PeterR

For me the hints and realizations were always there - my inner psychopath looks for those things - but what really brought the issue home was when I asked why we bother doing suwariwaza. My knees were hurting at the time and I would have rather done oshitaoshi (ikkyo for you non-heathens) from standing.

It was pointed out that if you tried the suwari version from standing the neck would not survive.

The techniques come from a lethal root - they have been modified for safe practice more than anything else.