Originally Posted by
Steve Delaney
1. Never heard of him or any mention of him in Japan.
2. There are no dan grades in Tenjin Shinyo-ryu
3. Massive amounts of spelling errors for someone claiming to be so high up the ladder.
4. Although Kubota Shihan in the Tenyokai has many foreign students and we all know or at least know of each other, I'm pretty sure the Shinyokai, run by Shibata s. has no foreign students in his line.
Thanks. That's very very helpful. I didn't think that there were Dan grades in Tenjin Shinyo-ryu and that's precisely one of the (several) things that made me suspicious.
Regards,
Jeffrey Luz-Alterman