What is the training for a samurai?

Answer 1

Input from various martial artists: # Practice, practice, practice!
# To become a master, one must learn from a master.
# Only others can call you a master, you cannot call yourself a master, or you have failed to learn what it takes to become one.

The way to martial arts studyThe first step is to find the martial art that is to you as you are to it. Not necessarily a martial art that looks impressive or that is best known. The martial art that when you see it or try it, feels as if it is exactly what you would like to feel not only to know. It is not rare to try a few Martial Arts until you find 'yours'.

The second step is to find a true teacher, not who holds more ranks or belts, not who is best known, but one who enjoys teaching and has learned from who enjoyed teaching. One who looks fluent and discreet, one whose techniques flow, not start and stop like a memorized exercise. One with students who like him/her as a mentor, not as a teacher who they will forget soon. All what you will learn, all what you can become in martial arts, depends more on the right teacher than in hard study.

The third step is to live the martial art, not just to train it or learn it, but to feel it part of your everyday life. Walk, eat, work and move as if you are in training, not obvious or exaggerate but just enough to feel it and to others don't notice. Don't limit a martial art to the practice, integrate it in your life.

The rest of the way is to observe, respect, learn, try, keep trying and enjoy the moments of achievement.

If you follow all these steps , two things will happen, you will realize one day that you don't need any longer to be a master and you will see in front of you a group of anxious students waiting for you show them how to become a master of martial arts.



Live with a Grandmaster.
The answer to that question is complicated! But the answer is you have to be 13 yrs of age or older to become a pro. There is a camp out in Montauk, NY, USA. If you are interested in becoming spectacular at Martial Arts then you better hurry up and make sure the years pass by quickly so you can turn 13 or older and go to Montauk, to that camp. You have to get more info about the camp on the web.

Answer 2

A samurai is a warrior who pledges his or her life to a lord , there not born but they train mostly since very young ages some villages train as whole

Samurai means to serve. at the time this meant serving as a warrior

Samurai don't become Samurai, they are born in to a Samurai clan. Generally both parents come from a Samurai family, but the father has to be a Samurai if the son is to be a Samurai. So unless your father is Japanese there is no way. If he is go back through your family tree, but you would already know if he was, it's kind of a big deal.

Before the separation law, anyone who could afford training could become one.

But, if you want to become a samurai? If you could get enough people to accept you as a samurai then you would be.
its takes a lot to be a sumer because they achieve so many things

Answer 3

Read "the way of the Samurai" a common book you'll likely find it anywhere and receive proper instruction on how to become one. (by the way Samurai and warrior mean the basically the same thing) You can't, Samurai was a social class in Feudal Japan the only way you can become a Samurai is to travel back in time and be born into a Samurai family.

Answer 4

You don't rise to the level of samurai - - you kneel and bow. The term samurai literally means "to serve." In the Japanese warrior class, the highly trained Martial Artists and swordsmen pledged their loyalty and life to the service of a person of nobility, or the Emperor himself. Samurai lived by a code of conduct contained within the teachings of bushido ("Way of the warrior"), which included deep rooted philosophy, appreciation of the value of life, art, calligraphy, poetry, music, nature, ethics, and seeking spiritual enlightenment.

In modern times, a person could be said to follow the way of the samurai by training in Martial Art and combat related skills, living a life dedicated to serving a higher cause or defending one's own country or those who hold governmental office, and maintaining a mastery of self control between the violence of combat, and the peace and harmony of daily life in society with a balance of the body, mind and spirit.

Answer 5

In modern times, if you are serious, and ultra hardcore, really serious about being a Samurai, you have to study Aikido. More than merely "the closest thing" to being a Samurai, Morihei Ueshiba insisted, Aikido was "living Bushido." Ueshiba, the martial art's founder argued, that it was no different, from the path followed by Samurai in days past in terms of philosophy, it was different in terms of approach. That is, in 15th century Japan it was legal to kill a man in a duel, or tournament, do that now though, with a Katana, and you are looking at time in a mental institution.

Then there is also the ethics and legality of self-defense; Ueshiba observed, that humanity became more and more corrupt. Whereas 500 years ago, if even so much as government thugs assaulted you, and you smacked the crap out of them, that would be the end of it. In this day and age people are cowards; if they can't get you physically, they'll get you legally, their purpose is to inflict pain any way they can. In a world full of such sociopaths, some of whom have connections and high priced attorneys empowered to destroy your life, Ueshiba, through nearly 2 decades of meditation, eventually came to the realization, that a martial art had to be developed where you do not hurt your opponent at all. See Ueshiba himself was a victim; from the Sengoku period, to the end of the Edo and the beginings of the Meiji, the Samurai, gradually came to lose their priveleges. At first it was only small things, but pretty soon it got to the point where they were no longer mooching of the population.

Pretty soon, all Samurai families had to their name was plots of land; unable to hold any profession in any Japanese cities, the majority of Samurai families, escaped to the mountains or the countryside. Too poor to hold pay for living in a city, and not having the skills for a "real job," they had no choice, but to go live in the mountains or rural communities where they could live off the land, where they could work to grow their own food. The reason, the majority of Samurai families in Japan today, can only be found in the country, is because of the mass migration of that social caste that took place during the end of the edo period. Morihei Ueshiba's own family, especifically his grandparents, was one of those families. See the Ueshiba family, lived in a particularly well forested, visually stunning, visually attractive region of Japan. However, as they say you "can't stop the machine of progress!" Government goons were frequently employed to terrorize and intimidate, the Samurai-turned-hillbilly families, so that they could build things such as factories, schools, etc. That is they would go over to your house, drag you outside and smack the crap out of you if you did not comply, tell you to sign something, days later a wrecking crew would demolish your house, a logging crew would clear the area, and before you knew it, a once natural preserve, was turned into an urban area.

Sorry, no Kung Fu hero Jet Li stuff here; just the harsh reality of the power of the courts, of which Morihei Ueshiba himself was victim. Ueshiba took a vicious beating protecting his father, thus, he resolved to study martial arts. From the age of 8 to 18, a period of 10 years, he became highly proficient in all forms of unarmed Samurai martial arts, in addition to becoming profficient in the study of the Katana, and the short staff, the Jo. Although Samurai were required to learn how to horse ride, use the naginata, the long staff, short staff, katana in ADDITION to the unarmed combat techniques, for all intents and purposes, all other weapons besides the Jo and Katana were "extra." That is, to have the skills of a Samurai, you needed Sumo, Jiu Jitsu, the Jo, and the Katana. Aikido, combines elements of Sumo, with various Jiu Jitsu schools, additionally past the 3rd or 5th dan, if you wish, you can study Iaido ("the art of drawing the sword from its scabbard to cut someone"). Because you do a lot of Zen meditation, and you practice a "streamlined" version of various Samurai unarmed combat arts, in addition to the two required weapons, the Jo and Katana, for all intents and purposes, if you are an Aikido 5th dan, with 5 years experience with both the Katana and Jo, you're a modern Samurai.

Again just because you do not go around dueling people, or participating in major battles, that does not mean you're not; all Aikido represents, is that the role of a Samurai has changed. Aikido takes into consideration the harsh realities of modern day law, and how it has nothing to do with justice in most instances. Law is not concerned with justice, it is concerned with order. You have for example, a situation where say, out on the highway some douche rear ends you, and they keep rear ending you. Next, they pass you at 85 miles per hour and ticked off, you accelerate. Next thing you know, they disappear some backroad somewhere, and you are still going 85 mph. Cop pulls you over, it does not matter that some douche rear ended you, his concern is to prevent car wrecks, not a crusade for justice in hunting down that sociopath. See a lot of people just don't understand that, especially not many martial artists who have a childish view of the world thinking that everything is a Jet Li movie. Ueshiba, when he was a young man, made that mistake; he badly maimed, with his bare hands, goons that had gone to beat up his father. I think he spent 2 or 3 years in prison. From middle to old age, he became an environmentalist, constantly badgering the courts about preserving forested lands in Japan.

In his old age, Ueshiba expressed some regret over studying martial arts; he felt, he should have studied law, that way, he could have protected his father better. To "give back" to the community, he created a "peaceful" martial art. I use quotes, because in Aikido training if you do not attack a training partner full force, the throw just won't work, you need the momentum of a full on attack.

Again, Aikido requires;

1) Grappling skill trademark to the art.

2) Striking skill to help training partners with their grappling skill.

3) Mastery of the Jo, and the Katana

What did Feudal era Samurai require?

1) Sumo and Jiu Jitsu

2) Mastery of the Jo, and the Katana.

As you can see, the training requirements are the same; Sumo I only gave one slot, because its a vast library of techniques, same with Jiu Jitsu some schools, which include striking and kicking. Because you are, in Aikido, basically learning the same required things of a feudal era Samurai, but with a different goal in mind, for all intents and purposes again, if you make it to 5th dan in Aikido, having studied the Jo staff almost from the start, and having studied the sword from the moment you earned your black belt, for all intents and purposes, you're a Samurai. Your skills are the same, you have Zen meditation training, and the ethics have led to spiritual maturity (hopefully).

If you are serious about being a "real Samurai," one with authentic skills the Samurai of old had, Aikido is the way to go.

Answer 6

This for about 16 hours, with meditation breaks in between as "rest periods." Most Samurai spent theird day hacking away with their bokken (the wooden sword shown in the video), or meditating. At least Musashi did; there was nothing fancy about his training, Musashi, literally spent the entire day doing that basic move, and when he was too tired to do it, he meditated. http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=LfCzzliVO8g Most Samurai trained in all weapons of the feudal era Japanese arsenal however the majority specialized in the sword, feeling it was the simplest, most practical and versatile weapon.