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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!