"...I suppose that would be true." It was something of a novelty to her this time around, because it would be the first time she'd seen a Chuunin exam after getting her promotion...but after a while, there wouldn't be much reason to watch it anymore, particularly if there was no one in them with any relation to her.

So maybe it was better to say 'the older jounin always did it'.

She tried not to find it odd that a jounin like him didn't have at least advanced knowledge of things like genjutsu even if he preferred taijutsu as a Hyuga. After all, even Shirakumo had his limitations that he never made any attempt to deny or hide from his students. If a jounin had to be a perfect shinobi, then there wouldn't have been any chance of her becoming jounin one day.

"Whatever those skills might be...they're probably more precise and less destructive skills. Wide-range jutsus would be difficult to effectively practice on a large scale in a country so small, wouldn't they?" She wondered idly how many Ame shinobi worked in the near-constant rain in their country to improve their jutsus on their own home territory (or when it rained anywhere else they happened to be). "It might make it difficult for them in the Chuunin exams...general expertise is more important than specialized expertise in those."