10/08/2025
Shotokan Karate Magazine Issue 165 SEPTEMBER 2025
FEATURES:
The first interview in this edition features KWF Chief Instructor Sensei Masamichi Otsuka 6th Dan. A protégé and long time student of the legendary Mikio Yahara Shihan. Otsuka sensei comes across as a very humble, quiet individual. However, as you will read in the interview, he is quite the opposite when it comes to his karate. He is deadly serious about training with 100% effort in all techniques, kihon, kata and kumite. Although still only 42 years old, Otsuka sensei has a long pedigree in karate, starting from the age of five under the strict eyes of his father, also a Shotokan sensei.
Our second interview features Sensei Errol Mahoney 5th Dan JSKA based in Florida, USA. Errol spent several years training in Japan while stationed at the Yokota Air Force Base in Tokyo.
Other Articles include:
• Origins of Jiyu Kumite: By Graham Noble
• Has The Title–‘Sensei’ Got out of Hand? By John Cheetham
• Bunkai: To Analyse – To Breakdown: By David Stainko
• Kaeshi Ippon Kumite: By Martin J Smith
• Periodisation of Training for Non-Competitive Karateka: By Paul Dowell
Good Health, Good Training.
Editor.
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