Young child prepare for the future by training him, in fact, still in the cradle: it rocked so hard that it hits sides of the wall, and the baby, still not understanding what was going on, he studied grouped so that the blows inflicted to him as least possible inconvenience.
Seriously Ninja started to train when they are eight years old. In addition to the eight years of the child I learned to read, to write, to imitate the sounds of animals and birds, throw stones, climb trees, but most importantly - it is to get used to the idea that his way - the way of the warrior, ninja, and learned to be proud of it. When a child is eight years old, his training somewhat modified.
There are three types of training: training feelings (shinren), body workout (tairen) and mind training (chiren).
Train feeling was aimed at the development of the senses and instincts. The young ninja learning to wrap in their favor each case, the right to react to a dangerous situation, endure various hardships - heat, cold, rain, hunger, thirst, pain; understand human nature; instinctively perceive any situation with courage and its straight meeting, adequately respond to it.
Body workout includes the formation and development of every part of the body - not the development of a single, but several features of each body, making the body, in fact, is a weapon that man always has with him. Ninja Training prepares the body for the work he had to carry all the time, helped to withstand the punishment of those who to it ever could be applied.
Training the mind to the knowledge of the ninja prepared strategy and tactics, medicine, poisons and explosives, to the prediction of the weather, to the study of symbolism, dialect, religion, to management, to play musical instruments, dance, singing and philosophy. Masquerading, Ninja not only looked like a man who plays, but was able to do the work appropriate to his role.
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