Comments on: Secret Scrolls of the Warrior Sage

By: Everett

Everett — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:58:17 +0000

Thank you An-Shu for this finishing book to the series. All your previous works (books) have inspired me as well. Very well put together indeed. I look forward to my journey of training, and may you look forward to a great journey yourself for all the positive energy will come back ten fold.

By: Russell L Bailey

Russell L Bailey — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:45:00 +0000

Master Hayes, it was an joy to read this, thank you for all you have done for the art with such grace and honor. I as a former member of the Shadow of Iga am pleased with your works…

By: Daniel L Dunn

Daniel L Dunn — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:16:51 +0000

Thank you for all you continue to share. Every insight and word of encouragment I have gained from both yourself and Hatsumi Sensei has reassured me that I have indeed found the sources of the path that continues to help me along in the living and building of my will and dreams.

I anxiously await the day when I may finally meet the legends who have for so long inspired me.

Thank you again for everything.

By: Ken Wilson

Ken Wilson — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 02:05:14 +0000

I would like to wish you a happy birthday. Thanks for letting my son take our picture together at Karate College. It was a great honor to meet you. I really enjoyed the session you taught. I am very grateful you came to Karate College. Thanks also for your website. I did not know To-Shin do existed or that I can possibly learn the techniques via DVD. Thanks for all of your contributions to the Martial Arts.

By: lamar e presley

lamar e presley — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:21:13 +0000

I love it when my life’s circumstances, and encounters with others, offer the opportunity to share the language of the heart. Recently one such opportunity gave up the great gift of controlling the direction of positive mental and spiritual energy in a conversation with a young mixed martial arts enthusiast. In whatever path is chosen, let choose one that helps us to be more human. Thank-you for bringing us these lessons from the Great Authentic Masters of our beloved art. NO MORE PAPER DOJOS!

By: Jarren

Jarren — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:02:56 +0000

I have such a passion, such a desire to learn the way of ninjutsu, but there are no truely authentic schools in my area, I had started to doubt I would ever learn it. But the message above renewed my hope, and for that I am truely greatful

By: Dennis Mahoney

Dennis Mahoney — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:23:45 +0000

“How will you know when you have found the source for the answers to the burning questions churning in your heart?”

When I go to class in Boston on Friday night after more than twenty years of training in this art and realize every Friday I’m still a beginner. Thank you Mark, Thank you Mr. Hayes.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:50:44 +0000

Stephen your words are so insperational, Im 19 and I have been training in ninjustu privatly for 3 years under Eric Behlke in Spokane Wa. I find that this art teaches me to give recognition to emotions and feelings rather than brute force and athleticism. Which I have found to be directly controdictory to the “American” version of martial arts and orginized fighting. I am forever greatfull to the part you have indirecly played in my taking this path in life. I can only hope to one day train with such an idol

Happy Birthday and Best Wishes

By: Secret Scrolls of the Warrior Sage by Stephan K. Hayes « THE FITNESS HERETIC

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:36:28 +0000

[...] I had a hopelessly improbable goal in Japan, but I was driven by unstoppable intent. Like some tragic hero in an epic novel, I was ready to give up all in hopes of finding a master teacher who could reforge me into the man I longed to be, and I ended up plummeting through heart-tearing seasons of dark nights on my way to finding brightness. (read more) [...]

By: Anjin

Anjin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:23:01 +0000

I am only 2 years younger than yourself and unfortunately for me only discovered the Bujinkan’s Budo Taijutsu within the last five years when I got to meet Sensei Dennis Mahoney of New Hampshire and was shown the effectiveness of your art. Only within the last year have I begun to seriously study it. The time gap? It was spent reading your books, those of Hasume Sensei and Ben Cole (essentially the same thing). It is now something I intend to do for the rest of my life. It is also not just the physical, but the spiritual that draws me here. As you well know, strength of spirit will surely last longer than strength of the body.

I wish you a Happy Birthday and thank you for being the conduit through which this art ws revived in the U.S.