The Shu-to logo

One of our Japanese students noticed that the word "shu-to", which roughly translates to "prepared mind", described our training philosophy and sounded a lot like the English word "shooter". He thought this made a great multi-cultural pun and shared it with us. Many have observed that the study of defensive shooting should be considered a martial art, and traditional martial arts schools often have logos in Japanese or Chinese. We've been told that the Japanese symbol is very similar to the Chinese word for "prepared mind" as well. We added the two red triangles to the Kanji. to symbolize mind and body (with the two arrows pointing at the center), and/or the upper and lower A-zones of an IPSC target.

The shu-to is on the team shirts for the KR Training shooting team, and we now have logo wear at our Cafe Press store featuring this logo.