Spinjitzu

**Spinjitzu** is a close-combat martial arts technique in the world of Ninjago. It involves the user tapping into their inner balance while spinning rapidly, creating a tornado-like vortex of energy around themselves. It is the art of rotation, which adds force and momentum to blows.

## Abilities

* **Energy tornado:** Spinjitzu grants the user the ability to create a tornado of energy and color around themselves while spinning. The user and element (if one is activated/being used) rotate rapidly, allowing quick perception and the ability to hit or spin enemies in the process. When slowed down, it is visible that these tornadoes are made of small elemental particles which, when sped up, form a Spinjitzu tornado. It's not necessary to have an element to use Spinjitzu.
	+ **Speed boost:** In regards to transportation, the Spinjitzu tornado can move horizontally across surfaces at a rapid pace. This speed does not seem to be affected by stairs or the surface of still bodies of water.
	+ **Aerial boost:** By propelling themselves upwards in a certain direction (using a jump or a running jump) and then doing Spinjitzu, the user can be carried through the air in that direction for a short time. This technique is most commonly used as a boost that can significantly increase the reach of a jump.
	+ **Excellent combat:** Spinjitzu is very effective bare-handed, as Yin Garmadon was able to beat Samukai with just Spinjitzu.
	+ **Elemental combination:** The User is able to create a trail of their element by combining their Spinjitzu with a Higher-Level Power.
	+ **Tornado vacuum:** Spinjitzu can be used to suck objects into the Spinjitzu vortex and then telepathically throw them with pinpoint accuracy.
	+ **Drilling/Tunnel Creation:** Spinjitzu can also move downward depending on the situation: the user can choose to drill a hole on the ground to, for example, make a quick escape. However, the surface has to be thin or weak enough for the drilling to work, like a boardwalk.
	+ **Throwing opponents:** The user is able to throw opponents outside of the Spinjitzu tornado after defeating them.
	+ **Quick clothes change:** The speed and the blocked viewing of the user acquired inside the tornado allows a fast and efficient clothing change if the clothes are available.
	+ **Verbal communication:** Verbal communication is possible while doing Spinjitzu, despite all motions being sped up.
	+ **Lack of vision impairment/Vision Impairment Immunity:** Despite the nature of the technique, the user's vision is never observed to be impaired when using Spinjitzu, as they always seem to know where they're going.
	+ **Wielding the Golden Weapons:** The user is given the ability to wield the Golden Weapons properly.
	+ **Object transference:** The user can transfer Spinjitzu to an object before throwing it at the opponent.

## Limits

* **Lack of element/weapon:** Without a weapon or active elemental power, the user's Spinjitzu becomes less effective in defense and offense.
* **Fatigue:** Spinjitzu has a massive toll on the user, requiring much energy to sustain, with individuals at peak physical capability only able to sustain a tornado for about fifteen seconds.
* **Limited mastery:** One of the things required to fully master Spinjitzu is to gain one's True Potential, unlocked once the person overcomes a personal problem that was preventing them from being at peace within themselves.
* **Vulnerability:** While doing Spinjitzu, the user can quite easily be knocked out of their Spinjitzu vortex and can be quite vulnerable after being struck.
* **Inaccuracy:** An inexperienced user would be unable to concentrate where the enemy is.

## Known Users

* Aspheera
* First Spinjitzu Master
* Himari Maya Fukami
* Yang Wu
* Yin Garmadon

## Types of Spinjitzu

### Tornado of Creation

The four masters of Creation can use their Spinjitzu tornadoes to form the Tornado of Creation. By each Master doing Spinjitzu in order (Earth, Fire, Ice, then Lightning), they make a quick spiraling movement, until the four tornadoes get close enough to come together. A large vortex is immediately formed that appears as a combination of the four main elements, known as the Tornado of Creation. Coming out of this tornado is also similar to its formation, with it quickly shrinking in size, followed by the reappearance of the four Spinjitzu tornadoes. The resulting creation also stands where the Tornado of Creation had been.

It can be used similarly to Creation but on a larger scale. The four users can pull materials and objects from around them and into the tornado. The result is any structure, tool, or object (of an abundance of different sizes and shapes) among an almost unlimited variety, bound only by the users' imagination.

Despite its advantages, however, there is one serious drawback: performing the Tornado of Creation is extremely hard and dangerous. It is said that it takes total cooperation, trust, and teamwork for it to be accomplished, or it will have disastrous consequences. Due to this costly risk, the Tornado of Creation is only used in the most desperate of times, if not, as a last resort.

### Forbidden Spinjitzu

Forbidden Spinjitzu is a powerful dark counterpart of Spinjitzu. A millennium ago, during the First Age, the First Spinjitzu Master created two scrolls containing the knowledge and power of the forbidden art. A young Wu and Garmadon took the scrolls against their father's wishes, using it to defeat the Serpentine sorceress, Aspheera.

By holding the scroll, the user is instantly granted incredible power, similar to when an Elemental Master accesses their True Potential. Consequently, it also twists the user's personality by making them aggressive, seemingly causing them to become addicted to it via prolonged usage until they become corrupted. It changes color when it corresponds with a different power. The Forbidden Spinjitzu is much stronger than regular Spinjitzu and can possibly banish or send someone or something to another realm, or even into another time.

### Spinjitzu Burst

The Spinjitzu Burst represents a powerful form of Spinjitzu. Although accessible to any Elemental Master in the presence of their respective Elemental Powers, the knowledge and practice of the technique were exclusively transmitted to the Elemental Masters of Earth. This distinction was established years after the inception of the Burst.

### Other

* Creation - used by Yang Wu
* Destruction - used by Yin Garmadon
* Purple Spinjitzu - used by Aspheera (element-less)

 **Elemental abilities**
 **Serpentine abilities**
 **Dancing techniques**
 **Other abilities**