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While written in English, these verses have a clear Japanese style. Hayes became the first westerner in the history of the Togakure ninja clan to be awarded the title of Shidoshi or вЂњteacher of the warrior ways of enlightenment.вЂќ This book is a collection of his original writings and photos. Ninjutsu is a nine-hundred-year-old art of ninja combat based on silent movement and subtle combat. While there, he became the apprentice of a thirty-fourth generation Togakure ninjutsu grandmaster. The author is an American who traveled to the remote Iga region of Japan. His personal school вЂ“ SKH Quest To-Shin Do Central Training Headquarters вЂ“ is located in Dayton, Ohio. Hayes is Chairman of the Board of SKH Quest and a network of licensed affiliate schools around the world. Hayes taught as Adjunct Professor in the Masters of Business Management program of the McGregor School of Antioch University, and serves on the University of Dayton Crotty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership Advisory Council, and the Union Institute & University Center for Clinical Mindfulness and Meditation.ДЄn-shu Stephen K. He has worked on special assignments with the United States Department of State Dignitary Security Services, and under contract with the United States Defense Intelligence Agency. Air Force Academy, the FBI Academy, the American Society for Law Enforcement Training, and members of BritainвЂ™s elite SAS. Hayes has demonstrated self-protection combat skills to military and law-enforcement groups including the U.S. He went on to found the martial art of To-Shin Do in 1997 he and his wife Rumiko are both known as An-shu, founder-directors of the Kasumi-An. Hayes was awarded the extremely rare honor of Ninja Taijutsu Ju-dan 10th degree Black Belt in 1993. His 19 books have sold over 1 million copies вЂ“ many volumes published in different languages around the world, translating the timeless knowledge of the East into pragmatic lessons for contemporary Western life.

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People knew where I had trained, and I was happy to let my martial skill and knowledge determine any fame I might earn.вЂќДЇrom the 1980s right up to today, he has been featured in TV and film documentary projects with networks such as NBC, A&E, Discovery Channel, and Fuji TV вЂњSince I was the only one in the western hemisphere to have studied in the Togakure ninja martial arts school, I rarely wore my black belt. In the early 1980s, American ninjutsu students often trained outdoors in the woods and rocks and dust, and usually wore tough durable military style attire rather than traditional Japanese martial arts suits and belts. You can read the story of my search for the ninja dojo and how I got started training in Japan in The Ninja and Their Secret Fighting Art.вЂќ I found them and they accepted me as an uchi-deshi student in the grandmasterвЂ™s home dojo. Hayes stepped off a jetliner in Tokyo with the thinnest of hopes that he could find the Togakure ninja dojo. On a hot steamy July day in 1975, Stephen K. Too bad that martial art was not taught in my hometownвЂ¦вЂќ вЂњIncredibly inspiring lore! Painful to know that such an art existed and was impossible for me to learn.

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While a university student, he read a series of articles in Black Belt Magazine about JapanвЂ™s ninja phantom warriors he had first read about in a James Bond novel as a high school student.

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Students, readers, and seminar participants have reported that his teachings have brought them deep encouragement and empowerment, and inspired them to achieve new levels of success in their personal and professional lives. Promoting the benefits of Life Mastery Through Martial Arts, he travels the world as teacher, seminar leader, and lecturer, inspiring others by translating his extensive background in martial arts and meditation into practical lessons for handling the pressures and uncertainties of life. Hayes has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of perfection through the study of the Asian martial arts and spiritual traditions, living and traveling throughout North America, Japan, Europe, the Arctic, China, Tibet, Nepal, and India.

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