Rebel Isshinryu: The 57 Challenges: Exploring Karate Myths, Madness and Mysteries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780979269752)

Shifu Hayashi Tomio, Wind School headmaster, 8th dan, has been a career sensei for over forty-six years. He is the author of; Internal Karate: Mind Matters and the Seven Gates of Power, The Soul Polishers Apprentice: A Martial Kumite About Personal Evolution, The Wind Warrior: Training of a Karate Champion, and Smart Moves, A Kid's Guide To Self Defense. He founded the Martial Art Directory Association of New Jersey in 1984, which published A Guide To The Martial Arts of New Jersey (1984). He has published many articles and teaching stories in trade magazines. Hayashi was one of twenty-five professionals selected to express his training philosophy in the book, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching (Frog Ltd.) Hayashi is the inventor of the strategy martial art card game, Grand Master. He has appeared in the third edition of Who's Who in American Karate and Who's Who In The East for his martial contributions and on cable television and radio demonstrating and discussing martial arts. He has studied numerous martial styles. He serves as senior counsel for the Mushindo Kempo Association in the USA and is a senior Buddhist Bodhisattva Warrior Monk in the Buddhist Chen Yen Shingon Mikkyo sect. Hayashi began his karate training in 1968 at the International School of Judo and Karate in Summit, New Jersey. After graduating Fairfield University in 1973, with a BS in Business Administration, he became a senior instructor for the Isshin Kempo Association, which grew into one of the East Coast's largest karate organizations during the 1970s. Hayashi became the system's successor in 2000. Hayashi serves as an Adjunct Lecturer in Physical Education at Drew University where he has taught karate since 1984. He offers an extensive knowledge of martial technique, principles, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysical insights, which he shares through his intimate, compassionate, and dynamic teaching approach. As well as being a popular New Jersey teacher, Hayashi is a proponent of the many benefits of traditional karate training.