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!
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