Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa


The world of Sports and Martial Arts moves into the 21st Century with ever-increasing infleuence and effect in our everyday lives. Participation by children and adults in Sports and Martial Arts increases daily while exercise has become a national and international obsession. The focus on competition globally in the world of business, politics and professional Sports is reflected and played out on basketball courts, baseball diamonds and soccer fields in neighborhoods around the world. The popularity of Martial Arts movies and their heroes have infleuenced viewers to get off their couches and join the nearest Kung Fu, Karate, Aikido, Jujitsu class. Professional athletes also are studying Martial Arts to increase their peak performance output. The marriage of Sports and Martial Arts training is inevitable and looks to the future with great promise.

Ninjah Sportz has created a hybrid training system based on the Martial Arts principles of the physical structure, energy source and movement.The Ninjah Sportz Movement is comprised of a revolutionary water conditioning form, a balance and advanced core training system using weights and a redesigning of movement through suspended stretching speed, quickness, agility and power. Ninjah Sportz uses the Martial Arts view of the body in its animal structure to address balance in posture, joint and ligament power but most importantly, efficiency and function in movement. Martial Arts understands that the breath is primary not only in mental focus and clarity but is also critical as an never-ending energy source for movement. Animal like movements require major mobility in hips and ankles that have not been available in most athletes due to inadequate tretching. Ninjah Sportz redefines stretching in a revolutionary manner by suspending and supporting the body with the resistance of gravity. Thus the body will be safe to take movement to the next level. Ninjah Sportz is also based in the Martial Arts principles of heart, humility and honor and looks to the Sports World as a fertile ground for the re-establishment of those principles. Without heart, athletes end up viewing Sports as business forgetting their "love of the game". Without humility, athletes simply become ego caricatures of themselves ripe for media exploitation through hype. Without honor, "cheap shot" moves to disable opponents become commonplace and unbearable to watch. The business of Sports has over run the beauty of Sports at the cost of creating "unsportsman like" athletes as heroes for children. Sports business has made athletes highly expendable and dispensible without regard for the humanity of athletes. Ninjah Sportz seeks to shift the importance from the business of Sports to the essence of Sports and from the "love of the game" to the "love of the athlete".

Ninjah Sportz realizes that idle claims without substance is the norm in our world today and takes very seriously the magnitude of "the range of change" necessary to implement such a revolutionary step in the Sports World. The beauty and truth of working with athletes lies in their short attention span for unreal claims. If a shoe doesn't feel comfortable, they don't mind expressing it freely. If a training technique doesn't work, the same is true. The results from Ninjah Sports will define its future. The essence of the Ninjah Sportz is best summed up in an ancient Samurai battle prayer...."if I am true and right in my purpose,may I succeed.... if I am untrue and wrong, may I die..." So be it.