Interesting stuff, I myself am not a practitioner of the Japanese arts. I just want to suggest some intersting study for folks interested in "old" martial arts. I study Muay Thai kickboxing, it is a 2000 year old martial art native to Thailand. Look that up for interesting reading, it differs from ...

i prefer my training without philosophy.

hehehe that check list is a hoot. I wonder what they have to say about martial arts that don't have "belts"