Thanks, Chuck, and Cady...
Chuck,
Thanks. I'll check out that book. I scanned the first sample pages at amazon.com and it looks interesting.
Cady, I'm going to PM you re: impressions about some aikido folk.
Wayne
Not quite sure about this...
Bruce,
"...I am not trying to refute the value of this type of training, but am suggesting that maybe it was not adopted into the older arts for reasons other than what have been posited here to date."
With due respect, I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. It has been my experience that the koryu stuff I have been doing...at least what I do...deals with this extensively, to a point where the ryu goes into the psychology of combat and the emotional and mental effects thereafter. In fact, my "homework" given to me in the summer was to read the tracts on such mental states kept within our ryu to balance the upper level physical techniques I just learned, which deal with laying on maximum owee. To my knowledge, I haven't come across this dissection of the mental and emotional effects of combat (not sports) in many modern budo schools.
Sincerely,
Wayne Muromoto