I love the texture, but it took too much mass from this one. The next will be thicker.

So I just saw the newest video of Let's ask Seki Sensei (here), featuring what seems to be 2 new fuku shidoin trained through their online lessons, having atteined 3rd of 4th dan i think.

Rather than talking on what they say in the video, which is obviously promotional, can't blame them for that, i would like to know what you think of their level, since they're shown doing some iai katas in the video. They trained only through online zoom classes which many here would say isn't the best way to learn, or even a bad way to learn.

Do you see some obvious defaults in their technique, or does it seem they learned the correct way ?

And to finish, what do you think of online teaching by Seki Nobuhide ? Is it a good idea to develop and spread your ryuha ? And why ? Or is it "selling" the art, for visibility and money (rumors here tend to say Seki sensei doesn't have a really good view of strangers, according to comments on the Toda ha buko ryu imposture controversy...) ? Is 97$ a month for 4 1-hour lessons a good price ? In Europe for the pricing i know it seems really expensive but i saw some dojos in the US charge that much, how much does your learning cost ? Do you think you can learn all you would have to learn from a direct teacher-student teaching via online lessons ?

If someone here is currently attending those online classes i'd love to have an advice as i'm really curious about all of this and how good are these new fuku shidoin !