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Shifu Hayashi Tomio (Christopher J. Goedecke), Wind School headmaster, 8th dan, has been a full time, career sensei for over fifty-three years. He is the author of numerous books including, Kiko: Hidden Power—Electric Moves, Rebel Isshinryu: The 57 Challenges and Internal Karate: Mind Matters and the Seven Gates of Power. He founded the Martial Art Directory Association of New Jersey which produced A Guide to The Martial Arts of New Jersey (1984). He has published articles and stories in trade magazines as well as being featured on the cover of Masters Magazine in 2024. Hayashi was one of twenty-five professionals selected to express his training philosophy in the book, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching and in the book, Total Karate: Conversations With The Modern Masters. Hayashi also invented the strategy martial art card game called, GrandMaster. He has appeared in Who’s Who in American Karate and Who’s Who in The East and on podcasts, television, and radio for his martial contributions. He has studied Okinawan Isshinryu, Yang style Tai Chi, Aikido, and is a noted expert in Kiko or Internal Karate-Dō technique. He serves as senior counsel for the Wu Shin Tao and is an ordained Buddhist Bodhisattva Warrior Monk in the Chen Yen Shingon Mikkyo sect.

Goedecke began karate training in 1968 at the pioneering International School of Judo and Karate in Summit, New Jersey (see: The Isshin Kempo Way, Masters magazine, summer, 2013). After graduating Fairfield University in 1973, with a BS in Business Administration, he became a senior instructor for the Isshin Kempo Association, one of the East Coast’s largest karate organizations during the 1970s. Goedecke became the system’s successor in 2000.

Goedecke served as an Adjunct Lecturer in Physical Education at Drew University where he taught karate from 1984-2020. He offers an extensive knowledge of martial technique, principles, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysical insights, which he shares through his intimate, compassionate, and dynamic teaching approach. Goedecke is a noted New Jersey teacher and a proponent of the many benefits of traditional karate training.