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Old 03-26-2007, 08:12 AM   #14
George S. Ledyard
 
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Re: Help buying Katana

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Michael Varin wrote: View Post
Swords are obviously dangerous, as are stoves. Not many of us have formal training in the use of the stove, but most everyone learns quickly not to touch the hot parts.
Actually, whether you remember it or not, your formal training with stoves started very early on when you first started to reach high enough to touch it. You parents gave you quite a bit of training.

The, learn as you go approach works, no doubt. All of us probably really cemented the lessons our parents had tried to instill about the stove by burning ourselves. With a sword, that approach to learning can easily be the loss of some fingers, a serious cut with nerve permanent damage or some such. Sure go ahead and muck around and take that risk or get some good instruction. I know a number of people who sustained some serious injuries even with good instruction... how much more likely would that be by taking the teach yourself method. Obviously, its a free country, anyone can buy a sword. The folks that know better will buy a good one, the folks that are on the teach yourself track tend to buy junk. Then we have the double whammy of an incompetent swordsman with an unreliable sword.

But, what the hell, if something really bad happens we can always sue the manufacturer, distributor, the landlord and anyone else handy. We always blame other folks when we get hurt doing something we never should have done in the first place...

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