Thursday, January 18, 2018

Breaking Rocks - Arizona Martial Arts Instructor, Geologist & Author Loves to Teach


Gilbert geologist and author, has had his share of breaking rocks with his bare hands, or with a rock hammer while searching for golddiamonds, or colored (fancy) gemstones

He found dozens of deposits (sapphire, peridot, diamond, garnet, diopside, opal, the largest known iolite gems in the world, and possibly the largest iolite deposit in the world. He still thinks about that one gem he left in a rock outcrop in Wyoming: estimated to be the size of a smart car! Imagine wearing that on a necklace.

In-between mapping old mines, and a few hundred square-miles of complex geological terrain, the Arizona scientist published more than 1,000 professional papers, magazine articles, books, blogs, abstracts and geological maps. Being an author takes considerable time, and leaves him with little time to do anything else: well, not actually. He's a workaholic. In the past, he was a professional musician, artist, astronomer, and public speaker. In recent years, miracles have attracted his attention, and now he delves into Biblical archaeology and explores the science behind artifacts in the Bible. 

Back to breaking rocks! When teaching students to break rocks in martial arts classes and clinics, he also educates them in rock identification. 

When not breaking rocks with a rock hammer, Soke
uses his hands to break rocks at the Arizona
Hombu dojo in Mesa

Nearly two dozen Halls-of-Fame inducted him in the past and he is a Who's Who in Martial Arts. But he is not a fighter! Instead, he is a martial arts teacher. 

As a teacher, he taught hundreds of students at ASU, UNM, U of U, and University of Wyoming. Even though he accomplished a lot in his life in human terms, he thanks God for all of his blessings and for God's grace.






Teaching students to break rocks in front of the geology
department at the University
of Wyoming.

Demonstrating body hardening at a basketball game halftime with third
degree black belt Donnette Gillispie.



Ouch! Sensei Hausel
demonstrates body hardening (Juko Ryu
jujutsu) at halftime at the University
of Wyoming before a sellout crowd.