Hand Seals and givin the secret away.

[Goingin]

Ehmm.... don't u people ever get away from the pc and do some physical heavy work?

[Masakari]

I've seen on a number of occasions the person saying the technique under their breath. Correct me if I'm wrong but they don't necessarily scream it out for their opponents to hear it. And Naruto tends to scream his techniques, but his fighting style is so blatently obvious that screaming doesn't really give him away. Except when he does little strategies where he hides a shadow clone or something. The more I think about it, the more I realize Naruto is a horrible ninja...

[Ryogo]

i was just going to say that, it depends on the situation (if u want to put urself in the anime, when realistically it's just for drama, i mean in real life you dont stop in the middle of a fight to talk with the other guy, like they do in animes all the time.) when they're fighting, i dont think whispering or yelling th technique will make a difference, unless the person knows the technique and knows how to counter/dodge it whatever, which is not very likely becuase even if they can counter it, they just dont throw a technique at them when they're ready. and yes, we all know naruto is just a chakra whore who has no real fighting style.

[Deblas]

we all know naruto is just a chakra whore who has no real fighting style.[/quote]

Not true

[viza]

I think it's us hearing them think... Maybe the are telling their opponent which technique they are going to use to rip them a new one.

[Nara Shikamaru VI]

correct me if i am wrong but in certain culture they belief by muttering certain word will cause certain effect. eg to the egyptian, knowing certain names allows u to have certain power. eg when Osiris mum (forgot what's her name) tricked Ra in revealing his name. also i think in the Hebrew culture some words actually have magical means thus the cabbalist scholar.

and to ninjutsu, seals and some writtings actually contain those magical means. without making those hand gesture one cannot perform the desirable actions i guess. i know to us when we do seals nothing except laughter and weird looks from people around us are achieve but in that fantasy world it actually could be deadly

just like according to hebrew legend. by inscribing the word Emet and place the scroll in a clay doll and u'll get a golem. and by erasing the E u get met (death) thus destroying it. in legend it may be possible and it is the only way to construct a golem, but inreality that is just nonsense.

same rule apply here. ninjutsu require the user to perform seal in order to excute their moves, whereas we know that it is pointless and stupid.