His unique blend of martial arts mastery, meditation expertise, and pragmatic wisdom would surely captivate your listeners. Stephen K. Hayes was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Fairmont West High School in Kettering, Ohio, in 1967.[1] Hayes attended Miami University in nearby Oxford, Ohio, because he "heard they had a judo club".[3] It turned out to be a Korean Tang Soo Do school, not judo, but Hayes remained. In 1971, he graduated from Miami with a Bachelor of Arts degree, having majored in speech and theatre.[4] In the 1970s, Hayes traveled to Japan.[5] In June 1975, he met and began training under Tsunehisa Tanemura. He later trained under Masaaki Hatsumi,[6] who refers to himself as the 34th Grandmaster of Togakure-ryū ninjutsu and is the founder of the Bujinkan (武神館) organization. Hayes returned to the United States with his wife, Rumiko, in late 1980 when his Japan residency visa expired, and began teaching and authoring numerous books and magazine articles.[7]
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