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Many of these people have excellent technical ability and can teach quite well. Since the premise of budo is supposedly self improvement, I would expect someone after a lifetime of budo practice to statistically be a better person than the average person. Perhaps "faulty" people are drawn to budo and see it as a means to fix those faults, but I am still wondering where these "better" people are. That depends upon what you consider "budo". I also have run across some examples of poor behaviour. However, in the koryu arts, indeed in most Japanese sword arts dojo that I am familiar with, such behaviour is not tolerated. I know of more than one instructor that has been summarily tossed from their organization for their behaviour.

Budo is what you make of it. If someone is content to study with self proclaimed "masters", then they shouldn't expect to learn much about budo. Working hard with a worthwhile instructor is what puts the "do" in budo.