Boston Martial Arts Blog

  This notification was plastered on Boston Shinkendo Facebook page by some dumbass. It  states that they will be conducting tests on December 6th an (note the misspelling), 13th. The question we have is with almost all of the actual real students having dumped the Boston Shinkendo dojo, exactly who is going to be be reaching out? Is this guy in fantasy land? Or is he assuming that the small remaining amount of students and any uninformed new students will actually be testing?  What a sad sad story the Saga of Boston Shinkendo is. "Shafty, you really do stink"  according to former students.

  Well Toshishiro Obata gave it a good shot! In 30 years he was able to create and market a martial art he founded that was made up of techniques, and kata taken from Toyama Rya and other REAL Koryu styles like Shinkage Ryu. Shinkendo dojos are world wide, appealing predominantly to fat old white dudes with no real skills or martial ability, but love to dress up as wannabe samurai and post nonsense on Facebook.  ...You know the type. However Dojos are closing fast, places like modern Samurai dojo in NY, shut down, Boston Shinkendo all the students dumped the ahole sensei, and membership and dues are said to be down all around the world. Of course they try to blame covid, but is it something more than that? Is it the fact that people want to learn a REAL SAMURAI art and not some adapted crap? Is it becuase of stories of Horror Show treatment of students as what is reported about Boston? Is it about International Shinkendo Leadership not helping students who reach out to them with issues

  If you have been following all the nonsense at the International Shinkendo Federation Dojo in Boston, then you know the stories how lame a lot of former students feel it is. The vast majority of the long term students all quit because they feel it sucks! Recently a newer student also left in disgust and was asked by the instructor, aka "SHAFTY" to do an exit interview. An exit interview for a martial arts dojo? Is this guy a moron? Who does exit interviews for a Dojo? Most people don't even want to do them for a job where they worked for years. The mere fact that this idiot even made such a request goes to show how strange that place is run. What does he expect the students to say? Does he think they are going to help him do better? From what was reported to use, they can't stand the guy, they could care less about his crappy dojo getting better!  They just wanted to get as far away from the guy as possible! Ok Shafty, here some of the feedback they shared with us: