As always members are encouraged to ask questions and to post them in the thread for the day's lesson where I will reply and post links
Viper asked about Gyokushin Ryu, and the info is on the Ninpo board, on the 9 schools thread:
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ninjustu&action=display&thread=1031
Gyokushin is based on Gyokko Ryu, however it has different tactical applications, and is far more of a definate "Ninja" school than Gyokko Ryu.
A lot of Ninjutsu Shidoshi don't cover much Gyokushin in their training and teaching, but I have always been rather fond of it. And then I did my training well beyond just getting the 5th dan, so have done the schools in some depth over the years.
Similarly I also covered Kumogakure Ryu, the "Batman" school in some depth, and often refer to when body armour was used, and it's modern application.
As you know, Gyokushin Ryu was demonstrated by Tak at Kuno's Kodakan council and the original Kano Jujutsu, which became Judo, contains Gyokushi sutemi, and that includes the entries, albeit with no shuriken and metsubishi.
A lot of Togakure's escaping rat tonko form is seen, at least in part, in Gyokushin.
What Maeda taught the Gracies would have contained Gyokushin strategies.
When you see Royce shoot and enter, using distance and timing, distraction, deception, indirect attack, hiding his intention and his action from his opponent, he is doing a Ninja fighting method, he is doing Ninjutsu.
