Day began his studies with Okinawa-trained Karate Master Jack Johns,
learning control of both the body and the mind. He spent the next years training, attending college, coaching soccer, writing, and studying spiritual healing.
During this time, Day met Ruth Stillman, a deeply spiritual, highly respected Esoteric Section-trained Theosophist, 50 years his senior, and she opened up the world of mysticism to him. She then introduced him to author Evelyn “Grandmother Eve” Eaton who wrote three of her 24 books about her journey into shamanism.
Eaton invited Day to the Owens Valley where he met the esteemed Northern Paiute medicine man “Grandpa Raymond” Stone, and attended his sweat lodge and
another at the Tule River Reservation.
Day spent three extremely intense years going through the
Northern Paiute Sweat Lodge rituals, training to be a medicine man/healer
with “Grandmother Eve” and “Grandpa Raymond."
In December of 1995, Day was introduced to wheelchair fencing. In 1997, he was
U.S. National Champion in Men’s Wheelchair Epee Fencing
and competed for the U.S. in the 1998 and 2002 World Championships.
He was a member of the 2000 U.S. Olympic/Paralympic Team
that competed in the Sydney Games and was invited to the White House to be congratulated by President Clinton. After the Games, he went to Cairns where,
as a certified scuba diver, he had four life-changing dives
experiencing the profound beauty of the Great Barrier Reef.
In 1998, Day began studying Kenpo Karate with the late Master Robert Quinn, spending 10+ years earning his 3rd Degree Black Belt, a master ranking.
Under Master Quinn’s guidance, he developed Ropo Kenpo (the rolling power of Kenpo used in the We Defend System), which he details in his book,
Crime and the Disabled.
Day has authored several works: an anthropology thesis on shamanism,
an autobiography in three books of poetry, a shamanic novel,
a targeted self-help resource about crime and the disabled,
and his We Defend System of Self-Defense training manual.
His latest book is drawn from his own personal experience defeating bladder cancer, using the ketogenic diet,
in unison with the best of modern medicine,
and a combination of physical and psychological exercises.
