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Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Arizona's Top Martial Arts Teacher

Soke Hausel of Gilbert, Arizona loves teaching martial arts.
Photo shows Hausel with black belt Jason Gies, demonstrating
jujutsu techniques to faculty, staff and students at UW. Photo 
courtesy of the University of Wyoming.

Hall-of-Fame martial artist Soke Hausel loves to teach people martial arts and has trained in martial arts all his life! He began training in karate in 1964 at the Black Eagle Federation kyokushin karate dojo in SLC, Utah. Later, he taught karate at the University of Utah,  University of New Mexico, ASU, and taught karate, kobudo, self-defense, jujutsu, and samurai arts at the University of Wyoming. Certified in more than a dozen martial arts, he focuses on traditional Shorin-Ryu karate and kobudo and Juko-Ryu samurai arts in the East Valley of Phoenix.

Those who are interested in traditional martial arts, are welcome to contact Soke Hausel by email at sokeshodai@yahoo.com. Classes are Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays each week at 6:30 to 7:30 pm. 

Soke retired from the Wyoming Geological Survey at the University of Wyoming, and taught martial arts for 35 years while researching gemstone, gold, diamond, and greenstone belt deposits, before moving to Gilbert Arizona. Over the years, he taught a few thousand students from all over the world the martial arts. 

Soke Hausel teaching an advanced karate clinic - Hakutsuru Shorin-Ryu - karate of the
White Crane, at a clinic at the
 University of Wyoming.
(photo courtesy of the University of Wyoming).