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[slobbit]

Today I am leafing through my brand-new copy of the catalog from the Metropolitan Museum exhibit, Art of the Samurai. As I doubt I'll get back there before the exhibit closes in a few weeks, it's the only way for me to see the other items that rotated in after my visit early on.

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[asakiyume]

Of course the other side of the coin is that they won't ingrain the good ones, either . . .

Yeah! And there's the rub, huh.

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In the meantime, I'm thinking about a conversation that's come up at Kendo World about practice ingraining bad habits. I haven't run into it personally

Maybe because, however new you were to iai and naginata, you already had plenty of martial-arts grounding from judo? From what little experience I have in archery, aikido, and WMA, the absolute beginners do tend to reinforce some bad habits if they are left to practice too long without supervision, though of course most of them don't practice often enough to make this thing a real issue. So I can see the merits in both sides of the argument--new students shouldn't be discouraged to practice more in the first place, but they should also be strongly encouraged to build the habit of seeking frequent feedback from their instructors and more experienced students in order to detect and break the potential bad habits before they get too firmly entrenched.