Downloadable Martial Arts Resources

The following resources are provided free for you to download. These downloads provide a reflection of our martial arts and self defence courses; use them to understand some of the issues we continually explore through our martial arts academy.

We trust that you understand the honor system and won't take this material (some of which we provide in our courses) to sell or use as your own. If you are interested in using this as part of a similar offering, please inquire with us first at email colin@hikarudojo.com. International schools and companies interested in extending the same value to your members are invited to contact us and establish a dialog with our instructors. Also, if you enjoy any of these martial arts or self defence downloads, why not put a link on your website (if you have one) pointing to this location? I'd appreciate the additional traffic.

Otherwise download away, and Enjoy!

Women's Self Defence and Personal Safety lecture - [139Kb]
Our very popular self defence course offering, we've been researching and delivering this course for the past 10 years. This slideshow is a cut-down version of our actual program.

Women Self Defence Practical
This document accompanies the women self defence course notes. It describes techniques taught in our short seminar on women self defence.

Learning Tool to Resolve Sporting Performance Problems - [274Kb]
This tool encourages open dialogue to resolve difficulties, and reduce anti-learning processes in learning and applying new skills. It was initially created for amateur sports participants at an intermediate stage of development. Great also for team building and targetting performance issues.

Visualization Tool - [289Kb]
Exercise for building focus and boosting physical performance through mental imagery. A must for anyone interested in optimizing performance during flight or fight encounters.

Assertiveness Tool - [247Kb]
What is the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness? How to deal with a potentially violent situation by understanding the motivation driving an aggressor. Used in conjunction with our Effective Self Defence program. Good one pager to show how the martial arts differs from self defence classes.

Fight or Flight - [216Kb]
How to effectively engage in self defence by using a verbal approach to overcome the barrier to initiating action. Initially used in conjunction with the Women's Self Defence program, so features some related information. Great performance motivator and an interesting wake up call to martial artists who have not thought of the effectiveness of individual tactics.

HRGB Syllabus - [3M]
This is the Taekwondo syllabus we use to coordinate martial arts training for our students.

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Martial Arts Articles

The following are articles from all over the web that I think are great for students and instructors of the martial arts.

The Best Defence
This is a brief article I wrote for the A-KaTo looking at strategic combat for beginning and intermediate students.

Getting Your Kicks from Taekwondo Patterns
This article I wrote for A-KaTo looks at the relationship between forms and kicking.

Top 10 Secrets of Shooting Better in Archery
Article I wrote for bwarchery, and is pertinent for martial artists as it is for archers.

AllExpert Question and Answers for Martial Arts
I participate as a martial arts expert on AllExperts. These are some of the general Q&A that I've received.

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