Age: 77
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Toshishiro Obata is the founder of Shinkendo. He is well known in Japan as a tameshigiri champion for several years in a row and is an authorized shitoka. He studied aikido under Gozo Shioda in the Yoshinkan Honbu Dojo, and studied the sword arts of Nakamura-ryu, Ioriken Battojutsu, Toyama-ryu, Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, Kashima Shin-ryu, Ryukyu Kobudo, and others. He moved to America in 1980 to start teaching and to develop his own sword art, based on his extensive experience. In 1990, the International Shinkendo Federation was officially established. The federation has grown to 80 branches internationally, and continues to expand. Obata, as the founder of the school, is referred to as Obata Kaiso by his students, and continues to travel across the globe to hold seminars for his students around the world. Since 1986, Obata has appeared in several Hollywood films.
Many Eons Ago In Japan a Man Named Hamato Yoshi was part of a ninja clan known as the foot, but one man observed his leadership named Oroku Saki after he was banished Yoshi lived in the sewers with the Rats When a Boy Dropped the Turtles they Landed on Yoshi they became his pets, then a strange ooze dropped on the turtles knowing they would be outcasts splinter trained them in the art of ninjitsu The Turtles gave him the name Splinter and He Named the turtles after his favorite artists Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael together they would find the ooze and make there master human once more. But Oroku Saki had changed he became the shredder with a pink brain named krang a mutant rhinoceros named bebop and a mutant pork named Rocksteady (two loyal followers of Shredder) Plan to destroy the earth using the technodrome, but the turtles will stop him and his gang from destroying the earth.
