Traditional Ninja Weapons (Unique Literary Books of the World)

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Summary: Weapons... we've got weapons!
Review: Flexiable Weapons, Surprise Weapons, Battlefield Weapons, Blade and Chain Weapons, Impact Weapons... this book gives the reader a sense of the depth that a modern day ninja's weapons training curriculum can provide. Martial Artists and ninja students, how else can we hope to defend our-selves against weapons without first having an accurate knowledge of how they are applied. This book is excellent!

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Summary: He could do better!
Review: This is a very interesting book about the Japanese Ninja but it is also not a very good book. The photos are blurry at the best of times making instruction hard to follow. Also some of the topics covered are scantly reviewed. But the good point is that there is a lot of interesting reading here and for traditional ninjutsu fans it would be a good buy. Everybody else avoid it. This was one of the first books that I ever bought at a very tender age of 10. At the time I was going through Ninja madness. A martial artist of Charles Daniel's ability and knowledge can do better.

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Summary: Cheesy, like Velveeta!
Review: What I was looking for was a summary of traditional weapons historically by Japanese warriors- you know, like these are the types of weapons, they were used by this group of people, during this era, ect. Instead, what arrived in the mail was a rather tabloid-y book with a loud cover of some Hollywood "Ninjas" in fighter stance and the banner "secrets revealed!" streaming across the top. The inside consisted of a bunch of fuzzy photographs obviously taken in someone's backyard of a couple of ordinary looking white guys play fighting. This is the bulk of the book. Few words, and fuzzy photographs. If I picked this off of a shelf in a conventional bookstore, I never would have bought it. The few paragraphs worth of information it does give in the entire book are interesting (and are the reason I'll give this book two stars as opposed to the one star I really think it's worth), but sadly not enough to make the purchase of this book worthwhile. Choose a different title. You'll be happier.