Ours is the only correct method!!!!

I don’t think Miyagi Sensei’s karatedo was ever intended to be a finished product.  He appears to have been constantly evolving with diffierent students learning different variations at different times.  There’s no problem with this, as if anything it provides us with a decade by decade guide as to what was going through Miyagi Sensei’s mind.  The sad thing is now that the decendants of his students now all swear that their own method is the correct way and that everyone else has been taught wrong, or has changed/misunderstood/forgot what was learned.
The thing is though, this sort of hype sells, right?  There’s always going to be a market of people who are willing to follow blindly and believe whatever they are told as long as it’s coming from an Okinawan source who can vaguely be traced back to the founder. 
This type of thing is further fuelled by some of the video producers who encourage this sort of behaviour in order to shift a few more copies of the latest DVD claiming to reveal the ‘true secret teachings’.

I love Motobu Sensei’s book, and the fact that he chose to call it watashi no karate - ’my karate’.  At the end of the day, thats all it is – his karate.  The title suggests to me that he couldn’t care less what everyone else was up to.  He found value in studying what he knew, and studying it deeply. 
In karatedo we have been left a set of tools and its left completely up to us what we build with them.  We can either copy every other house in the street or build something that has value to us. 
Its all down to what people want out of their training, whether its for recreation or for budo.  If it is for budo then it’s our absolute responsibility to question everything about our art and have a reason, as without reason we are just following blindly without purpose.