Shaman wrote:Ninjutsu's the most terrifying of all the martial arts without a doubt.
A common-enough misconception. Martial arts and hand-to-hand combat systems (just to include the more recent developments like Krav Maga, Sistema[1] and Samobor) are like programming languages. Regardless of which one you use, once you know enough of it, you can do anything. For the most part, all they differ in is the point in the teaching at which students are first taught how to dislocate shoulders, break collar bones, cave in windpipes, penetrate skulls at the temple and, everyone's favourite, jump backwards from the courtyard of a temple onto the edge of the roof two stories above...
[1] Descended from the fighting techniques of the medieval Russian knights? Pig's arse. It was developed by Soviet army officers who were sent to Japan to supplement their boxing and wrestling with judo and jujutsu.