We visited Yushin Okami at RJW (Real Japan Wrestling, part of the Wajutsu Keishukai network) where he trains several days a week to interview him and watch him take the MMA class with some of the resident professional and amateur fighters.
RJW is located in a very unlikely spot. A residential area of Tokyo, on a converted floor of a condominium, rather hard to find for anyone unfamiliar with Tokyo or the Japanese language.
MMA-in-Japan.com went along to Wajutsu Keishukai’s A3 gym in Wako-shi to see Rikuhei Fujii, the new Pancrase Middleweight Champion, do his strength and conditioning workout, and we were lucky to get the chance to ask him a few questions afterward.
Fujii trains at A3 but is often at Wajutsu Keishukai’s RJW gym training under Yushin Okami. Recently crowned the middleweight King of Pancrase Fujii is an up-and-coming fighter with experience in the ring and the cage (Cage Force) and can be seen in the corner of Okami when he fights in the UFC.
Check the video and interview!
Having recently been invited to train at the RJW (Real Japan Wrestling) branch of Wajutsu Keishukai (WK) where there are some notable fighters, including Yushin Okami who has been fighting in the UFC, it was too good an offer to miss. I had trained at the Wajutsu Keishukai main gym in Ochanomizu back in 2002 but
