Are the ancient training methods of Shaolin kungfu,Ninja methods, the most effective?

Is 4- 6yrs old too young or risky for girls to take up either?





Thanks so much for kind and positive responses!





Have a safe and pleasant week! :-))|||I'm not going to speak about Shaolin Kung Fu training methods... They're not my area of expertise.





There is no need for a child, in this day and age, to go through the training methods of the ninja. Fujita Seiko wrote in detail about the training methods he underwent, and he was a strong young man who wandered off and followed Shugenja into the mountains on a pilgrimage as a small boy and stayed for months.





Eating acids and poisons, binge eating and drinking, self mutilation 鈥?are these habits that you want to train your daughter in?





And who would train her? I know many many ninjutsu instructors, and few know what the training entailed. Walking on the sides and tops of your feet... Until your ankle snaps, then being told since you can't walk on your ankle, you need to walk on your hands until it heals... Leaping fast growing stalked plants (corn, hemp) as it grows to train your vertical leap.





Modern society has no need for this training right now. Even at the height of Sengoku Jidai, the ninja only trained children that they felt had the proper heart and spirit, and their lives depended upon that training. Don't subject your children to such things.|||No, children should start martial arts at a young age actually, it's much safer. Now out of these the most affective is actually Shaolin. Oddly enough it was started by Buddhists, people who never liked fighting, but it was used as training for the mind and body, and was very useful when necessary. Ninja methods are to, considering when learning anything can be used as a weapon in the right hand. Though I do believe Shaolin is more effective. You learn the best ways to fight, the mose fluent and effective movements, it may look kinda weird but its the smartest way to do any attack it adds more power to the attack. So go ahead and have her learn Shaolin ^_^|||The ancient way of training Shaolin kung fu is very effective. If you want her to be able to protect herself, make sure you find a Shaolin school that teaches the applications of the moves and make the kids actually practicing using them. A lot of the shaolin schools out there focus more on wushu now, which is for demos.|||Every martial art, under any instructor, has its merits. No one martial art is in itself entirely more effective than the next.





I don't think that six years old would be too young, depending on the child. The trick is getting the child interested and motivated, and to find someone who would teach a child that age.|||Assuming you're in Singapore, then 4 - 6 is not too young.





Find a good traditional school/teacher with an honorable lineage and history.





If you do this then everything will work out fine and we can look back at this question and laugh together some day.|||Yes i think so and they have to most disciplin..