2015.9.3 (Thursday)

Takanori Maeda (Medical Trainer)

Takanori Maeda

Takanori Maeda

Being a trainer is a job where you are responsible for managing the body of another person.

Being a trainer means you interact as a person and through your treatments. It is a job built upon your skill and relationships of trust created by you as a person.

The place to learn these fundamentals is an acupuncture and moxibustion school.

Learning in a place of great tradition in a prime location with top-level instructors, the kind of a trainer you will become is up to you.

To receive gratitude and to be depended on, to support and inspire others, to be proud of your job – this is what it means to be a trainer.

Profile

1983 Start working at JTA Komori (a sports massage clinic)
1984-1986 Responsible for the following:
Hiroshima Toyo Carp (Japanese baseball team)
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Kamaishi Rugby Team
Nissan Baseball Team
Oji Paper Kasugai Baseball Team
Gakusei Japan (track and field distance events)
Pitcher Hisao Niura (professional baseball player in South Korea)
…and more
1986 Graduate from the Toyoshinkyu College of Oriental Medicine
1987-1997 In-house trainer contract with the Saitama Seibu Lions (Japanese baseball team)
1998-2000 Personal trainer to pitcher Kimiyasu Kudo (Japanese baseball player)
Team trainer for Fujitsu Track and Field (Long Distance Events) and Snow Brand Milk Products’ Ice Hockey Team
2001-2003 Personal trainer to pitcher Kimiyasu Kudo and team trainer for the Saitama Seibu Lions
Provided treatments to pitcher Randy Johnson (MLB) in both Japan and America
Traveled to the Sidney Olympics and the Athens Olympic Trials as the personal trainer of pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (Japanese baseball player)
2004-2006 In-house trainer contract with the Saitama Seibu Lions (team trainer)
2006-2009 [In America] Personal trainer to pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (MLB) and team trainer for the Boston Red Socks (MLB)
Traveled to the WBC as the personal trainer of pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka


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JTA Komori (Sports Massage Clinic)
3-12-7 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Main Telephone: 03-3356-0559
* Please see the JTA Komori homepage for more information.