* Tetsuya Yamato belongs to Yamato-gym, so "Yamato" is not his real name but just a ring name. (real name is Iwashita)
Yamato gym in Holland?
Any other good camps to investigate?
Here's a cool blog that details many gyms in Japan and which notable fighters train at each one:
http://skillmma.blogspot.com/2010/07/japanese-kick-boxing-muay-thai-scene.html
As fas as those two fighters, they train at each own camp in Aichi, where is the local region of Japan.
Both of their camps are just a minor camp, not so high profile. Aichi is the third largest city in Japan next to Tokyo and Osaka where most professional fighters are living. So also in terms of an interchange among fighters, their training environments are not so good. Also, they rarely go to Thailand for training, I can't say precisely though.
* Yoshihiro Sato also trains at some local camp in Aichi.
* Tetsuya Yamato belongs to Yamato-gym, so "Yamato" is not his real name but just a ring name. (real name is Iwashita)
I don't want to disrespect to their camps, maybe good camp and coaches. However especially Noiri, still just 20 years old, I believe his success owes a lot to his talent itself. (from Wiki : 'As a schoolboy, Noiri began practicing Shin Karate, a style of full contact karate based on Kyokushin but modified to use boxing gloves and allow punches to the face. He soon became an All Japan Junior Champion in the discipline.')
Despite the demise of K-1 in Japan is there still a strong scene there.
Guys like Masaki Noiri and Tetsuya Yamamoto? Are there high profile camps in Japan? What are they? Do these guys go to Thailand? Just curious.
One of the fastest growing amateur sports in Japan at the moment is glove karate, which is basically K-1 rules kickboxing (actually more like kyokushin in scoring, but otherwise it is basically k-1), but done in karate-gi and with no ring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01XN-t18Qu0
(This is Noiri winning the u-18 glove karate title in the shinkarate organization, that got him a spot in K-1 youth tournament)
One of the fastest growing amateur sports in Japan at the moment is glove karate, which is basically K-1 rules kickboxing (actually more like kyokushin in scoring, but otherwise it is basically k-1), but done in karate-gi and with no ring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01XN-t18Qu0
(This is Noiri winning the u-18 glove karate title in the shinkarate organization, that got him a spot in K-1 youth tournament)
Martial art is pretty much dead in Japan post k1 and Dream.
Oh well it is not as alive as it was back in its heyday then.