How many Shindo Muso Ryu members are there?
The numbers of members has dwindled and it would be difficult to find more than 300 competent Shindo Muso Ryu members worldwide. @ There are fewer than 20 Menkyo Kaiden, and the quality may not be what it used to be. Why? Because in many dojos today it is sufficient to know form, rather than both form and effective function. @ The 1960`s was perhaps SMR`s “Golden Period” with more than 3,000 regularly practicing members. With the death of Shimizu Sensei, the insular nature of the succeeding leaders like Otofuji Sensei separated the foreigners from the mainstream. The increase in TV, computers, video games, and other past-times give people more variety and choice in how they spend their free time. The combination of these two facts is the reason that Shindo Muso Ryu is a dying art.
