Bigshadow said:1. What rank is the instructor?
2. Does he/she have a current shidoshi-kai membership card?
3. How often does he/she travel to Japan and train with Hatsumi Soke and the shihan? If not, who do they train with that does?
4. Who is/was his/her instructor?
I don't know anything about them, but after looking over the site, I don't get a bad feel about them. They look like a typical Bujinkan dojo (if ninjas can be typical ) I don't see anything that would raise any red flags to me. I watched the few videos on the site and it looks like the same stuff. Of course I believe the videos have been online for quite sometime, I remember seeing them a couple of years ago.JeffJ said:
Jeff, there you have it! All things considered, it sounds like you are in close proximity to some good training.Don Roley said:Both Johnson and Hayes are pretty damn high up in the food chain. Both have shidoshikai cards and both travel to Japan enough for me to recognize their faces. Who they trained with first I don't know.
Johnson was featured in a issue of Hiden magazine and I was working out next to him the month it came out. When in a break the article was mentioned I said with a straight face, "until I read the article I never knew you worked your way through college clubbing baby seals." Without missing a beat he said, "that and a scholorship pretty much paid most of my tuition as well as giving me the skills to deal with students."
Great sense of humor.