Thursday, November 19, 2020

Boston Shinkendo Controversies! - Yukishiro Obatas Shame?

 

Yukishiro Obata

When you are the SOKE of an international martial arts federation, as in the case of Yukishiro Obata, the things that go on at dojos in your organization are inevitably your responsibility.

Take for example all the controversy that occurred at the infamous Boston Shinkendo dojo in Boston.

The sensei, often referred to as "Little Shafty" was despised by many who studied at his dojo, and it got so bad they all rose up against him and split his school.

Social media reports said he belittled students who didn't agree with him, even on topics that had nothing to do with martial arts. He would stick his nose into their personal lives, demand they spend their time doing things for his dojo, like online promotions and blogs, combining that with very inconsistent teaching, boring classes, little skill, and pushing his goofy kids to be leaders when they were barely old enough to wipe their own behinds.

No need to go into all the stores about little shafty, there are tons of them on the Internet.

Suffice to say many students reached out to the ISF leadership through a guy named Mike M. (another one of Yuki's lackeys), he promised to hear the students complaints and escalate to Yukishiro, but in the end they simply ignored the entire issue and the students all just quit the ISF permanantly.

I mean lets get real, who wants to train in all that silliness?

That said, Yukishiro Obata should be criticized by ALL the ISF sensei's (at least those with some balls), who should review the Boston Shinkendo events and take whatever action is deemed necessary. (that is the view of many familiar with this story).

Many feel that Yukishiro Obata should be ashamed, and its a sure bet Kaiso certainly would not have "wimped out".

The ISF has degraded into nonsense!


#obata #boston #shinkendo #shinkendoBoston #yukishsiro #kasio #


Thursday, October 15, 2020

Boston Shinkendo Controversies - desperation showing! Tales of a screwball dojo!

 

Boston Shinkendo
Family Friendly is another way of saying McDojo!

Well it looks like little shafty is in desperation mode again!

First it was spamming YELP with silly reviews, now he is having his 2 or 3 remaining student post similar nonsense about his "Family Friendly" dojo!

LMAO who signs up to learn what is supposed to be billed as a traditional Samurai art in a "Family Friendly" dojo?

LETS BE HONEST

Family Friendly is code for WIMPY dojo full of morons!

But hey, this is just our view, if a family friendly dojo is what your after, you should sign on the dotted line over at Shafty's Boston Shinkendo Hellhole!

LMAO good luck showing up at a real dojo in your silly Shinkendo gi wearing your stupid patch and being laughed at by all the REAL martial artists!



#shinkendo #boston_shinkendo #shit_dojo #mcdojo #obata #yukishiro_obata #tameshigiri #fake_koryu #jinsei_shinkendo #asshead_shinkendo


Sunday, September 27, 2020

Boston Shinkendo holds Goofy Tameshigiri Session !

 

Boston Shinkendo

Well it looks like all the ridicule and laughter about Boston Shinkendo on social media has gotten to little shafty butcraccus.
It is reported that he is holding his first Tameshigiri session in almost two years.

Apparently after the embarrassment of watching his kid fail to cut a tatami mat in front of the entire class, and being laughed at by real martial artists and real dojos all over the Internet was more than shafty could take.

Here is an article on the Internet entitled

That article was highly amusing, but must have annoyed shafty to no end. So we hear he is rounding up his over the hill students, and one or two non geriatric students that may still actually attend that dojo, to cut a few mats.

The real question is did asshead actually go into his own pocket and buy the mats himself or is he planning to use the ones that former students WHO DITCHED HIS LAME DOJO purchased with their own money and donated for student use?

We don't know the answer to that, we are confident that the Tameshigiri session will be an exercise in standard shinkendo stupidity and indicative of how pathetic that style and that school is.


We wonder if "BRINGIT" will cut a mat? We would love to see that footage posted on the crappy Boston Shinkendo Facebook page!

But feel free to develop your own opinion, this is just ours.



Friday, August 21, 2020

Stupid Boston Shinkendo Sensei pushes false narrative about students who dumped him and his crap dojo!

 

Stupid Boston Shinkendo Sensei pushes BS

As the truth keeps coming out about the much despised Shinkendo instructor Little Shafty aka the "weasel",  its beginning to sink into to folks about the unprecedented level of depravity many believe he has gone.

Recently one current student shared his experience at a BOSTON SHINKENDO ANNOYED STUDENTS meetup session, and he described how shafty portrayed students who he forced out or quit on him.

There were false comments and spin about events around the infamous Honbu dojo visit, Shafty pushed poorly researched background info on former students as he tried to push a narrative about that student to suit his BS defense to the ISF who are clearly wondering "what the heck is going on in Boston".

All the students, at least 10 of them have agreed to go on the record publicly about their experiences at the Boston Shinkendo dojo in order to prevent future students form undergoing the same manipulative and insane treatment they say they were subjected to.

Also they all agree, that his kids may  be nice people they are not very skilled at shinkendo and should be be teaching classes.

We can't confirm if this is true or not about his kids, but the comments seem to be consistent.

Hey Obata Soke, is this the values that the ISF promotes?
It's a fair question.


#shinkendo #boston shinkendo #obata toshishiro #obata yukishiro #jinsei shinkendo #japanese swordsmanship #tameshigiri #boston martial arts #kendo #katana


Sunday, August 16, 2020

Boston Shinkendo more Sordid Shafty Stories of Hipocracy and Megalomania

 

Boston Shinkendo Hypocrite

When it come to sordid tales of weird martial arts experiences, the stories we are told from current and former Boston Shinkendo students make the top of the list.

Many of you may have read the article on the well respected Martial Arts Blog
www.WayOfBushido.com about Boston Shinkendo entitled Horror At Honbu Dojo.

Or you are familiar with the many comments and reviews on the Boston Martial Arts Blog and Social Media site.

Well if you read Horror at Honbu Dojo you will recall the event where the students from BosShin flew out to LA to attend a seminar at the Shinkendo Honbu dojo.

Little Shafty aka the "weasel" never told the students that the Honbu dojo had moved and not updated their address on the Shinkendo website at that time.

So the students, who had never been their before naturally googled the address and ended up going to the wrong place.

They contacted Yuki Obata and got the updated address and hauled ass across LA traffic in rush hour and made it to the dojo about 10 min past the agreed upon time that they would show up.

Shafty went ballistic, he got on the phone abusing the students verbally and for months after kept bringing up how they arrived late to meet with Yuki, never once accepting any responsibility for not providing them the proper information.

Even a year later Shafty was bringing this up, but one thing he NEVER bring up, is about 4 months after that Honbu trip, Yuki was going to the Montreal dojo to do a seminar, and of course Shafty being the butt licker he is, tried to be part of that event, and try to take the mantle of "respected east coast dojo" a title pretty much reserved for Sensei Lou of Modern Samurai.

So one student who wasn't able to attend Honbu decided to go to Montreal, he arrived a day early and began training with the class their.

Shafty was schedule to arrive the first day of seminar, and drove up with his kid...
So you wanna laugh?

Shafty shows up an hour and a half late, after the seminar already started!

The Honbu students made it to California from Boston and were only 10 min late, and Shafty couldn't even get to Montreal on time.

Reports from the Student who attended were that Yuki rolled his eyes and shook his heads, the general concensus from the students is that Yuki deep down inside probably thinks Shafty is a moron.... well, can you blame him?

After training at the bar, having drinks Shafty was putting on the butt licking schmooze trying to make Yuki like him, and the students there, from Montreal and even Shafty's kid were all rolling their eyes.

We heard that some students commented they wished Shafty never even attended.

Hmmmmm, that seems to be a common theme with people connected to Boston Shinkendo.
"Things are always better when Shafty is not around"

We hope that the leadership of the ISF can recognize this.


#Boston Shinkendo #Shinekndo #International Shinkendo Federation #Obata Yukishiro #Obata Toshishiro #Jinsei Shinkendo #Tameshigiri #BringIT

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Wimpy Shinkendo Soke Whines on Facebook about Tameshigiri spurred on by Boston Shinkendo Goofball Sensei

Wimpy Shinkendo

Well its clear why Little Shafty is such a weasel, he operates under a wimpy Soke.

The head of the International Shinkendo Federation posted rules banning students from training tameshigiri at their homes, without instructor oversight.

LMAO some martial arts style, this is clearly a sword school for Fat Old Wimps and whiners.

No serious student of Japanese sword would take this kind of thing seriously.

So the apple doesn't fall far from the tree when you talk about Boston Shinkendo sucking...

Although apparently Little Shafty went beserk when he wasn't invited to the party! LMAO !
What a clown.


#shinkendo #wimpy sword style #no balls shafty #modern samurai my ass #fake #wimps #martial arts crap #mcdojo #boston martial arts #yukishiro obata #kaiso obata # ISF #international shinkendo federation #joke style #jinsei shinkendo

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Boston Shinkendo Sensei must be asking the eternal question "Why do I suck"?

Boston Shinkendo Sensei "Dirty Little Shaftee" the guy who ran his crappy little dojo into the ground with basically most of his students bailing out on him.

Boston Shinkendo Face It you suck!

We hate to break it to you Shaftee Butcraccus, but your dojo sucks, your instruction sucks, you are weak both physically and emotionally, and no one has any respect for you.

Take up teaching Bingo classes because your dojo days are done!

#Yukishiro Obata #Boston Shinkendo #Toshishishiro Obata #Fake Koryu #Boston Martial Arts #Shinkendo Boston #Shaftee Sucks #International Shinkendo Federation #Shinkendo Athens #Shinkendo USC #Shinkendo UK #Modern Samurai Shinkeno

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Boston Shinkendo Dojo a Total Failure!


Boston Shinkendo Total Failure
As we examine recent events specific to the Boston Shinkendo Shoshinkan dojo we have to look at its history and it’s goals.
Has this dojo been on a trajectory for success? Or one of total failure?

Well for at least 1.5 years this dojo had a glimmer of hope.

There was a decent sized student body with motivated practitioners who all hung out as friends outside the dojo, but somehow this relationship caused jealousy in the insecure mind of the wretched Sensei Shaffee a6ka Little Shafty...
He couldn’t stand the fact  that the students were friends and did their own thing outside of his “dojo realm“.
He started trying to play the students off one another causing endless drama, taking business advice from a 20 year old kid who was extremely jealous that she wasn’t part of the student Clique.

The drama became so intense that the whole place began to fall apart, Shafty became neurotic, and paranoid, worrying about What’sApp chat groups and people’s personal social media pages.
When some fat old sack of crap ass kisser type joined the dojo Shafty used him to cause  grief.

He put more effort into DRAMA then he ever did in trying to produce quality Shinkendo students.
Dirc g the pandemic he barely attends the lame virtual class leaving it to The one senior student actually crazy enough to put up,with his deranged antics.
All the good students either left or emotionally checked out and only a few newbies and the fat ok guy spend money for a class they will never learn anything in.

Overall it’s is safe to say that any reasonable person would concur with...

The Boston Shinkendo Dojo is a TOTAL FAILURE!

Way to go Shafty! You did a helluva a job ruining it all.


Friday, June 5, 2020

Feedback On Boston Shinkendo Drama Dojo


  1. Boston Shinkendo Drama Dojo
    James
    21 May

    Thank you for posting this detailed article about Boston Shinekndo.
    I believe you hit the nail on the head with great accuracy.

    Good post!

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  2. Thomas C.21 May

    I trained there for half a year before I finally got some sense and split!
    There is no structure in that dojo. The Sensei is all over the map with his instruction, he can't even stick to a steady class schedule.
    On Sundays he tries to force students to learn some half baked BO style which he totally sucks at. He teaches that same three moves which are basically NOTHING and you could have learned yourself with a drumstick in you living room.

    All this guys does is talk about himself, he is a kook and that place is haven for drama!!!!

    SUCKS!

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  3. AlexV21 May

    Boston Shinkendo Stinks!

    I saw that jackass Shaffee posting crap on twitter promoting his stupid dojo!
    He sucks!

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  4. Drama Dojo,!

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  5. Anonymous22 May

    I regret every attending classes their, he plays people off of each other and is very manipulative. I will remain anonymous because he still has my stuff in his dojo that I would like to get back when things open up from Covid.

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  6. Mike M22 May

    I can certainly understand you remaining anonymous, who wants to get caught up in Boston Shinkendo BS! Especially with a nutball like shafty!!

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  7. James H.22 May

    You see the fake "heart felt" reviews on the Yelp site? I was laughing my ass off when I saw Shafty's sock puppets posting praise for that weasel. As if anyone would actually bother to read or believe that nonsense!
    HAHAHA

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  8. Shafty Sucks22 May

    You know he is pushing certain people to post positive things about him, but barring one or two serious boot lickers, no one really has anything positive to say. That's how bad that place is in their minds.

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  9. Whiny Yelp Poster22 May

    I heard only a handful of students are going back after the pandemic cuz he is such a jackass

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  10. https://bostonshinkendosucks.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/is-boston-shinkendo-hitting-the-panic-button-as-students-bail-on-crap-dojo/comment-page-1/#comment-16

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  11. Anonymous23 May

    I'm dying to join his WhatsApp Chat group, I want to get alerts from goofballs posting #BRINGIT all day long! Hahaha

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  12. Anonymous05 June

    What kind of dojo spends more effort on stupid WhatsApp chat groups then it does teaching people martial arts. Boston Shinkendo is definitely the worst school I ever heard of!

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Friday, May 29, 2020

Boston Shinkendo Desperation

Boston Shinkendo

Yuki must have told shit for brains to stand down so he doesn’t continue to make a fool of himself!


So the theory is he is soliciting others to write pro Boston Shinkendo nonsense online at sites like YELP thinking it will convince people that he’s not really a moron.

Good luck with that !


How utterly desperate can someone be?









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Thursday, May 28, 2020

Boston Shinkendo reviewed on Boston Martial Arts Review page

The Boston Shinkendo Scandals

The first post we do related to the Boston Martial Arts scene will be focused on the infamous Boston Shinkendo Shoshinkan dojo located in the Chinatown district.

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Boston Shinkendo exploits have recently come to light after a series of postings were published on the very well respected website: www.wayofbushido.com here are links to those articles

Boston Shinkendo Toxic Sensei

Boston Shinkendo Horror at Honbu Dojo

Boston Shinkendo Boot Licker

These article are definitely recommended reading if you are doing research into the Boston Shinkendo dojo.

This school isn't thought of highly by most martial arts practitioners, and when you interview current or former students you get the same feedback... DRAMA! NOTHING BUT DRAMA!

The Sensei whom many have nicknamed "Little Shafty" is rumored to be a serious megalomaniac who only cares about appealing to the Soke of the International Shinkendo Federation (Yukishiro Obata) and not a lot of focus on producing quality martial artists.

The drama is so bad at Boston Shinkendo there are reports of the Sensei meddling in peoples personal lives, asking for LinkedIN business references and even recently a scandal on the YELP website around fake reviews and censroship.

The style of Shinkendo is basically a rip off of Toyama Ryu and while the ISF doesn't claim to be a Koryu or "traditional old school" art, the Boston Shinkendo Sensei tries to play it off to prospective students as if it is a "TRADITIONAL JAPANESE DOJO" which it most certainly IS NOT.

There are even online meetings and monthly get togethers of students who want nothing to do with the Sensei and train together, and or discuss how horrible their experiences were at Boston Shinkendo.

Here is a list of resources you may wish to look into should you want more information about Boston Shinkendo Dojo

DOJO WATCH

Shinkendo USA

https://bostonmartialartsblog.blogspot.com/

https://twitter.com/BostonShinkendo

https://bostonshinkendosucks.wordpress.com/latest-boston-shinkendo-posts/

Unhappy Boston Shinkendo Student Meetup

Boston Shinkendo Exposed

There are plenty more, but these give you the basic set of details for you individual research.

Overall our assessment of this Dojo is its not recommended.

Sunday, May 24, 2020

What does Obata think about Boston Shinkendo?

What does Obata Think about Boston Shinkendo
What does Obata think about Boston Shinkendo 

We all know that Soke Yuki Obata is aware of the BS scandals, but the question is has he made his father the founder of International Shinkendo aware of it?

Toshishiro Obata aka Kaiso is the one Little Shafty likes  portrays as his extended family, as if he is a long lost son...... that’s hysterical!

I doubt Kasio would be very proud of the fact that students have left the ISF and that a goofy little sack of cap like Shafty would bring this kind of attention to the art.

Yukishiro, you are in charge now, what are you going to do about it?

Allow Kaiso to feel ashamed?

....sigh, definitely not the Samurai way!

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

International Shinkendo Federation Silent on the Little Shafty Scandal!

ISF seems to goe into hiding on Facebook probably because of mess created by Boston Shinkendo idiot

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International Shinkendo Federation in hiding because of moron sensei from Boston

Just like the proverbial ostrich who hides its head in the sand, the International Shinkendo Federation has opted to hide out on Facebook to avoid controversy and association with the mess created by the buffoon from Boston Shinkendo.

Hidden ISF Shinkendo Group due to stupid Boston crap

Now the ISF leadership may be pretending to play along in support of BS, but the truth is the face of all this nonsense rests purely on little "Shafty".

That mope should just apologize to all Shinkendo students world wide and abstain from teaching for 6 months as a penance for the shame he brought to Jinsei Shinkendo.

Boston Shinkendo Toxic Sensei

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 leave it to each individual reader to assess my motivations based upon what you learn from this series of posts.

I can say that every situation described in what you are about to read, ACTUALLY happened and any area that can't be factually validated via witness statements, or other fact based material will be noted as speculative on my part.

The key to credibility is truth and honesty, there is no substitute.

So with said, let me also state with FULL DISCLOSURE, that I myself can be a bit of a drama queen in my own way, although my flair for drama tends more towards the sarcastic/humorous side, rather than any deranged megalomania.

But I will acknowledge that what may be humorous to me can also be viewed as antagonistic by others. So there is no way I can honestly say I don' share some level of culpability.

I most certainly do.

How much culpability.... you decide.

So strap yourself in, this is gonna be one helluva story!


Where it began

Boston Shinkendo is an ISF licensed dojo located in the Boston Chinatown district, and run by a man we will refer to in this post as "little shaffee". (no last names will be published out of respect for family).

The dojo itself is small, but clean and quaint, with an air of antiquity that has its own unique charm. The volume of students varies every few months, but the core base of students, who have been training for over a year is roughly seven, augmented by ancillary newbies that come and go.

Little shaffee is a man in his early 50's, a small framed guy, a bit frail to look at, who has been training in Shinkendo somewhere between 15-20 years. His personal Shinkendo skills are fairly decent, his cuts are fluid and clean, foot work and timing is good, and his overall technique while not perfect, is respectable.

His teaching and leadership skills on the other hand leave a lot to be desired, (more details on that later in the post).

Little shaffee likes to portray the Boston Dojo which he named "Soshinkan" as a traditional Japanese dojo, and he is quite adept at doing the "Dojo Dog & Pony Show" when new students come to watch, and to be fair there are some traditional culture aspects integrated into the dojo, but these are only surface level activities and nothing of any substance.

Little shaffee loves to tout the concept of "tanren" philosophy in the dojo but nothing could be further from the truth. Tanren is usually translated as training, but it is more than simple training; It is the process of making oneself malleable to instruction, and homogenizing all aspects of what a student learns and leading to a purer final result.

However, little shaffees version of Tanren, is basically this in a nutshell (my own paraphrasing):

I will be utterly inconsistent in training structure and curriculum, I will not follow through on anything I say I will do for more than a week or two, and you must understand that this chaos and confusion is all to help you become a better Shinkendo student, and this is how Kaiso believes you should be trained.

----WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP!!!!

"Kaiso" being Toshishiro Obata the founder of International Shinkendo who's name is constantly invoked by little shaffee whenever he is trying to persuade or manipulate the student body into believing they need to do more to support Shinkendo.

*By the way, doing more for Shinkendo really means, some menial task to promote his own personal interests that he's to lazy to do himself.

Of course there is always some goofy new student, you know, the "Boot Licker" type, that is ready and willing to be the dojo mascot of the month, and that's fine but the rest of the class doesn't need to be belittled and guilt tripped by such manipulative machinations and behavior. (yet this happens weekly at Boston Shinkendo).


Little shaffees Shinkendo past is also a checkered one.

He began in the NY Dojo under Sensei Lou. Sensei Lou is a well respected Sensei and honorable member of the Shinkendo community.

Apparently the two had a falling out and since I won't speculate on aspects I have not personally validated, I won't attempt to describe the nature of the dispute.

We do know that at one point little shaffee was forced to take a leave of absence from Shinkendo and has in my opinion, been trying to ass-kiss his way back into the good graces of Shinkendo leadership ever since.

So what do I mean by "ass-kissing" his way back into good graces?

I'll explain... little shaffee likes to portray his relationship with the Obata family as if he is some long lost son, loved by the family and well respected.

Well based upon what was observed by the Boston students when we visited with Obata at a seminar in Los Angeles, nothing is further from the truth.

We saw Kaiso Obata barely gave him the time of day, rather he spent a lot of time communing with the other "actually respected" sensei's who attended the seminar.

So little shaffee being the political schemer that he is, turned his focus to Yukishiro Obata.

Kaiso's son and Soke of Shinkendo world wide.

But to what end? Why all the political ass kissing and games? What does he hope to gain?

Well, little shaffee has this dream of being the "east cost" leader of Shinkendo in the USA, basically the go-too guy on the east coast.

Currently his former teacher Sensei Lou who runs a serious dojo in NYC, and has a large body of students that play a strong role in promoting ISF. He is the one who is a viewed as the senior regional leader by most of the higher ranking Senseis

Cheesy Motivations

More than anything many feel, little shaffee wants to be that guy!

So with Yukishiro Obata now running the ISF operations, and leadership, little shaffee has been waging a constant butt kissing campaign designed to make Yuki see him as a valuable leader in Shinkendo.

Everything that little shaffee does in the dojo appears designed to butt kiss to Yuki, for example, with the recent corona pandemic, little shaffee staged this virtual training session using video conferencing, no real sword training occurred, just some foot work and basics, but you can bet your ass little shaffee took a screen shot of the video conf. and plastered it all over the Boston Shinkendo Facebook page, so he can show Yuki what a "thought leader" he is, and how Boston Shinkendo is doing its part to fight the pandemic

LMAO, this stunt was so cheesy it resembled one of those McDojo karate schools sending out happy meal posts to all the parents of his kids class so they can praise him for being so nice.

Cheesy beyond belief! -But that example is only one of a thousand!

I will say this, having met Yukishiro and spent a couple of days learning from him, I found him to be an extremely intelligent, witty, and genuine guy. I find it VERY hard to imagine he would be duped by such flagrant cheese-ball like ass kissing that comes his way from people like little shaffee.

Behavior in the dojo

Most martial artists have either heard of, or had some bad dojo experience if they have been training for some time. These usually take the form of some overly aggressive instructor berating or belittling his students, and the Boston Shinkendo dojo has not been immune from this, many of its students have experienced this very thing for years.

For years you may ask? So why would you stay there for years if the sensei was such a raving nutball?

Well the answer is simple, there is no other licensed Shinkendo dojo in the New England area. So if you have time and investment in learning Shinkendo and you live in Boston, you are either stuck with little shaffee or your shit out of luck.

This is a truly unfortunate reality for Shinkendo students and Yukishiro Obata and ISF should consider licensing other dojos so students can learn in a true TANREN way, and not the bullshit little shaffee version.

In addition to this unfortunate reality, the core group of serious students had developed close friendships, attending dinners and parties at each others homes, restaurants, and other get together's.

This friendship was clearly despised by little shaffee. A man who needs to control all aspects of his students lives.... for example:

As a way of extending dojo outside of the physical school, little shaffee setup a WHATSAPP chat group. It was supposed to be a way to keep each other informed of any class updates, or issues, but soon descended into nothing more than people posting they will be late, or silly fist bump emojis and posts like #BRING IT over and over.

When the students setup their own non-dojo WhatsApp chat group for their non-dojo related conversations, he had a fit saying we must include everyone in our private group... I guess the notion of private is lost on this guy.

Every now and then little shaffee would try to post some pro shinkendo bulletin in his dojo chat group, that would be met by a chorus of "boot licker" responses from the newbies, thanking him endlessly for being their new god. (Which of course he ate up).

However, the students who had been around little shaffee for a while, well they knew better. They have experienced him YELLING and SCREAMING at the top of his lungs as his own kids, for 20 minutes straight in the middle of class, while having to stand there and witness this in silence and discomfort.

They were the ones to intervene when he chose to verbally attack a female student, a respected member of the class whom for some reason he decided was being belligerent, and disrespectful just because her facial reactions didn't display fear and awe of him.

He berated her, verbally humiliated her and threatened to kick her out of the dojo, all for reasons he never truly articulated. (other than her facial expressions).

Well the rest of the student body intervened on her behalf and made the peace, he agreed to let her back, but then proceeded to sadistically subject this poor girl to a series of ongoing humiliations. Including forcing her to write a letter of apology, and attend class for a few weeks while sitting on the bench embarrassed and ashamed.

But being a true warrior she invoked her inner Samurai, sucked it up and persevered, however she is the first to admit the student/teacher relationship has never been the same.

There was another time, when little shaffee was abusing this same female student in his typical voracious way, that another student, a woman in her 70s, (Yes I did say 70s)...

She broke down in tears, yelling at little shaffee to stop it, that he couldn't treat people that way.

It was her outcry finally forced loony little shaffee to back off.

The rest of us wimpy Shinkendo students did nothing to stop him.... Something I will be ashamed of for the rest of my life!

But Jeeeeez! I mean talk about Napoleon complex and megalomania!

Is this what the International Shinkendo Federation promotes?

I think not, I hope not!

I can't imagine Kaiso, or Yuki tolerating such behavior, and certainly can't imagine the other Shinkendo Sensei's having any respect at all for little shaffee when they learn about this one.

They don't have to take my word or this blog post as gospel, they can simply ask the people involved directly.

No one is going to lie for little shaffee.

I hope for the sake of all Shinkendo students that they look into the matter.

...continued in Part 2. Horror at Honbu Dojo

Also, please read my Blog post on SHINKENDO HERE <- this is relevant to later chapters in the series


*This will be the end of Part 1, the upcoming posts in the series will include the following:

Part 2. Horror at Honbu (the insane events that happened when the Boston Shinkendo dojo attended a seminar in LA) I think Kaiso will be mortified!

Part 3. Don't be a Boot-Licker (What really lead me to share these truthful experiences at Boston Shinkendo, and the adverse affect they have on the art itself).