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Author’s Introduction
WHO I AM AND WHY YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THIS PROGRAM
My first memory of seeing martial arts was an early 1950s Lassie TV show. In total amazement, I watched a small Japanese boy use his martial arts training to defeat a gang of American schoolyard bullies, and then later restore the health of his tormentors. You can learn such power of making there be rightness, having the capacity for harming if forced, healing if permitted? My young spirit was electrified. I had to have that!
After years of longing, I finally began my martial arts training as a teen in the 1960s at Miami University, in Oxford, Ohio, studying with returning Vietnam War combat vets. I had thought I would be learning the grappling method of judo, but it turned out to be a form of karate striking and kicking. I took to the training with near religious commitment, and my martial arts training became a primary part of my personal identity. There is a science of combat that empowers a gentle-of-spirit person to defeat a rough and brutal antagonist when necessary? I had to have that!
Monk warriors on the Kung-Fu TV show inspired me in the early 1970s. They possessed enlightened spiritual intelligence coupled with compassionate care for others on one hand, and awesome physical protector powers on the other. There really is a tradition of mythic greatness based on timeless ideals of self-development and fullness of awakening human potential? Realms of mind and even spiritual power in the martial arts? I had to have that!
James Bond book and movie references to ninja as invisible warriors inspired me to search for new heights of training beyond physical toughness. I moved to Japan in the mid-1970s and was accepted for training in the home dojo of Togakure Ryu ninja grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi. All those martial art cliches about the power of mind being key to overcoming adversaries were really true, and facing hidden weaknesses in the depth of one’s own soul was the first step to learning how to find and exploit an enemy’s secret fears to paralyze him in combat? I had to have that!
Appalled that so few people would ever have access to what I had received through my ninja training in my teacher’s secret dojo with his fifteen students in Japan, I vowed to share the timeless knowledge with the world. I vowed to make my teacher internationally recognized and a warrior icon in the eyes of his students. I promised to make him financially wealthy as well, to repay him for what he gave me, even when others urged him to cut me off as a cultural and racial outsider. I had to do that!
I taught public seminars in the 1980s as a way to test my skills and knowledge. From what I learned through trial by fire, I transformed into actual combat-useful tools the stylized kihon classical fundamentals I studied in Japan. Somehow, in the midst of challenge, the ancient lineage spoke to me and guided me on to discover the power and principles deep in the secret heart of the forms.
During years of travel and teaching, I met many wonderful people. Famous martial arts icons saw my passion and offered guidance from their paths. Magazine editors and television producers invited me to featured positions in articles and programs showcasing my work. Thousands of people around the world joined my once solitary practice of the ninja combat methods, and many of those students in turn became masterful practitioners themselves.
I also learned much about the depraved and cowardly side of human nature in those years. I was challenged by the envious and betrayed by a few who resented the idealism, risk, and hard work that led to my success. No exaggeration—by the mid-1980s, government agents were investigating actual murder plots against me.
I retired from public attention in the late 1980s in a form of retreat, roaming the world in search of spiritual adventure. Through seemingly impossible coincidences, I ended up traveling regularly with His Holiness the Dalai Lama as a protective escort throughout the 1990s. I was moved and inspired by his authentic heroic presence, a kingly greatness I had sought since childhood. Encouraged by my first-hand experience of the Dalai Lama’s spiritual intelligence and compassionate care for all, I vowed to offer the highest ideals of the warrior path to other seekers like me.
Author Stephen K. Hayes served as personal security escort during Nobel Peace Prize Laureate His Holiness the Dali Lama’s American visits in the 1990s.
I founded a network of instructors in the 1990s for those who shared my passion for reaching the highest of human fulfillment by means of transforming the lowest of human instincts. Through realistic and honest training in how to defend against those degenerate enough to want to hurt others in order to feel pleasure, we can learn the principles for activating and unleashing the highest of our inherent human possibilities.
To provide western people the most useful and valuable personal protection training based on my study and testing of the historical Japanese ninja combat method, I had to do a lot of adapting. As a researcher, I enjoyed putting the historical puzzle pieces together to produce a useful defense method. At the same time, I knew very few people would be able or willing to spend years translating Japanese classics into modern western tools. In order to be of relevance in my home community, I had to adapt the ancient principles into a new and culturally relevant shape.
Fights in 1500s Japan were different from fights in 21st century America. Culture, laws, environmental factors—and even clothing of the time—influenced the development of Japan’s feudal age fighting systems. Some major differences from today are important:
