Shinkendo - An Embarrassment to Japan

 The running joke in the martial arts world is that Shinkendo is a crappy sword art for fat old white dudes in the US and Europe… End of all of those crappy Shinkendo  schools, Many former students say the absolute worst dojo is the one in Boston lead by some goofy little smelly guy name shiafttee and his goofy kids. But how does such a bad reputation go over with Yukishiro Obata, The fat son of Kaiso With 1/10 of his fathers skill. Let’s face it it had a shot making it big and now it’s dwindling down to nothing under Yuki because of the bad reputation and negative use that many hold about the school on social media. I don’t know I think all people should do their research and decide for  themselves if this Boston Shinkendo Dojo sucks as bad as everyone seems to think it does.

 Tale of a Toxic Sensei (reposed from www.wayofbushido.com) When you first read the title of this post you initial reaction may be "Oh lord" not another internet rant about some a-hole Sensei with a serious bout of dojo derangement syndrome from some whiny student with an ax to grind... Well the initial response to that thought would be YES, yes there are definitely some elements of that in this post. However, rather than being a simple rant, the intention of this thread is more along the lines of understanding the warning signs from martial arts instructors who exhibit seriously bizarre behavioral issues, and what that does for studying martial arts in general. Ok, ok... I fully get that perhaps that seems like a veiled way of ranting and raving from the vantage point of some "moral high ground" and I fully concede that would be a fair assumption for the reader without any first hand knowledge. So rather than attempt to sell anyone on my sole view of this story, I ...

 Does this image symbolize the history of the International Shinkendo Federation dojo in Boston, aka Boston Shinkendo and it s widely despised instructors “little Shafteee”..... This doesn’t look like a success story to most? Hey Yukishiro Obata does this scream success to you?