Sonny Chiba Lives!

Martial Media, Culture and Other Arts Martial Media and Popular Culture
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Street Fighter clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPjnSMVkXLA&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7QJEDwa7iw&NR

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rock on!

what style of “_______” was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the ‘internal’ shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.

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[QUOTE=Oso;733200]rock on!

what style of “_______” was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the ‘internal’ shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.[/QUOTE]

It’s “Street fighting” style.

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ok, well, i thought there was some tie in with a real karate style.

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Found this on Wiki.

In addition to his acting ability, Chiba also has blackbelts in the following martial arts:

* Ninjutsu—Fourth Dan
* Karate Goju—Second Dan
* Judo—Second Dan
* Kendo—First Dan
* Shorinji Kempo—First Dan
* Kyokushin—First Dan
* Japan Action Club (JAC)—Founder
      o This organization aims to develop and raise the level of martial arts techniques and sequences used in Japanese film and television.
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  • Ninjutsu—Fourth Dan

aww, ******…

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Oh yeah, Sonny is a ninja. The man’s coolness has no limits.

Looks like his initial karate training was under Mas Oyama. Not a bad start.

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yea, Oyama would be a good start.

but, why, oh why, did he have to sully it with neenja training???

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Because, being a ninja is the shiznitz.

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[QUOTE=Oso;733200]rock on!

what style of “_______” was he supposed to be anyway?

I always like the ‘internal’ shots of him breaking bones and ripping hearts out and ****.[/QUOTE]

i think in the movies it was actually suppose to be a cross between japanese karate and chinese kung fu. if i have my chiba series right anyway.

he is a half breed by story line. I think thats the street fighters story, havent watched any of em in a while though.

sonny chiba is fresh.

i would have loved to watch him fight bruce lee in real life…i would put my dollar on chiba

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[QUOTE=Oso;733371]yea, Oyama would be a good start.

but, why, oh why, did he have to sully it with neenja training???[/QUOTE]

Because karate is actually Okinawan, from China, and not even Japanese. What they call ‘ninjitsu’ actually comes from ryus of jujitsu and taijitsu. There’s only a few that are actually what most people think of as ‘ninjitsu’ (concealment, certain weapons and all that).

Oh, and the Ninjitsu dark costumes are B.S. that was designed out of the Kabuki cinema. They had people who wore dark costumes to move the props around between acts, and when they started portraying ‘Ninja’ on the screen, they used those costumes. It’s total B.S.

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ninja would wear dark clothing. sometimes red. or get thier clothing wet before a known battle if possible.

to hide blood from any wounds they may have.

they sometimes also carried small boxes with holes in them that housed crickets. for sneaking around outside at night.

the sashes they would wear would often be of an extreme length near 10 feet or more, to be able to create a small hammick of sorts in trees for extended recon…or to tie yourself to a tree for dozing off.

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[QUOTE=PangQuan;733746]ninja would wear dark clothing. sometimes red. or get thier clothing wet before a known battle if possible.

to hide blood from any wounds they may have.

they sometimes also carried small boxes with holes in them that housed crickets. for sneaking around outside at night.

the sashes they would wear would often be of an extreme length near 10 feet or more, to be able to create a small hammick of sorts in trees for extended recon…or to tie yourself to a tree for dozing off.[/QUOTE]

Supposedly they usually wore common villagers clothes to not be noticed, and when on ‘missions’ in the palace or whatever they would wear clothes of the enemy, once again, to blend in and not be noticed.

But who knows. There’s supposed to be a Chinese counterpart to the Japanese ‘ninja’, but I can’t seem to find much info about it anywhere.

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Ah nevermind, I wont even worry about it.

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[QUOTE=PangQuan;733737]i think in the movies it was actually suppose to be a cross between japanese karate and chinese kung fu. if i have my chiba series right anyway.[/QUOTE]
The style I usually see listed is Kyokushin but you can find Goju Ryu Kata and techniques in there, which makes sense because Kyokushin draws upon Goju Ryu. If the wikipedia Sonny Chiba article is true (it says he is a first Dan in Kyokushin and a second Dan in Goju Ryu). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Chiba

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ya, chiba is pretty learned in the ol’ arts…

the story line behind street fighter is actually da bomb. if remember correctly, the style, that is in the story line ( not to be confused with any real styles, as they were trying to “make one up” for his character) chiba is the only one that knows said style as his dad died and left his legacy to “terry”

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[QUOTE=lunghushan;733753]Supposedly they usually wore common villagers clothes to not be noticed, and when on ‘missions’ in the palace or whatever they would wear clothes of the enemy, once again, to blend in and not be noticed.

But who knows. There’s supposed to be a Chinese counterpart to the Japanese ‘ninja’, but I can’t seem to find much info about it anywhere.[/QUOTE]

that would supposedly be the ‘vagabonds’ and vagabond style kung fu. if “The Skills of the Vagabonds” by Leung Ting is to be believed, a Hakka style in origin.

and THAT is why Ninjas SuckSIZE=“1”[/SIZE]

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Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas?

Wait for it…

Exactly!

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[QUOTE=Lama Pai Sifu;733842]Have you guys ever heard of Chinese Ninjas?

Wait for it…

Exactly![/QUOTE]

only because they are so much better than japanese ninjas.

i mean, they have 10x the cooler name: Vagabonds.

Totally hot name.

I mean…c’mon

ninjas

???

wtf is cool about that name?

besides, I have the shirt that proves ninjas suck.

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That doesn’t make much sense though because vagabond is just another name for hakka (wanderer).