I asked a buddy that very question----he indicated that most koryu were not exactly designed for fighting "inside your house" so judeging their training by looking at it thu the lens of what would be considered proper "manners" is probably less than accurate.
He also asked me if I thought weight lifting was a "waste of time?"
I asked him "why?" and he said "well, how many times are you going to lie in your back and lift an opponent stright up into the air?"
I said, "yeah, but that's just training--helps make you stronger, you don't actually assume that you have to be laying on your back for it to be a benefit to your training...........oh."
Chris Thomas
"While people are entitled to their illusions, they are not entitled to a limitless enjoyment of them and they are not entitled to impose them upon others."
"Team Cynicism" MVP 2005-2006
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