Ninjutsu is a system of self-defence created and used by Ninjas in Japan some 300 years ago. The techniques in Ninjutsu are based on being silent and quick. The Ninja wears a black gi (training suite) and cover his or her face with a piece of cloth. They also wear boots, made to walk silently in the dark. There is no competition in Ninjutsu.

Ninjutsu is probably one of the most mythical Martial Arts, but it is no stranger or mystical than Karate, Judo or any other Martial Art.

Ninjutsu is based on techniques from the ancient Martial Art of Taijutsu whose origins date back well over 1,000 years ago. Ninjutsu was a system that was designed to be able to defeat the system of self-defence that the samurai was using. Ninjas, as the Ninjutsu practitioners are called, was often hired to take back something that had been stolen or someone who was held prisoner somewhere. The Ninjas was also used to assassinate different people that opposed a threat to the employer or his family.

The Ninja did not only study Ninjutsu, but also how to use poison, how to walk silently across a floor, how to find things to eat in the forest and how to prepare an attack so that the victim of the attack never got the chance to understand what happened before he fell dead to the ground. Ninjas are perhaps most famous for their weapons, for example the Shuriken - a star-shaped piece of metal that you throw at your enemy, or the kama - a wooden stick with a razor-sharp blade in the far end making it look like a pick.