JKfan - Monthly Karate Magazine 2023/5

Prestigious Dojo
Practice Menus
Exploring

The popular series "Exploring the Practice Menus of Strong Dojos" is now running. In
response to requests from readers who wanted to know what kind of training is being
conducted at strong dojos, this series has appeared for less than three years since the July
2020 issue, featuring about 30 dojos across Japan that are known as strong dojos. This
series of features will come to an end with two more dojos. This issue features Wado-kai
Mino in Gifu Prefecture. Wadokai Mino is active in six locations: Aikawa, Nagamori,
Unuma, Mino-kamo, and Yamagata, in addition to the main dojo in Mino City. In
competitions, the dojo has produced many national tournament winners every year. In
this issue, we asked Sensei Akiyoshi Yamaguchi, the representative of Aikawa Dojo, to
introduce some of the essentials of his daily practice, particularly strengthening reaction
and response skills in kumite, which will give readers hints for their daily practice menu.