Phantom Art

Phantom Art are a series of techniques created by Joshin that makes use of the users' joints and muscles. Joshin decided to create the art after mastering a Kenjutsu style that he created, again the art is based off of specific muscle and joint movements. These movements drastically increases the speed of the user to points where the sharingan can't predict their movements. This style cannot be copied as there are huge physical requirements to even be an adaptive user of this technique.

If the user doesn't have the right conditioning for this style of fighting, then it could take them decades upon decades to achieve this style. This style uses two parts of the body to generate fast movements, the joints and muscles. With the muscles, the user has to be able to control how his muscles generate and emit force; while lots of people can do that with no problem, they have to be able to instantaneously stop that movement. Joshin first did this in his arms when making a kenjutsu style called Flowing Rivers, but in this case they have to be able to do this all around the body. The user has to have a keen sense of touch, and good perception to determine which muscle needs to emit this certain amount of force, to move this fast. It took Joshin over a decade to just achieve this in his arms let alone his whole body, but when he did he could move at immense speeds.

The style doesn't stop there as the user has to have full joint movement around their whole body to achieve the speeds of this style. To do this the user has to simultaneously move their joints in a specific if not all areas mixed in with their muscle movements to move at certain speeds. For example, if the user is performing a swinging motion with a sword, the only joint they are most likely using are the ones in the elbow, shoulder, wrist and hand. But the problem is, this movement is not simultaneous which causes a slower dragged out strike. But if they use these joints at the same time, it is one swift movement that moves at a very high rate of speed that generates a lot of force. And when mixed in with the users ability to control how much their muscles generate and emit force, you have a even faster motion that is very unpredictable.

Though this takes years of training to become adapted to this, Joshin himself even injured himself when trying to achieve these movements. Though once achieved, the user is very fast and nearly unstoppable in close ranges.