Stephen K. Hayes
- Actor
- Writer
- Stunts
Stephen K. Hayes has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of
perfection through the study of the Asian martial arts and spiritual
traditions. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1949, and grew up
in Dayton, Ohio. He has lived and traveled throughout North America,
Japan, Europe, the Arctic, China, Tibet, Nepal, and India. A husband
and father of two daughters, he is a writer, teacher, and ardent
student of life. Stephen K. Hayes began his martial arts career in Ohio
as a teenager in the 1960s. In 1985, he was elected to the prestigious
Black Belt Hall of Fame, for his years of pioneering work introducing
the Japanese ninja martial arts to the Western world. In 1993,
Grandmaster Masaaki Hatsumi of Chiba-ken, Japan, awarded him the
extremely rare honor of ju-dan 10th degree Black Belt in the nine
historical traditions of the Bujinkan Dojo martial arts. Cited from
SKHQuest.com.
