Ninjya-size Unboxing & Sampler

So, not too long ago, I received my own copy of Ninjya-size in the mail, and thought that it would be fun to do an unboxing video of it for my youtube subscribers. Here it is if you want to check it out:


Overall, I was impressed with how clean and polished of a presentation it was, and if my apartment were bigger, I would love to actually give it a shot. (As with a lot of workouts though, I don't quite have space for it, and being up on the 5th floor necessarily means I can't do anything with a lot of jumping- as such it's pretty much out of the question). The Tatami exercises look great though, and I'm going to encourage Mari to give those a go as a regular way she can work out.

The only real downer about it is the fact that I lost my Dad right in the middle of rehearsals for the dance routines so I missed most of them... and at times, it shows a bit in the video. While it looks great overall, everyso often you can see times where I had clearly made a mistake, and as a professional, naturally that's a hard pill to swallow for me. Partitcularly since it was so carefully edited, I was surprised that the director chose some of the cuts that he did. Such is the nature of working in entertainment though. Regardless of what's happening in your personal life, if it shows on camera, then that's all people see is the mistake. In that respect, sometimes it's still nice being a "non-famous" entertainer ;) Anyway, as I said, overall it looks good, the producer was happy with it, and I was paid well for it, so no complaints, I guess.

Ninjya-cise Intro Video

So, for those of you who remembered me posting about it earlier, the intro video for Ninjya-size (the ninjya-based exercise video I did over this summer) is finally out. Overall, looks pretty cool! The action direction was by Yuji Shimomura, and the direction was actually by Shinichi Fujita, so in effect, it was brought to you by the same direction team that brought you Death Trance. (It also utilizes a few of the same ninja stunt men!) The trick-kicks and weapons performance were by good friend, Jackie Nattapong. As for the main female video in the vid, it was my first time to work with her, but if my memory serves me, she was one of the stunt fighters in the resent bio-hazard movie. Anyway, as for the DVD itself, it is going on sale worldwide, so if you are looking for a completely different kind of way to get your exercise kicks, you may want to look into it ;) Will post more details about how and where to pick it up as I get them.

I can tell you this about it already: If you burn half as many calories doing it as I did filming it, then I think it will be more than worth your money ;)

Will write more about this project as I get more info myself! But for now, here's the vid! Check it out!