Masami Sakakibara on Tenkara in Focus Episode 7

Here you go – an episode that we are INCREDIBLY excited to bring you…However, you’ll now note that we’re no longer able to offer you Masami’s masterclass bundle! (boo!).

We are busting our asses to bring you the very best tenkara content on the net (let us know if we are winning at that or if you think we suck in the comments below).

One thing that we are confident you will love is the first slice of our content that we’ve been building on Masami Sakakibara since 2014. The content of the show and the premium download materials came from our intensive 9-day coaching period in Japan with Masami and Kyoko in 2015. By filming hours of that process, we were in a unique position to begin to give you the secrets of Masami’s excellent technique and great success on stream. However, our dispute with the cameraman on that trip means that we no longer have the rights to sell (or make public for free) that specific bundle. Check out our Patreon Page for more info.

Possibly the most famous of the absolutely elite tenkara anglers in Japan – Masami is respected for his amazing casting skills (especially with long lines) and also his incredible ability to catch fish from difficult waters using only simple, unweighted kebari (flies).

He prefers not to use bead-head flies; as this is a different “game” to Masami and the game he prefers is based on unweighted wet flies…

By using our biological and coaching backgrounds (and even some sports science!) we’ve managed to boil down the key, reproducible skills that will make your own ability on stream just a bit (or even a lot) more like Masami’s…

And one of the most exciting things for us is that this first slice of content from those hours of footage is dedicated entirely to short to medium-length casting lines that anybody can use – and is based on medium-sized trout rivers (which can be described as “keiryu” in Japanese). It is perhaps less well-known that Masami is also a master of that style of tenkara (as well as the big rivers and long-line approaches).

Not only are Masami’s demonstrations of those specific skills only captured on film in our content – but nobody else has been lucky enough to apply the same kinds of interpretation that we found possible due to our background skill-set.

Let us know how we’re doing in the comments and don’t forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel so that you don’t miss the next episode (Which will air AFTER our trip to Japan and is the last one in Season 1; before we return in Autumn/Fall).

Paul