I’ve been off ninJA for a few weeks after I broke my wrist in a lesson. My return on Tuesday tied in with the new University year, when ninjutsu gets a huge influx of freshers (baby ninJA), and those of us who have been around for a while are able to look at the baby ninJA’s, and use them as a point of reference on how far we’ve come in the last few years of training. Generally we all feel pretty badass.

Obviously as immature ninJA we take every opportunity to increase our badassness in front of the baby ninJA.

WrongninJA is going out of his way to try not to be too camp when they’re looking.

I make sure to drop it into conversation that the reason my wrist is strapped up is that I broke it in a lesson a few weeks ago, but still let the babyninJA practise techniques on it.

My gi (ninJA suit) is badly torn. One of my sleeves was ripped off in a fight a few months ago, the other now is hanging by threads. Whilst the torn off sleeves do give the badass Ryu (Streetfighter 2) look, and having a badly torn gi makes me look a little battle worn and adds to the badass… It’s also tearing across my chest and is in danger of becoming more a tattered rag that I wrap around me than an actual piece of clothing.

Anyway to further my badass, I’ve bought a ninJA training book (link). Which among other things, promises the following:

” This book will teach you how to dissapear, speak with spirits, channel archetypes, improve your sex life, get along with gods, and be your enemy’s worst nightmare-all while working on your own loveable self,"

yay for ninJA!