i cook and live on mt hood oregon and snowboard 200 days a year. i have only been snowboarding for 4 years this winter, and i rode bmx my whole live until 2.5 years ago when i started snowboarding. i come from a pretty religious family and even though i can get wild i have pretty good morals. i live in a 2 bedroom nice apt with vaulted ceilings alone and my landlord owns high cascade snowboard camp. we snowboard all summer and my yard and the empty lot next to it are filled with sand and a oakley, burton, high cascade dodge ball arena goes in. there is a hot dog truck in the yard all summer and it is tons of fun. i live in a mountain village of 150 people on 11,245 foot mt hood at 4000 feet. i trained ninjutsu formally from 1990 - 1992 under shidoshi sprangler in illinois while attending SIU. but i was into ninjutsu since seventh grade. i climbed roofs and trees and wore tabi and made bokken and just read books. when i found the bujinkan i was stoked. i quit for some reason and started training again with same teacher who currently has bujinkan still in illinois and has website on net with some vid clips too.., during the years 1997-1999. i moved to oregon then and i started training bujinkan again for 2 years under shidoshi vandahey from 2002 - 2004. he currently goes to japan once a year to train with hatsumi. i quit again to move to mt hood and there is no bujinkan here so i just train solo. i am only a 4th kyu in the bujinkan and ranked with certificate from japan(menkyo) that is stamped by hatsumi personally. but i did go through 6 ranks and ninjutsu isnt like some arts where showing up for 2 years and paying dues gets you a black belt. and it is not about the belt it is about the spirit and heart of the individual itself. living up on the mt i have lots of time to chill and be on the net and that is where i discovered choson ninja with his dtg karate, and i met shinobi mystic, shinobi shegundo,kunoichi laura, toshiko, kunoichi jena, rick from taihojutsu, and other martial arts friends around the world. i liked choson ninjas attitude and that he teaches for free and everything else he does for people. i will admit training in the bujinkan made me skeptical of people talking about real ninja training if they werent in bujinkan under hatsumi but i grew up since then. choson has listed me as one of his asst instructors to help show techniques and make videos and i am greatly honored by it. i feel like i have made some good friends with good martial artists from various backgrounds and styles who all love ninjutsu, through choson ninja. i have recently been awarded black belt in the art of nintaijutsu in the school of choson dtg karate from master park choson ninja. outdoor videos are coming. read later for updates.

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