Boston Martial Arts Blog

  Well it appears there will be a light at that end of the tunnel for prospective students of Japanese swords arts in Boston, with upcoming New England Museum of Martial arts and Budokai. The NEMABU association is actively seeking a location for their post pandemic museum and dojo to be operational in early 2021. NEMABU is slated to be a full blown museum showcasing martial arts arms and armaments from Japan, China, Korea, and South East Asia, with a strong focus on Japanese Samurai culture, history and the crafts work involved with forging swords and armor. Visitors will get to see both antique weapons, as well as modern versions, with interactive video experiences, and scheduled workshops and demonstrations. How Japanese swords are forged, tested, as well as demonstrations from Chinese Kung fu masters. The associated dojo will be in the connected room, and the plan is for regular training schedules in several Japanese Koryu arts, including sword, hand to hand, archery, and long weapo

  By now there has been so much chatter and so much reporting on what many see as utter shamefulness, stupidity, and nonsense at this ISF licensed dojo, that most people reading this article probably won't be surprised to learn that almost all of his former students gave little shafty the finger when he made a roundabout plea to them via txt msg and private calls. Here are some of the threads of interest: Boston Shinkendo Strikes Back!  -This is a MUST READ! Shinkendo USA on Facebook Dojo Watch on Facebook Boston Martial Arts Review on Facebook Not too mention these classic tell all stories posted on the very well respected Martial arts blog  www,WayofBushido.com Boston Shinkendo Toxic Sensei Boston Shinkendo Horror at Honbu Dojo Boston Shinkendo Don't be a Boot Licker! However recently Little Shafty reopened his dingy little dojo in Bostons Chinatown district, he was probably all excited because his main rival and respected Dojo Modern Samurai in NYC was struggling due to the

Boston Shinkendo Students hold annual Summer party but ditch the lame Sensei! It was reported to be a FULL HOUSE of current and former Boston Shinkendo students who attended their annual summer barbecue this year. The party is usually a festive one with good food, and special activities, last year we are told it was a blacksmithing event, this year was a full on Tameshigiri party. Conspicuously absent from the party was Shaffee aka "Little Shafty" and this was by design.  This sensei is so despised and disliked by current and former Boston Shinkendo students that they all voted to DITCH him and not send an invite to him or his kids. The feedback was that the party was the 'best ever" some of the comments reported to us were: "Our Tameshigiri cuts were spot on since we self trained and dump all that crap Shafty tried to teach." "So much more fun this year without all that Shaffee drama" "I feel like my cutting and skills got better stince I st

So it looks like the Shinkendo Shit-for-brains Sensei in Boston just doesn't get it. Hey Shafty, don't you get it? Your students didn't join a cult, they just wanted to learn the crappy style of Shinkendo, they didn't sign up to follow your commands or have you sticking your nose in their personal lives. So who are you down to? The BringIT Bufoon? You got "Yelpster" kissing your ass until his real dojo opens back up, you got a couple of young newbies who hate you, an 70 year old woman and Dr J.  I bet many in the ISF secretly think your a dumbass, your kids probably loathe you. Face it dude, you are just not cut out to run a dojo. Face it dude, you are just not cut out to run a dojo. YOU SUCK! #shaftysucks @yukishiroObata @shinkend_Boston @Shinkendo @Jinsei @Honbu Dojo @Boston Martial Arts @tameshigirl @fake koryu @crap dojo

Emails, comments and discussions continue to be had about the infamous Boston Shinkendo Dojo and its Sensei, "Little Shafty"   ( one whom many describe as a loon ), are all over Social media. So we thought we would interview some former students and caught up with several of them this past weekend at one of the "Gathering of Former Shinkendo Students". Here is some paraphrasing of what we learned. 1.)  "I remember we used to do an annual Christmas party and Shafty would setup a table in the dojo with himself at the head, and he would first put on this brown Kimono type vest and array himself as if he was a feudal lord. He would them preside over the party with pseudo Japanese mimicked pomp and circumstance, making a total BUFFOON out of himself. The students REALLY HATED all this nonsense and would laugh for hours about it often chatting in their WhatsAPP group about what a clown Shafty is." 2.) " I donated a few boxes of Tatami mats to the dojo becau

Well according to some former Boston Shinkendo students it sure does! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muSJ20BZmFQ 9 Worth a watch! #Shinkendo #boston Shinkendo #Shinkendo sucks #shafty sucks #bringIT #martial arts #obata #tameshigiri #jinsei shinkemdo #asswipe #crap dojo #yuki is nuts # Toshishiro Obata

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