Fight Club Open Log! (Catch-All For the Month of Fiddlesticks)

[rieper]

This is an OPEN LOG for anyone to join. Make toplevels to your heart's content and tag around to each other freely. Whether your character is offering to teach or wanders in looking for someone to get them involved (or just to watch), this is a post for you! You may use this for any sort of open or even private threads if you so wish.

This log is for anyone who wants to participate in exercising, training, sparring, and teaching lessons. Some of the "classes" also involve things like yoga, meditation, and easier self defense mechanisms for anyone to learn. Magic users are also extremely encouraged to use the practice dummies and other facilities as well! After all, they also need to practice and also get used to having physical fighters near them as they spellcast. And vice versa. Plus, some people use both abilities in battle!

Basically, if you want to learn new skills that could be useful on missions, come take a peek!


For a basic set-up consider this: a majority of this takes place in the gym; it's regulars have set it up with target dummies and various practice armaments. Armaments currently consist of things like wooden practice swords, poles, and bows and arrows. A few real weapons can be borrowed from either 47 (or perhaps others willing to share) or created by Piccolo upon request. (If you have any weapons or items to add to the practice sessions, please drop a line in the ooc post!) Of course characters can always bring and use their own items these are just for general use for anyone without armaments already. No one is regulating anything like that.


Various characters will be around to help answer questions icly if you like (I have 47 on offer for starters) and if you have any ooc questions or comments drop a line over here! An ic announcement was also made by 47 if your character needs an impetus for heading towards the gym. c:

And remember: you do you and have fun!!!

Comments

[silentwoof]

A nod of acknowledgement, and Whisper wordlessly steps into place. So. Humans are definitely not all... round. Sometimes they're pretty cool huh?

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie presses her hands together and bows, because old sparring habits die hard.

The gym car is spacious enough for be fit for purpose, but not as roomy as most rooms she's sparred in. So she starts by moving straight ahead, seeking to test Whisper's guard with some quick kicks to the lower body.

[silentwoof]

Whisper mimics it - its an easy little formality. "Not much space." Which isn't to her liking but that just makes it better practice, yeah?

It's not hard to turn testing kicks aside with a few swipes of her arm.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Fighting entirely on a two-dimensional plane? It'll never catch on.

The good news is, Cassie's still got a lot of tricks left in the bag. She begins attacking from above, taking advantage of her height and reach. More than anything else, she wants to force Whisper to try to close in and expose herself.

[silentwoof]

The reach advantage is a little bit of a problem, yeah - so Whisper is gonna have to try to move inside, blocking all the while as she angles to use her size to slip in beneath instead.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie's downward strikes have been coming at a predictable, rhythmic rate - designed to condition a response from Whisper. Subtly, almost imperceptably, she steps half aside as she withholds one blow just a bit later than she had been previously.

If she's calculated right, Whisper may overextend herself reaching to block a punch that hasn't arrived yet, leaving her other side exposed. Whether she takes the bait is up to her...

[silentwoof]

For all that Whisper was pretty good - she wasn't accustomed to tricky, high level fighting tactics like that. Messing with her timing is a pretty good way to get around her general athleticism and reflexes, leaving her surprised and open.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Cassie follows with a rising knee to the solar plexus. In battle, she'd be going for the head, but she generally prefers her friendly sparring matches not to end in a concussion.

[silentwoof]

Given Whisper's size it'd be pretty easy to just knock a tooth out. A sharp, scary wolf tooth.

Whisper shifts enough to turn it into a glancing blow, but it still sends her stumbling back too much for a counterattack.

[cassiefuckingcage]

At this, Cassie sweeps the leg, looking to take her down to the ground while her footing is unsteady.

[silentwoof]

"Ah-" Well, that takes her down, although she lands with her arm out for support to quickly push herself back up to her feet. Probably, Cassie won't stop that...

[cassiefuckingcage]

Unfortunately Cassie is not the type to back off until she's called off. She's on top of her in a hurry, looking to get her back onto the ground as soon as possible.

The way she sees it, they could both stand to practice their ground game.

[silentwoof]

Ah crud. That leaves Whisper scrambling to try and roll away from a mount. At least she's got leverage from her small size.

[cassiefuckingcage]

Indeed, Cassie finds her to be unusually slippery for someone covered in fur. She can't quite mount all the way up to begin a proper ground and pound.

But she doesn't back off or loosen up. She keeps up the pressure, seeking to keep Whisper pinned to the ground.