Ari is absolutely correct. I'd evaluate from the top (shidoshi) on down and look for the common traits in the areas of personality, technical ability and connection to Soke/training with their teacher. Every shidoshi will have a unique combination of the three, with varying degrees of emphasis reflected in how they run their classes.

True enough - but as long as you are able to teach others from 5.dan, there is a polution in the teaching if the instructor have not done the homework. And being a good human being does not make the instruction more right, does it?
Hence, over-grading leads to polution IMO.
And I am all for enviromental Green-jutsu...

Yes, but if you do not know the art, polish the basics and get to the depth of it - what makes what you do Bujinkan?

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bufuikan wrote:
Syd this may interpreted differently that what was intended.....

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The Bujinkan is like the internet. (or is it the other way around?). Everyone is a superstar regardless of what they actually know. You see the results... ;)



The question that each person should be asking at least in my opinion is…. "What am I doing to contribute in a positive way to my training, organization and the art".

If each person spends enough time practicing and polishing the basics then one day we may earn the rank bestowed on us….. There will always be black, white and grey in everything we do in life. Focus on your training family friends and teachers everything else is trivial.




I could be wrong, but I think the point of Syd's post was that very, very few people in the Bujinkan seem to be interested in "practicing and polishing the basics".

They only seem to be interested in being a superstar.


- Mark Spada

The Bujinkan is like the internet. (or is it the other way around?). Everyone is a superstar regardless of what they actually know. You see the results... ;)