If you were a white guy in the 80s you could just lie about having learned ninja skills from masters in Japan and nobody actually had any way of checking that so if you were confident enough they just believed you
Steven Segal made a whole movie career out of that lie
In the movie No Retreat, No Surrender, there is literally an Asian kid who does this.
I saw this book in bisbee arizona and took a picture, it was full of black and white photos of this dude in urban environments in the middle of the day acting like a damn fool
You can still do this today, you just have to do it to old people
and if they question it, the only way to prove it is to kick their ass. and it will be easy because deep down they WANT you to kick their ass, because that means they met—and fought—a real ninja. what a time to be alive.
Omg it still exists www.realultimatepower.net
80's and 90's media convinced me as a kid that I would encounter substantially more ninjas as an adult
You didn’t even have to be in shape lol. You could have a gut and buggy whip arms and then Black Belt magazine would call you the deadliest man in the world
The era before Naruto running was required to demonstrate legitimacy