I don't know where this thread went,
but,
I know from personal experience,
the only way to get better with a martial art or weapon style (in this case)
is by doing.
That's why I like the Armoury System; it represents a different growth than most games. It starts with: choose a basic weapon, then you learn it, then you learn the actual Job when you get the Job. But it all builds basically off a guy/girl randomly running out into the wilderness with a cruddy metal sword and learning how to stab/slash/whatever marmots, dodos, wolves, etc.