Ninja Skills: The Authentic Ninja Training Manual

This unbelievable collection of ninja knowleged is a must have for any shinobi enthusiasts, hostric researcher, experimental archeologist, people practicing living history or anyone who loves cool stuff from history! Beautifully photographed, layed out and desinged with impecable taste, this book is an addictive read. Organized into 14 major divisons of 150 lessons, this book provides the perfect lesson plan for hundereds of hours of self and team development opportunities for practical analysis and presonal observation. Jam packed with exciting photos of the author in action and teaming with historic drawings from the worlds best collection of ninja scrolls, this book is truely a visual journey as well as a written one!

This book is a must for any serious student or enthusiast of Historical Ninjutsu. This is sure to become an indispensable resource and quick reference for studying the legitimate techniques of the historical shinobi (ninja). Drawing from a wide pool of extant historical documents recorded by the ninja themselves, this book breaks down many of the individual skills into easily digestible individual lessons which are perfect for the modern reader. Whether a hardcore historian, experimental archæologist, or armchair enthusiast this book makes the information from the historical record easy to access for reference, personal practice, etc. The layout and format places like skillsets together with others of the same type (i.e. - Climbing Skills, Defensive Skills, etc.) making it simple and easy to reference, compare and contrast skills from a wide scope of historical sources in one easy to navigate volume! Given the expansiveness of historical information from which this material is drawn, I can only hope that this volume will be the first in a series of many more like it!

A complete informative book on the subject of ninjas

An outstanding resource for those who are interested in authentic, historical ninjutsu teachings. Cummins has created something unique: an English compendium of ninja skills taken directly from the historical ninjutsu scrolls. Cummins categorizes the skills nicely, showing the wide range of knowledge the ninja were expected to have. If you think the historical ninja were only about sneaking around in the dark, climbing walls and killing people, think again! There are two things to keep in mind with this book: 1) There is little detail provided about many of the skills. Cummins just describes them generally, without telling you how to actually do them. This may be the way the original scrolls were written, or he may have omitted the details. But if you're looking for a detailed instruction manual, you will be disappointed. 2) Cummins is a scholar who is only interested in historical ninjutsu. Many of these skills make no sense in the modern world and are of little use. If you want to start some kind of ninja historical re-enactment group this is a great book; if you're looking for things you can apply to shadow work today, there is a lot of filler.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this excellent book by Antony Cummins! It is structured in an easy-to-follow format that is pleasing to read as well as loaded with great images. The historic texts that Ninja Skills draws from are legitimate sources of information written by those that put these principles into practice long ago. This book provides a great resource for folks that have interest in studying genuine shinobi no jutsu, unlike the modern fabricated martial arts versions that have saturated and mislead the world over the last few decades. This will serve as an on-going source of study and research for me and I will highly recommend it to others! I am very pleased with this true representation of the skills of the ninja!

Its mostly concepts & illustrations of ninja tools. It doesnt tell you how to become a ninja. It tells you ideas about what is a ninja. Its like reading a book on weight training concepts/philosophy/ideas, but it doesnt give you any program to follow or direct ideas of what you need to practice daily.

I have collected knowledge of this art.Great knowledge on this subject.

This book is AWESOME!!!! Is really really interesting and a book "Know how", like a instructive Manual of real Ninjutsu based in several historical manual (Shoninki, Bansenshukai, Ninpiden). Easy to read, to understand, step by step and very well organized by chapters and every different skill. I recommend highly this Manual, the work of Mr. Antony Cummins is very invaluable, is a treasure to serious researchers, martial artists or just people interested in the real and historical Ninja. This is an authentic manual of Ninja Training.

short and sweet !!!

This is a great book for anyone interested in Shinobi no mono and for starting out on learning/researching into Shinobi no jutsu.If you need or just want one book to explain what Shinobi no jutsu is then this is the book for you. It is a concentrated little book full of information from the Bansenshukai,Ninpiden and the shoninki. Covering the basics of infiltrating,escaping,Night attacks and so much more. Written in a simple and easy way to follow.

This is the book to own if interested in authentic ninja skills! Doesn’t matter if you’re an enthusiast or just curious, there’s so much information Packed in this book that you can’t go wrong.

I use for my personal development 😁

The book itself is designed quite good. But nevertheless you often just scratch on the surface. I personally would have liked to read more practical exercises and hints. Especially for the guys training ninjutsu like me more tactics and techniques would have been helpful.