after repeated viewings of the feature film "3 Ninjas." The latter are highly trained professionals, skilled in multiple styles of martial arts, dedicated, secretive, and destructive. For the former, this book will do one of two things: It will bore them, or crush their frail intellect. For the battle hardened master, this book will impart much wisdom, wisdom of the sword and wisdom of the mind head. Your really should only buy this if you are already a ninja, or just a lay person capable of the delivery of cool looking death bringing special moves.
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Summary: How to become a ninja
Comment: I don't think that you will become a ninja just reading tihs book
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Summary: This book was horrible
Comment: this book was an absolute ripoff. anyone who has this book was definately ripped off. i doubt ashida kim as any experience at all in martial arts. all his books stink and this one does the most.
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Summary: No as "camp" as some!
Comment: Well what can I say? This is an interesting read. Basically a monologue of an unidentified participant at an Ashida Kim ninja training camp. Survival skills and ambushes are covered along with some empty hand and gun defences. I would say though that if you were not a fan of Ashida Kim then I would not bother. It either adds to his myth or his legend. It depends on our view of him. You either love him or hate him!
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