Grand Master Stephen K. Hayes: Ninja Vanishing Defense Part 2

Grand Master Stephen K. Hayes: Ninja Vanishing Defense Part 2
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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. He began formal training in the martial arts as a teenager in the mid-1960s.
Hayes attended Miami University in nearby Oxford, Ohio, reportedly because he "heard they had a judo club". 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 theater.
In the 1970s, Hayes traveled to Japan to seek out authentic ninja masters. In June 1975, he met and began training under Tsunehisa Tanemura and then after Tanemura left Masaaki Hatsumi, who refers to himself as 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.
In 1985, he was entered into the Black Belt magazine's Hall of Fame as Instructor of the Year.[8] He was again featured on the cover of Black Belt in the March 2007 issue; which contains a chapter from his book Ninja Vol 6, Secret Scrolls of the Warrior Sage. The magazine's opening editorial described him as "one of the 10 most influential living martial artists in the world".
In 1993, Hayes was awarded the rare judan (tenth-degree black belt) in Togakure-ryū ninjutsu from Hatsumi.
In 1997, he founded the martial art of To-Shin Do, an art based in his experience of budō taijutsu.
In 2006, Hayes's name was removed from the display of active Bujinkan teachers, ending his official role within that organization. That his name plank was removed from the Bujinkan Honbu wall has been documented by both parties. However, the specifics regarding the motivation for the removal are in dispute. Some suggest Hayes was expelled from the organization. Hayes explains that he simply no longer participates as an active Bujinkan instructor. To-Shin Do is taught through his SKH (Stephen K. Hayes) Quest locations. The SKH Quest network now spans 31 schools across North America, Europe, Australia and Africa. Teacher of the ninja master of Maui Hawaii Shihan Jonathan Allen.
Links:
Ninja Self Defense: www.ninjaselfd...
Facebook: / anshustephenkhayes
Twitter: / stephenkhayes

[@DanielleSainteMarie]

Stephen K Hayes is brilliant, and a nice guy to meet and train with. I know this from experience.

[@Thes564]

It is such an honor to see master Steven Hays on video after having had all of his books from the 80 s of which 8 of my friends and myself trained out of for years.

[@claredin]

What makes Stephen K Hayes legit (I bought his ninja books as a kid, too, and I'm a girl!) is his keen awareness of where his body is at all times. I'm a yoga teacher and I study body movements. This man moves like a good yoga teacher.

[@Carriesaglock]

I remember this guy from when I was a kid from the magazines.

[@bajuszpal172]

Grandmaster Stephen K. Hayes is right in offering basically a sidestep against a linear combination of hand attack.The safer way is to step off the line to the beginning, thus the attacker first hand is becomes a barrier to the second one. The same applies to fighting a group, where escaping sideways yields only on enemy to face making him a shield against the others. Hopefully thatś not all.However good reflexes are needed. Paul,68, retired instructor of Karate.

[@合氣道学生]

Very impressed with this

[@Dan.50]

Only Ric Flair can wear a gold belt!

[@stevek.hayesmma7334]

Anyone have ACTUAL full contact with this dude..? I'm betting NOT ....and we all know why.....cuz IT DONT WORK

[@Trabbit23]

Ohh that's funny how you think just because its not used for sparring doesn't mean it's not battle tested have you even dug deep into the history of the martial art or experienced it yourself of course not 😂 because you probably think that way with every martial art that's actually developed for self defense of course you would say this will not work so my question is how do you know???🤔

[@Mrkalm007]

@@Trabbit23 Er..What! Just because something may have been battle tested in the past does not mean it will work. You need to battle test it with resisting opponent or through sparring. Its just more pretending with added cosplay

[@LINKchris87]

Well general rule is never to trust ninjutsu but at least Hayes trains against punches that seem a little less absurd than the ones you see in the typical ninja vids.

[@slackdave]

Yeah.. That was nice to see.. In one example. Guy throws punch.. and then another one.. Not just Throw punch get blocked and stand around and wait till you get put on the floor..

[@brianbrownthingstothinkabo4715]

would have given any thing to train and learn.

[@timbabyok5229]

Ninja vanishing defense 🤣

[@stevek.hayesmma7334]

This ONLY works with his trained students... lol. Oh, and 1960s black belt movies

[@GGGeraldson]

Uh sure, okay. I don’t know…I think I know more than a few non martial artists that could beat up this dude. Any trained boxer or kick-boxer would take this guy too.

[@scottashe984]

He 72 years old.

[@pentagram4745]

Yeah more bullshido.