Formally trained in Shorinjin Ryu Saito Ninjitsu family arts, Mark continued to train and teach the family arts while living in the San Francisco Bay area in Mountain View and Palo Alto, and in Honolulu, Hawaii. One of those arts was an advanced form of Lomilomi massage that was taught to him by his father and also through the AJJF and the Seifujistsu DZR Restorative Massage. While training at his Dojo in Mountain View, he often had Uncle David Nuuhiwa come through to teach and share his knowledge of Martial Arts, Lua and Lomilomi.