Kosho Kanayama : « Work and take care of your body »
7th dan, Teikyo University coach, Japan JKS manager and Japan Karate Shotorenmei instructor at JKS Honbu Dojo, Kosho Kanayama is one of the most comprehensive Sensei that Japanese and world karate possess. At 53, he was in France to give 4 days of intense training. An great opportunity to meet him and discuss Karate.
By Florian Fournier
Traduction : Hannah Jonhston
Photos : Xavier Vachy
Koji Arimoto "All students must have confidence in their Sensei and vice versa"
World champion in 2012 with the Japan Kata team, N°23 in the world ranking, Koji Arimoto, 3rd Dan, is not only a talented competitor, he is also a great Sensei in the making. At 26 years old, he is an instructor at the JKS Honbu Dojo (Japan Karate Shoto Federation). His Karate debut, his meeting with Sensei Sugimori, 8th Dan, and Shihan Kagawa, 8th Dan, his brilliant athletic career, his future... Koji Arimoto is speaking...
Takashi Yamaguchi : « JKS wishes to add traditional and modern Karate »
7th dan JKS, director of the international department of JKS, instructor at the Honbu Dojo, Takashi Yamaguchi is a field man, a field master. He is as great fighter as he is an outstanding technician. As a genuine pedagogue, he passes on his knowledge throughout the world. Met during a training stay in the Honbu Dojo, he tells us about his Sensei’s life between two "Keiko".
Shinji Nagaki : « At 8 years old, I already knew Unsu »
World Champion in 2004 (-70 kg), now JKS (Japan Karate Shoto-Renmei) instructor at the Tokyo Honbu dojo, Shinji Nagaki was in France for a seminar. The student of Masao Kagawa, 9th Dan, gives us his feeling about his discipline, the Olympic Games and tells us about his karate experience.
