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In a recent interview with a "former"  Boston Shinkendo student we discussed the Katana skills of the instructor and students. Here is his opinion of the skill level at that dojo: "Ok, let me first say this, splitting that lame dojo and getting far away from that idiot shafty was the smartest thing I have ever dumb. Joining that school in the first place was clearly the dumbest. We all make mistakes and you learn from them I guess... I won't go on about all the things that in my opinion suck about that school, there are tons of those reports all over social media. I will talk about a time back in 2019 when we did a Tameshigiri exercise in the dojo, this was before the infamous nightmare Horror at Honbu Dojo trip. Shafty was billing this day as some great favor to the students and how it was a such a great honor for us to be cutting wet tatami mats for the first time under his great tutelage. The reality was he was looking to plaster another marketing video all over

  For some very strange reason little shifty the infamous and despised instructor at the widely hated dojo Boston Shinkendo, Seems to believe he stands to gain by posting bogus yelp reviews and or having his students like James, a.k.a. Jimmy Yelpster Post clearly marketing style pro BS Dojo reviews! Do they put that much stock in Yelp as a way to bring students to what many feel is the absolute worst Dojo in all of New England and  probably the United States of America? Does idiot Shafty think even posting a thousand Fake Yelp reviews is going to stop people from learning the real experiences of students there? That dude is delusional and so are his boot lickers. Here is a screenshot of Jimmy Yelpsters latest nonsense touting little Shaffee‘s crappy Dojo. You will notice from His previous fake post that they like to hit on a common theme, that Boston Shinkendo is. Family dojo..... yeah right,  a dysfunctional family is more like it. Fact is Jimmy Yelpster left BS to study Tenshin Ryu (

What can be more wretched than a dojo that professes to be "Authentic Japanese" posting silly "Heart Felt" nonsense on Twitter and other social media sites in an attempt to give people the sense that the school has positive values? There are actual RESPECTED WEBSITES that have full expose's and articles about this very dojo. Here are are few from www.WayOfBushido.com : BostonShinkendo Toxic Sensei Horror At Honbu Dojo Don't be a Boot Licker Boston Shinkendo Scandals Idiotic Boston Shinkendo Statements Get the Truth about Boston Shinkendo Online Gathering of Disappointed Boston Shinkendo Students These are just a small handful of articles and threads about this school. Martial Artists should do their homework about any dojo because you just never know how desperate and deranged some can be. Be safe fellow artists!

By now, anyone even remotely familiar with all the idiotic antics that occurred regularly at the Boston Shinkendo Shoshinkan dojo , knows that the Sensei there is a bit of a dumb ass. He is known as Boot Licker Shafteee for his idol worship of the guy from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... One day after a boring class and the obligatory circle of students, the time Shafteee used to pontificate about his own self perceived importance, students were talking about the construction of Japanese Katana. Well old Shit-For-Brains-Shafteee told the students that Obata was the one who invented the use of (2) two mekugi pins to hold the tsuka (handle) in place. LMAO, despite the fact that you can find thousands of photos of ancient swords, going back hundreds of years with two Mekugi pins, this dumb ass claims Obata invented it... It doesn't get much dumber than this guy! Idiot Sensei - Boston Shinkendo - Obata - Ninja Turtles - Dumbass Shinkendo - Jinsei My Ass - Boston Martial Arts - McDojo -

Thousands have read the articles about Boston Shinkendo on the well respected website www.wayofbushido.com But we had the opportunity to speak with a former student a from this dojo about her experience training there. Interviewer : So is Boston Shinkendo really that bad? Student : Yes! I really tried hard to be opened minded about the dojo and Shaffee the Sensei, but I was Never comfortable there, and the training felt like it was going nowhere. I: How was the curriculum? S:Terrible, very inconsistent, no set pattern, and very chaotic instruction I: Was the Sensei good at Shinkendo? S: We thought so at first until we went to Honbu dojo and  saw that every other Sensei there was better than him, even students from other schools were far better. I: Are the stories about him yelling like a lunatic at his kids true? S: All true, he would come late to dojo, start nit picking on the students yelling at his two kids, complaining about nothing, saying we were disrespecting him all the time, a

Unhappy Boston Shinkendo Students Ditch Sensei for regular Virtual Training Looks like these folks had enough of drama at Boston Shinkendo and are doing their own regular meetups to train Japanese sword without all the insanity. Way to go students!!!!!! Boston Shinkendo - Shinkendo Shoshinkan - Tameshigiri - Japanese Sword - Bujitsu - Boston Martial Arts - Koryu Kenjutsu - Self Defense Schools