Old Bujinkan Waza

king of LARPers!

Lets see, as already pointed out, the Samurai's armour was much more versatile, and allow plenty of movement, whereas a knights armour allowed barely any move. Watch some demo's of a knight using a sword and look how he has to use it. If a knight were to fight a samurai, the Samurai would win 95% of the time.

Not true. 10 years ago or so, the History Channel had an expert dress in authentic medieval European full plate armor and he was impressed with how mobile he was. He had no problem doing handsprings and cartwheels, etc. The big difference is that European martial arts died out as they accepted new technologies like guns. So when you watch a demo today of a knight using a sword, you are watching a play actor who is ignorant of how to use the arms.

i think it'd be a good matchup to see the two square off but to say that the knight would lose 95% of the time is a little much don't you think? and a knight in a set of plate mail is almost immune to piercing attacks(yumi or the katana), the chainmail underneath would prevent any major slashing attacks (katana or naginata). i agree the knights visibility with the helmet sucks, but every tool the knight carries is a one shot one kill, except for the broad sword. that might kill multiple foes.

the training in japan was not conducted in this idealistic outdoor way but in the rather more down to earth tokyo budokan in ayase also foreigners outnumbered japanese, also the 5th dan test at 0:58 is not done with a real sword anymore I doubt it ever was...

yeah but you can cleary see that hatsumi stopped the sword
his student wasn't fast enough

This is a demo video...not the real thing

Hells bells

a bujinkan guy tim peterson gave it to me and it might have been sold as ninja: night warriors. but i only remember a kanji title in the beginning.