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	Shinseido Shorin Ryu is a seamless blend of Shorin Ryu and Shorin Ryu.   Shinseido is a contemporary way of viewing and realising an old classical martial arts system in a way that makes it valid in our time and place.  Where Shorin Ryu deals with the practicalities of self-defence in old Okinawa, Shinseido deals with the practicalities of  of self preservation in the UK today.
	This is how it happened...
	In 1976, I was invited to deliver a self-defence workshop as part of the District Nurse course at Croydon College, Surrey, UK.  Although the training was successful and led to many more such workshops, I became very much aware that 'self-defence' was far wider in scope than merely having the skill to deal with physical assault.
	As a result, there followed a period of intensive development in which I studied aggression and violence, its nature, background, causes, and management in very broad terms taking me well outside the scope of martial arts of the time.
	As time passed, every workshop that I delivered changed in content and nature, until, in 1980 I had evolved a complete management of aggression package, which was as far as I am aware, the very first of its kind in the UK.  I delivered these workshops with my wife of the time, Ann.  They were called the Sheldon Self-Preservation Workshops and attracted much media attention.  They became so popular that Ann and myself toured the UK, going to places such as Dover, Aberdeen, Plymouth, Exeter, Preston and Scunthorpe, to mention but a handful of the dozens of towns we visited.  We trained all the Health and Safety Officers for the Royal College of Nursing, and staff teams in many diverse professions, from nursing, police, prison, probation, mental health, and schools.  These were the halcyon days of what came to be known as the Project 5 Peaceful Response System for Managing Behaviour that Challenges.  Today, more than thirty years later, I still provide Project 5 training.
	It was as a result of my research and development around the Project 5 system, that I gradually became aware of its significance within my martial arts.  For a long time I ran my martial arts and the Project 5 system separately.  But as time passed I realised that I couldn't keep them apart.  Inexorably they became fused into a single holistic (I prefer 'wholistic') system.
	In part this was because I find it difficult to separate anything from anything else.  My training has led me to view everything in existence as being on a continuum with everything else.
	In 1988, my colleagues and students had bestowed upon me the given name of 'Shinsei'  (Born of Truth and Reality) because of my long quest to find the truth behind my martial art and to base what I do in reality.  Partly as a result of this, I began using the name 'Shinsei-do' (The Way Born of Truth and Reality) to describe my personal 'style' of, and approach to martial arts in 1998.  This, because I felt I could no longer justify using the name Matsumura Seito to describe what I was doing despite the fact that my quest had always been to "reverse engineer" my martial art into that which I perceived as coming from Bushi Matsumura.
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