UNIQUE FORMS AND MOVEMENTS OF SHU HA RI DO CALLED “COMS”(COMBAT MANEUVERS)
As some of you already know within Shu Ha Ri Do there are original
movements, and forms that are called COMS short for Combat Maneuvers.
When I created Shu Ha Ri Do 20 years ago I wanted to represent all
phases of combat, from distance, close quarters, and the ground. Each COM
expresses all phases of combat. Although we do mitt training, bag work,

sparring, shadow boxing, and so much more. I felt in order for Shu Ha Ri Do
to be a complete system forms i.e COMS were necessary. A COM like a Kata
can be considered meditation in motion. So when a student practices the
techniques in a COM repeatedly thousands of times he is actually training
his mind for a scenario. When that scenario presents itself the mind has
seen it so many times that the body seems to move by itself as if on auto
pilot!
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