Boston Shinkendo Controversies - Shinkendo, a made up style claims to be the "true way of the sword"... hmmmmm
Ko-ryū ( Japanese : 古流 , "old school") is a Japanese term for any kind of Japanese school of traditional arts. The term literally translates as " old school " ( ko —old, ryū —school) or "traditional school". It is sometimes also translated as "old style". Shinkendo : a made up style created in the 1990's by a dude who played the bad guy in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie... Shinkendo is based predominantly on Toyama Ryu which itself is a post Samurai era style, and has a few made up kata and some techniques ripped off from Yagyu Shinkage Ryu. The found Toshishiro Obata even admits this... his goofball sun now runs the so called International Shinkendo Federation is made up by predominantly fat old white dudes in the US and Europe who like to do Samurai cosplay and make fools of themselves in the martial arts world. The only true thing about Shinkendo is that it TRULY is a style for WIMPS and WEIRDOS! Take the case of the Bo
