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.
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.
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