Judging the Bujinkan from outside

Following on from another thread

Many folk posting on this forum don't train in the Buj. They, understandably, form their opinion of the art from YouTube, previous experience at XYZ dojo, the quirky conversations on MAP and so on

Unfortunately the Buj suffers from being associated with the wanna be ninjers with all their back flipping and poking people in the eye. Whilst mostly these folk have nothing to do with the Buj, we tend to get lumped into the same mental category because of the Nword

The Buj content on YouTube is either demos from the Japanese (which has its much discussed issues) or westerners who, for a variety of reasons haven't invested the time & focus to make the art work

So I'd like to put myself up as a respresentative of the average, sincerely training dojo outside of Japan. I'm not a well known person in the org and I train in the same way as the silent majority in the art. Hopefully I can be seen as a more accurate benchmark than those used for most of the discussion here

I've put up many clips of training in my class (no editing, just clips of the drills), they are all here - http://ift.tt/2b8thWv

I visited the MAP meet and took a session. Several of my club also attended and even sparred with a few folk

So if you don't train in the xkans please have a look at the content here, if you met us at the MAP meet please share your perspective

I'm totally OK with receiving blunt criticism (it'll make me better) and I promise to do my best to share my understanding of the art as long as the contributors are scincere in their desire to assess the validity of the art