What We Teach

KARATE 

Karate is a traditional martial art originating from Okinawa, Japan. It emphasizes striking techniques, such as punches, kicks, knee strikes, and open-hand techniques, combined with discipline and mental focus.
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Why It's Great for Everyone?
Karate improves physical fitness, flexibility, coordination, and balance. It teaches self-discipline, respect, and perseverance, making it ideal for children and adults alike. Karate can build confidence and provide a safe, structured environment to learn self-defense while enhancing mental clarity and emotional resilience.

SELF-DEFENSE

 A Vital Life Skill
​Self-defense encompasses techniques and strategies to protect oneself in threatening situations. Unlike fighting, which focuses on aggression or competition, self-defense is about avoidance, de-escalation, and survival. without the restraints of traditional requirements, just skills needed to protect yourself and your loved ones.
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Why It’s Essential?
Self-defense empowers individuals to feel safer and more confident in their daily lives. It promotes situational awareness, quick decision-making, and the ability to manage adrenaline in high-stress situations. Learning self-defense can bridge the gap between physical safety and mental preparedness, making it a crucial skill in an unpredictable world.

GRAPPLING

Grappling arts focus on controlling an opponent using throws, joint locks, pins, and submissions.

Arts like Judo 
Will emphasizes throwing techniques and groundwork, promoting leverage and control rather than brute strength.
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Arts like Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) specializes in ground fighting and submissions, enabling smaller individuals to neutralize larger opponents through technique.
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Arts like Japanese Jujutsu combines throws, joint locks, and strikes with traditional techniques designed for real-world self-defense scenarios.
Why Grappling is Beneficial?
Grappling develops strength, endurance, and body awareness. It fosters problem-solving skills, patience, and adaptability under pressure. Practitioners gain practical self-defense skills while improving their mental and physical well-being.

HOLISTIC SERVICES

Reiki and Life Coaching: Holistic Healing and GrowthReiki is a Japanese energy-healing practice that promotes relaxation, stress reduction, and emotional balance by channeling universal life energy. Life coaching helps individuals achieve personal or professional goals through structured guidance and support.

Reiki and Holistic Coaching integrate mind, body, and spirit, addressing deeper emotional and energetic imbalances that traditional coaching may overlook. Reiki provides relaxation and healing, while holistic coaching focuses on the whole person, encouraging growth, resilience, and fulfillment.
By combining these approaches, individuals can experience profound transformation and balance in their lives.

Are you looking for real and practical self defense?

Look no further! The Technician Dojo has been Central Ohio's premier choice for quality martial arts training since 1999! Our martial arts classes are designed to give you the confidence you deserve. We teach a unique blend of traditional and modern martial arts in order to provide you with the best self defense training possible! ​Here at the Technician Dojo, you are not just a number on the mat. Keeping in line with the traditional values of martial arts, every one of our students becomes part of our dojo family. Many students often find their training partners in the dojo become their closest friends and confidants because we all share in a common goal and interest. As a student at our dojo, you truly become a budoka. That means you will be exposed to a depth of martial arts study not commonly offered at most commercial schools. At the Technician Dojo, the study of budo is academic and effective!

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1991 Parsons Avenue Columbus,
​OH 43207

The Technician Dojo

is proud to serve as the National Headquarters of the Law Enforcement Tactical Training Institute (Peace Officer recognized). Many of our students, past and present, have been Law Enforcement Officers, Corrections Officers and/or Security Personnel. ​We take pride in helping those  who serve our community do so more safely with the tools they need on the job, and bring that same level of dedication and quality to all of our classes. *In compliance with state law, all business licenses (as well as martial arts credentials) are prominently displayed in our school for anyone who wishes to verify them.

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Columbus, Reynoldsburg,  Canal, Winchester, German Village, Obetz, Grove City, Downtown Columbus
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