In 1964, a Rock n' Roll band began kyokushinkai karate lessons at the Black Eagle Federation dojo in Utah. This full-contact form of karate was designed to fulfill the needs of the band members for self-protection while not on stage, since the band members were periodically harassed for having long hair (typical of the 60s). One member of the band continued a life-long affair with martial arts, later studying more than a dozen different types of martial arts, earning a number of black belts, and also teaching martial arts at commercial gyms, private dojo, a hombu dojo, and four major universities as kyoju no budo (martial arts professor). In the early 1990s, he was accepted as a member of one of the more prestigious martial arts associations (Juko Kai), and continued learning more and more traditional Okinawa and Japanese martial arts. Along the way, he was awarded some very prestigious awards as well as being inducted into several martial arts Halls of Fame and in 1999, he was certified as sokeshodai (first generation grandmaster) of Seiyo no Shorin-Ryu Karate Kobudo Kai. 
Soke Hausel, a professional musician, also became an astronomer, artist, geologist, author, and public speaker along with teaching martial arts several times a week. He still teaches three classes a week in Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona for friends and families. And in 2021, he is still a very active martial arts instructor after nearly 6 decades of martial arts training. Thanks to the blessings of God, he is very healthy and still loves to teach martial arts and search for gold and diamond deposits.
After closing the Arizona Hombu dojo in Mesa Arizona in 2021 because of the questionable pandemic, Soke Hausel looks to for his friends in Gilbert and Mesa Arizona three nights a week, to teach them traditional Okinawan martial arts including Shorin-Ryu Karate, Kobudo and Samurai arts along with self-defense.
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| Group photo at the Arizona Hombu dojo in Mesa, prior to the plandemic. Soke Hausel, judan, stands in the center with red belt |
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| Halloween at the Hombu in Mesa. |
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