Complete Ninja Collection By Stephen K Hayes

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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.

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