A Martial Art Legend in Gilbert, Arizona

Soke posses while teaching tekko (Okinawan Horse shoes) 
during Shorin-Ryu Karate and Kobudo classes at the
Arizona Hombu dojo in Mesa, Arizona.

Grandmaster of Shorin-Ryu Karate & Kobudo taught karate, kobudo, samurai arts, self-defense, jujutsu, kempojutsu, sojutsu, self-defense for women, etc., for more than 30 years at the University of Wyoming. After retiring, he moved to the East Valley of Phoenix and relocated to Gilbert in 2007, and opened the Hombu Dojo. Hombu - the world headquarters of a Seiyo no Shorin-Ryu Karate Kobudo Kai.

Soke Hausel, nominated and selected for the Albert Nelson
Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

While at the University of Wyoming, he was certified as Professor of Budo (martial arts) by Juko Kai International, and taught martial arts classes and clinics in four colleges including Club Sports, Extended Studies, Physical Education and Kinesiology. Over the years, he was awarded nationally and internationally for his teaching recognized by the University President and the WyomingGovernor for outstanding contributions to martial arts and the education of a few thousand of students at the University of Wyoming. He was also a stand out in the geological sciences. He was known as a workaholic and a person who loved to help others.

Over the years, he was selected  recognized for lifelong dedication to martial arts, geology and writing and was selected for the Albert Nelson Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award and inducted into in Who’s Who in Martial Arts Legends in Washington DC, and was honored as an outstanding alumni of Who's Who in Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Students of all ages - from 10 to 100, learn karate and kobudo. Children train with a parent or grandparent.

Hausel trained a few hundred black belts around the world as well as hundreds of lower ranked students. Most are now productive members of society as engineers, scientists, physicians, accountants, priests, soldiers, mechanics, university faculty and staff, university students, school teachers, lawyers, nurses, pilots, etc. And many of have noted that their training in martial arts provided an advantage in their respective careers.

According to various researchers; training in traditional martial arts helps improve physical and mental conditioning in part due to better health, memory, concentration, and social skills through training in the traditional Okinawa Shorin-Ryu martial arts.

Hausel dreams that one day he will meet a benefactor as devoted as he, so a permanent martial arts school can be constructed to offer many different aspects of the traditional Okinawan and Japanese martial arts to the public in the Phoenix valley, and train people to respect others and be ethical, something that is not practiced by politicians.

In one recent (2018) US study reported by Dr. Ashleigh Johnstone from Bangor University, children between the ages of 8 and 11 were tasked with traditional martial arts training that focused on respecting others and defending themselves as part of an anti-bullying program. The children were taught to maintain a level of self-control in heated situations.

Researchers found martial arts training reduced the level of aggressive behavior in boys, and the boys were more likely to step in and help someone who was being bullied. Significant changes were not found in the girls’ behavior, possibly because they showed lower levels of physical aggression before the training than the boys did.

Interestingly, this anti-aggression effect is not limited to young children. A different research project found reduced physical and verbal aggression, as well as hostility, in adolescents who practiced martial arts.

Arizona's Hall-of-Fame Karate Instructor

Arizona Karate Instructor, Soke Hausel loves to teach martial arts and has been teaching for more than 40 years. Imagine learning karate from a Hall-of-Fame grandmaster, a grandmaster of Traditional Martial Arts. Imagine what this would do to your learning curve. All of this experience and expertise available to accelerate your martial arts training and skills. The Arizona School of Traditional Karate on the border of Mesa and Gilbert is home to this Hall-of-Fame martial artist.

Soke Hausel is not only a great martial artist, he is very good at several professions - so much so that Who's Who noted that he is a polymath. He was inducted into the 2013 and 2014 Who’s Who in America and 2013 and 2014 Who's Who in the World and appeared in several Who’s Who compendiums over the past two decades because of accomplishments as a martial arts instructor, scientist, writer, public speaker and artist. Who’s Who noted 2013 was the 10 year anniversary since he was initially inducted into Who's Who in the World and the 20th anniversary of his induction into Who's Who in the West and Who's Who in Science & Engineering.

Photo of Grandmaster Hausel (right) with friend of many years, Hanshi Ron Smith (10th dan) from
Virginia. Hausel met Hanshi Smith at a Juko Kai International Clinic in Florida more than
20 years ago and the two developed a close friendship. Photo taken at the New Braumfels, Texas
JKI clinic in 2013.

Professor Hausel looks forward to his students' progress. When he started teaching martial arts at the University of Wyoming in 1977; within a short time, his classes will filled: more than a hundred students signed up for Beginning Karate in the Department of Physical Education and Department of Kinesiology each semester, 22 students in Jujutsu classes (the maximum number of students allowed in both of these classes), dozens of students in self-defense, kobudo, rape prevention, self-defense for women and martial arts history classes in the Department of Extended Studies, and more than 150 students in the University of Wyoming Shorin-Ryu Karate in Club Sports.


2013 JKI clinic in New Braunfels, Texas. Soke Hausel with martial arts
colleagues Hanshi Kirby Roy and Hanshi Ron Smith to his left along with
his Seiyo Kai students who traveled from Phoenix, Chandler and Mesa
Arizona and from Gillette, Wyoming.

Many dozen of clinics taught to the public, staff, and faculty related to self-defense, jujutsu, samurai arts, karate, kobudo as well as special classes taught to the University ROTC and dance departments on his free time. This training led to international recognition to the University of Wyoming martial arts program which the program, Soke Hausel, and some students were presented national and international awards. Previously, he had taught karate at the University of Utah and University of New Mexico, and recently at Arizona State University.

He was asked if he considered himself a good fighter? He responded,"What does that have to do with martial arts? Personally, I see myself as good instructor and hope students agree".

Left to right - Bill Durbin, Ron Smith, Hausel and Jeff Goodwin at the
2013 JKI clinic.

According to Hausel, Durbin, Smith, Goodwin and also Kirby Roy (above)
are some of the best martial artists he has ever seen in his 5 decades of
martial arts.