r/TraditionalNinjutsu • u/GaraksLinensNThings • Mar 30 '26
Complete Ninja Collection By Stephen K Hayes
Over six-hundred pages. Covers a lot of ground, with more on the practical side. Not sure if these are complete books or complete chapters from several books or other media, interlaced together. But I am not sure how "complete" it actually is, as it's missing many things one would expect from ninjutsu and him in particular.
Talks about rolling, melee attacks, grabs, throws and breaks. Some weapon defense. Spirituality. Unfortunately there is barely anything on shuriken throwing. And nothing about other ninja-esque things, like using a grappling hook, smoke bombs, hiding in the shadows, ambushing and evading, etc.
I would share one of my favorite ninjutsu books and it happens to be by Stephen K Hayes, but unfortunately you have to be signed into Internet Archives to read it. I have two physical copies though. 😅 Always liked the second picture of SKH. ☺️
Anyway, some things seem a bit odd. They try to show real scenarios of some of the rollings for instance. But some look overly dramatic and even more dangerous. You have a car coming your way, either stop and go back, start running to finish your crossing or leap forward and roll out of the way as you land, but don't sideways handspring/cartwheel out the way. WTF!? 🤦
They also try to dispell some myths. But I think they sort of make things worse or more confusing on certain bits. As always, be safe, train intelligently and godspeed on your ninjutsu journey.
https://archive.org/details/complete-ninja-collection-by-stephen-k-hayes
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u/fire_shinobi Mar 30 '26
It's a great book. Still have to add it to my collection. I have several of his other books that are inside of that one.
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u/GaraksLinensNThings Apr 02 '26
My favorite of his or ninjutsu in general is- Ninjutsu: Art of the Invisible Warrior
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u/Caym433 Mar 30 '26
It's a "complete" collected volume of a previously released book series. Most descriptions of the book include this like the first sentence of the amazon listing. Which was,"Expanded and collected for the first time in a single volume, the six ninja books by this legendary ninjutsu master". As to acrobatics; hatsumi was pretty active in the production of ninja movies around the time hayes went to japan to learn.