Today was ugly outside, after working a bit i went to Chinatown with Crisis to pick up a wooden ninjaken (I know, I know the ninjaken's authenticity blah blah, it was to experience the difference with a shorter sword, and possibly experiment with two swords style). They were sold out at the place I usually go to and some other places in the area that we checked, they had a few short bokken but no ninjaken.
In other news, I recently got jumped by around 13 guys in a park, people came up to us started talking nonsense, we started leaving and got blind sided (we is me and a male friend, the girls are all fine), after fighting for a while the guys ran off when they saw that the cops were on their way. I'm ok (had some face swelling and blood in my mouth but now I'm good), but my friend's jaw broke (he'd had surgery done on it before and I guess it's fragile). I learned from it I guess...
I wanna to plan more ninja trainings for BSC, I'll probably focus on hiding and sentry removal. I also want to develop the skills of the ninja no hachimon (8 ninja gates) so that I could have a "legit" ninjutsu ryu, not sure where I'll pick up on spear fighting and all that but I'll see, Cipher might know some stuff.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Kenjutsu and Choreographed fights
Today the day started with kenjutsu in the park with Ken, I learned a fair bit about parrying and riposting with the katana. Almost broke the tsuba on the sword, once it's broken I'll take it off the bokken. After some training in the park (we did some empty hand stuff on the side), we met up with Crisis and some other friends.
We moved to a parkour spot and jumped around a bit. After jumping around Crisis and a friend decided to choreograph a sword fight with my and Ken's bokken. We moved to a playground, where they finished their choreography with a bit of input from me and Ken. It looked great. I decided to try it out, me and Crisis did a short parkour chase/street fight martial arts choreography. Needless to say little kids loved it, watching us go at it with swords, jump over stuff and pretend to beat each others faces in.
All in all a good day and a great learning experience in fight choreography and swordsmanship.
We moved to a parkour spot and jumped around a bit. After jumping around Crisis and a friend decided to choreograph a sword fight with my and Ken's bokken. We moved to a playground, where they finished their choreography with a bit of input from me and Ken. It looked great. I decided to try it out, me and Crisis did a short parkour chase/street fight martial arts choreography. Needless to say little kids loved it, watching us go at it with swords, jump over stuff and pretend to beat each others faces in.
All in all a good day and a great learning experience in fight choreography and swordsmanship.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Ninja Training: Stealth and Movement
Today I ran a ninja training session, we focused on conditioning movement and stealth. After training parkour again with NYPK and UVPK I realized how important it is to condition.
Crisis, and Cipher showed up. I invited Ken but he didn't show (I never expect him to, he's unreliable). Here's a basic over view of what we did:
Stretch/warm up
Rolling (On grass)
Jumping
Walking/Running
Dealing with walls, rails and fences
Low Movement
some other stuff.
Cipher needs to work on forward rolls, he has excellent side rolls, but his front rolls are "sideways side rolls". Other than that it went pretty smoothly. I hope to do one again. We didn't get to rolling on cement for conditioning, but it'll happen next training.
Crisis, and Cipher showed up. I invited Ken but he didn't show (I never expect him to, he's unreliable). Here's a basic over view of what we did:
Stretch/warm up
Rolling (On grass)
Jumping
Walking/Running
Dealing with walls, rails and fences
Low Movement
some other stuff.
Cipher needs to work on forward rolls, he has excellent side rolls, but his front rolls are "sideways side rolls". Other than that it went pretty smoothly. I hope to do one again. We didn't get to rolling on cement for conditioning, but it'll happen next training.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Parkour Conditioning
Yesterday I was supposed to hang with some new friends but they didn't call and I slept in. I ended up going to parkour conditioning in the the city. Was a great time.
The first half was just everyone (a bunch of us) messing around at the playground and the rocks in in Central, wallruns, cats, tic tacs some vaulting. Met a bunch of traceurs and freerunners and martial artists that I never saw before, which means I clearly need to get out and train with everyone instead of just me and Crisis.
The second half was conditioning led by Sha and Pyro (they're traceurs who've been at it a while and are cut and buff respectively). It was intense by most peoples standards. I was tired at the end but not too sore, I want to go to these more often to have good conditioning for the entire body which a bigger part of parkour than I realized before. Some stuff we did were inchworms, QMing stairs, QM push ups, kong throughs and a bunch of other stuff.
At one point before the conditioning I learned a bit of drunken boxing from this guy, but I don't remember too much, it seems to strange and elaborate to be very effective in terms of technique unless you condition the hands and wrists and practice the movements a ton, but it's a type of Kung Fu so I shouldn't expect anything less.
The first half was just everyone (a bunch of us) messing around at the playground and the rocks in in Central, wallruns, cats, tic tacs some vaulting. Met a bunch of traceurs and freerunners and martial artists that I never saw before, which means I clearly need to get out and train with everyone instead of just me and Crisis.
The second half was conditioning led by Sha and Pyro (they're traceurs who've been at it a while and are cut and buff respectively). It was intense by most peoples standards. I was tired at the end but not too sore, I want to go to these more often to have good conditioning for the entire body which a bigger part of parkour than I realized before. Some stuff we did were inchworms, QMing stairs, QM push ups, kong throughs and a bunch of other stuff.
At one point before the conditioning I learned a bit of drunken boxing from this guy, but I don't remember too much, it seems to strange and elaborate to be very effective in terms of technique unless you condition the hands and wrists and practice the movements a ton, but it's a type of Kung Fu so I shouldn't expect anything less.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
White Water Rafting
About two days ago I went white water rafting with a group of people I didn't know plus Crisis and a non-ninja friend. Was a ton of fun, not the most ninja thing ever but I learned some anyway. I feel more comfortable in small boats in terms of steering and general maneuvering even when the water is shallow and rocky.
I learned how to deal with falling into rapids, here's how it's done: as soon as you fall in get on your back and float down feet first with the legs slightly bend to absorb any shock from rocks. Also it's important to be aware of currents, deeper water supposedly has strong current in rivers.
Overall a great time and a bit of a learning experience on the side.
I learned how to deal with falling into rapids, here's how it's done: as soon as you fall in get on your back and float down feet first with the legs slightly bend to absorb any shock from rocks. Also it's important to be aware of currents, deeper water supposedly has strong current in rivers.
Overall a great time and a bit of a learning experience on the side.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Smoke Bomb
I'm adding this recipe to the repertoire of BSC Kajutsu (fire, explosives etc)I made it after nabbing a ping pong ball from some beer pong people. It's really simple and makes a decent amount of smoke I plan on altering the formula to get more smoke out of it. Here's how you make it (if you've ever done research on how to make a smoke bomb you've probably come across this):
Ingredients:
Tin or Aluminum foil
Match Heads
Ping pong ball
Poke a hold in the ping pong ball (the hole I made was around the size of the butt of a pen).
Placing your finger on the hole wrap the foil around the ball and your finger so that there is a stem where your finger was.
Drop some match heads into the stem so that they fall into the hole in the ping pong ball (the hole and the stem should be lined up). I used around 6 match heads.
To add more smoke cut up ping pong balls and add them into the first ball with the match heads.
***
While holding the stem heat the bottom of the bulb with a flame until white smoke comes from the stem, keep the flame on for a few more seconds.
Throw, drop, deploy in which ever way you please.
Be aware that the smoke is probably toxic because it's from plastic so avoid breathing any in, it's probably bad for your lungs.
Ingredients:
Tin or Aluminum foil
Match Heads
Ping pong ball
Poke a hold in the ping pong ball (the hole I made was around the size of the butt of a pen).
Placing your finger on the hole wrap the foil around the ball and your finger so that there is a stem where your finger was.
Drop some match heads into the stem so that they fall into the hole in the ping pong ball (the hole and the stem should be lined up). I used around 6 match heads.
To add more smoke cut up ping pong balls and add them into the first ball with the match heads.
***
While holding the stem heat the bottom of the bulb with a flame until white smoke comes from the stem, keep the flame on for a few more seconds.
Throw, drop, deploy in which ever way you please.
Be aware that the smoke is probably toxic because it's from plastic so avoid breathing any in, it's probably bad for your lungs.
Summer Roofing 1
I figure I'm gonna be roofing all the time this summer and unless something particularly crazy happens to distinguish a roofing op I'll just use a generic name.
This one was me and Crisis, we were walking around at like 2 in the morning and we saw a yard with a fire escape.
Gear:
me-
Green open (zipperless) hoody
Red sleeveless shirt
Brown cargo pants
Black sneakers
Crisis-
Grey t-shirt
Jeans
Grey converse
We climbed over a spiked fence into the yard and realized we were really exposed, I sat on the bench in the yard social stealth style while a guy walked by. After he passed us we realized how exposed the entire area was (including our fire escape route), so we moved towards a gate in the back of the yard, Crisis opened it quietly and we passed through it, we were in a small alley between a building and a yard.
We move through the yard slowly because the ground there is really loud (covered in some white stuff *shrugs*), and grab onto the bottom of a fire escape and make our way up. We get up pretty quick because most of the windows are dark. On our way up we caught a couple watching South Park and a guy sleeping with the lights on. Once we got to the roof we took a few minute to admire the view and then climbed up a rooflet and hung there for a bit. We heard a weird noise coming from a chimney and listened but realized it must be either mechanical or an animal because it wasn't the kind of noise a person could make (kind of a flexible metal bending sound).
We moved along the roofs up the block until we go to our last roof, this one was separated from the one were standing on by some metal divider that was ankle high but really malleable and loud, Crisis jumped over it and rolled on the roof (too loud by my standards) I took the slow route and went feet first with a lot of arm support to keep quiet. Once there Crisis tests a door and finds it to be open. Later we decided not to go in because of our lack of equipment (no masks, no gloves etc...).
We headed back to the first yard after hanging out in some random lawn chairs. Got out uneventfully after catching some more of South Park.
Crisis tells me about a huge warehouse nearby, sounds like a good op, we're waiting for Cipher to get back then we'll check it out.
Lessons learned:
Don't jump and roll on roofs
Be prepared to go from plain roofing to indoor ops in terms of equipment.
This one was me and Crisis, we were walking around at like 2 in the morning and we saw a yard with a fire escape.
Gear:
me-
Green open (zipperless) hoody
Red sleeveless shirt
Brown cargo pants
Black sneakers
Crisis-
Grey t-shirt
Jeans
Grey converse
We climbed over a spiked fence into the yard and realized we were really exposed, I sat on the bench in the yard social stealth style while a guy walked by. After he passed us we realized how exposed the entire area was (including our fire escape route), so we moved towards a gate in the back of the yard, Crisis opened it quietly and we passed through it, we were in a small alley between a building and a yard.
We move through the yard slowly because the ground there is really loud (covered in some white stuff *shrugs*), and grab onto the bottom of a fire escape and make our way up. We get up pretty quick because most of the windows are dark. On our way up we caught a couple watching South Park and a guy sleeping with the lights on. Once we got to the roof we took a few minute to admire the view and then climbed up a rooflet and hung there for a bit. We heard a weird noise coming from a chimney and listened but realized it must be either mechanical or an animal because it wasn't the kind of noise a person could make (kind of a flexible metal bending sound).
We moved along the roofs up the block until we go to our last roof, this one was separated from the one were standing on by some metal divider that was ankle high but really malleable and loud, Crisis jumped over it and rolled on the roof (too loud by my standards) I took the slow route and went feet first with a lot of arm support to keep quiet. Once there Crisis tests a door and finds it to be open. Later we decided not to go in because of our lack of equipment (no masks, no gloves etc...).
We headed back to the first yard after hanging out in some random lawn chairs. Got out uneventfully after catching some more of South Park.
Crisis tells me about a huge warehouse nearby, sounds like a good op, we're waiting for Cipher to get back then we'll check it out.
Lessons learned:
Don't jump and roll on roofs
Be prepared to go from plain roofing to indoor ops in terms of equipment.
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