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

[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: the new training gym has all sorts of useful equipment for physical fitness such as mats, soft hand held pads for training with, training dummies, some balancing beams and even a springboard. There are large blocks for making obstacle courses or creating a unique battlefield, and two climbing apparatus next to the wall. Many people are found here daily training, maintaining physical fitness, and teaching others how to handle combat in one fashion or another. Others come and go more sporadically but all are welcome and everyone (typically) shares everything with relative ease. Many of the usual suspects will help accommodate whoever asks for help. Generally, there is just a lot of activity and a busy but fluid schedule around all the equipment and space provided.

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

47 | OTA for general questions, pestering, spars, training, and anything else

[rieper]

47 was one of the usual suspects that could be found in the training gym daily. He helped set out equipment in the morning after a very early breakfast so that he was one, if not the, first people in the gym. He also returned in the evening to clean up and maintain the equipment in the late evening. That didn't mean equipment couldn't be used at night, just that he liked to keep things nice and tidy when there was less activity. He wouldn't call anyone out on leaving things out so no worries there. More importantly he spent a majority of his time in the gym and made it obvious that he was available at almost any given time for any aid with activities held here.

His normal routine consists of physical fitness in the morning and light sparring in the evening, or harder sparring upon request. Whenever he's not exercising or sparring specifically he's easy to approach as he watches everyone go about their personal training from the sidelines or conducts routine maintenance on equipment. 47 will readily help newcomers and veterans alike with finding teachers and sparring partners and is pretty good at appropriately pairing people up for both. He will also easily agree to spar or coach another with almost any sort of combat type.

Basically, a character can approach him for just about anything concerning the nature of this would-be Fight Club scenario going on here!


For convenience, here are some things that can be handwaved: getting him to help with equipment whether to move it or to repair it; asking him to help partner characters together for spars or training; giving your character a recommended physical fitness routine; friendly hand-to-hand sparring sessions. Any of these items can also be threaded out if you wish!

Piccolo | OTA for martial arts training, sparring, bugging him about random things...

[shutupnail]

Piccolo spent half his time in the greenhouse meditating these days and the rest of his time in the training gym making use of the space and obstacles. It was no secluded mountain range and he had to be careful not to destroy anything or hurt anyone by accident--but it was better than nothing. Besides, he had several students to teach by now so a majority of his time was spent working on them rather than his own pursuits. That was fine. It kept him busy and still allowed him to work on martial arts.

He didn't mind taking on new students or sparring with others whenever they wanted. If anyone still came up to him for weapon creation however he was on a declining streak. By now most should have known his view on the matter--though if anyone wanted to try to change his mind that was acceptable. He would listen until he grew tired of the conversation and walked off.

As for his students, they had move sets and forms to practice under Piccolo's watchful eye. When they weren't going through the basics, Piccolo would finally reward them with practicing small ki techniques. Each student had a different regime depending on their strengths, weaknesses, and own homeworld abilities that they were working on expanding. Though Piccolo was beginning to think it was time to throw a few of them together for spars and practicing moves together.


Continued training can be handwaved of course! But if you want a thread to see which direction they're currently going don't be afraid to hit this.

[nutkrusher]

The last mission, with its caverns full of monsters vulnerable to light and not much else, had impressed on Cassie the need to finally master throwing qi projectiles. Banging her tonfas together to make green sparks had been a stopgap solution, to put it charitably. So for the last several days, she's been working on focusing her energy to a point outside herself, just out of her reach.

Right now, it's manifesting as an ever-growing green ball of light extending from her fingertips. All she needs to do now is release it at the target dummy.

This has been the hard part.

Re: Piccolo | OTA for martial arts training, sparring, bugging him about random things...

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel came in, and walked over to Piccolo. He didn't bother trying to make any noise, however, as he was fairly certain Piccolo had spotted him.

"I think I have gotten the hang of the last move you set me on. Would you care to take a look and let me know what you think?" he asked with a smile. He had still not mastered anything close to a focused blast, however. He was certain his fear of not being able to control the power level was the culprit, and hoped that Piccolo might have a suggestion.

Re: Piccolo | OTA for martial arts training, sparring, bugging him about random things...

[schrodingersghost]

Danny looks around the room uncertainly as he walks in.

"So, uh, how does this whole training thing work?"

bug bug bug bug ; grasshopper 20

[blitzcheer]

Tidus has a purpose when he comes into the training gym this day--several purposes actually, but a few of those to do with Piccolo. There was a goal he set himself; a goal that in hindsight was probably a pretty ridiculous set amount of time. But Tidus had kept at it: ten uninterrupted days of meditation for ten minutes. Ten minutes he went over at times, and even had double sessions, just because the inspiration hit him.

Ten minutes was somehow both long, yet short at once. Who knew?

This day was technically the tenth, but did that really matter? Tidus was heading straight for the green guy, practically buzzing with an energy he was somehow containing. Smile large, catching Piccolo when hopefully isn't too busy.

"Ten days of meditation in a row," he says proudly once he stops before him. "Still willing to take me on?"

[comingorgoing]

Vigilant Gaze had heard there were regular training sessions going on and, being something of a martial artist himself, had limped over to investigate, trailing dust. He stopped towards the edge of the crowd, glad for the comparatively high ceiling in this coach allowing him to actually stand up straight.

Most of the other voidtreckers seemed...passable, for humans. one of them stood out. The green one.

He wasn't sure what Piccolo was. Maybe some kind of Servant, maybe something else entirely. Who could say, here? What he was sure of was that he was extraordinarily powerful. Interesting.

"Ho there." He said, at a moment when Piccolo was not focusing on any of his students.

Glimmer | OTA for baby-level sparring, training, magic! please help her

[queenofsparkles]

Glimmer has a whole lot of restless energy in her. She's never done well with being locked up, or being grounded and put in time-out, or having a lack of freedom to do whatever, whenever, however she pleases.

She's been here for less than a week and she can't go anywhere. She's gonna go stir-crazy at this rate.

So she's definitely coming to the gym every day to burn some of that energy. She might not look like someone to take seriously, with her pink-and-purple hair and demonstratable lack of muscle, as she struggles to pull the training dummy she wants to use to one side, out of the immediate range of other people, but that's not stopping her.

There's not any particular method to her regime, and certainly not a strict schedule: she shows up at random during the day, drags a dummy aside, and starts just. Wailing on it gracelessly. Magic glows around her fists, forming brilliantly pink spheres of light that she uses to punch projectile blasts into the dummy, or she puts her fists together and sends a more concentrated beam flying into the dummy hard enough to knock it over; or even pull her staff out in a flash of glitter, and twirl and thrust it to send more blasts out. Sometimes she'll teleport in and out of range of the dummy, coming in quick to launch a sparkling punch or dazzling spinning kick that send the dummy skidding around the floor in circles.

(Her combat forms are. Terrible. Absolutely atrocious. Please help her.)

Or she works in motion: the train keeps throwing off her landings, so she's putting practice into adjusting, by taking a ball from the actual gym and lobbing it in the air as hard as she can, in random directions, so she can teleport after it to play catch with herself. More often than not she miscalculates, and either teleports too far and misses the ball completely, or too close and gets smacked in the face. Which... gets her to take a time-out while she tries not to yell. Shit hurts.

Re: Glimmer | OTA for baby-level sparring, training, magic! please help her

[laurefindil]

A bottle of water appears near her after one such fury of blows on the poor dummy. "I see what you are trying to do there. Would you mind a little creative input, however?" Glorfindel asked.

[She may wonder how someone as glowy as he managed to sneak up on her, but 5000 years of practice does that....]

[sos_pilot]

After the ball and Glimmer's face meet, Della can't help but wince. That didn't look fun.

"Hey, you all right?" She asked gently, heading on over and hoping for no broken noses. She didn't have one herself, and hoped those things didn't break easily.

[shutupnail]

One day Glimmer's actions gained Piccolo's attention while he was free from students and his own practices. He watched her from afar with a curiosity for her methods. There was cringing at all her forms--she clearly had no formal training that he could see--but he was more interested in determining what sort of abilities she was using.

Piccolo knew without looking that she wasn't using ki attacks yet he could also faintly feel some power from her. The appearance was similar enough to spiritual energy to throw him further off but there was definitely something off with even the likeness. He thought perhaps it was simply the different world she was from meshing strangely--he recalled the 'power of love' from Universe 2 (and cringed) and wondered if it was something like that.

It should have occurred to him that it was attack magic but that just wasn't a thing in his own multiverse beyond a few transformative or paralyzing magics that were easily forgotten as actual magic and not fighting techniques. Not to mention the usual stuff he had seen from the people on the train involved elements of varying kinds but usually such things as lightning, fire, and ice. Basically, magic wasn't his strong suit despite the fact that he possessed it (which was unusual in its own way). And he hadn't the foggiest.

Eventually he approached her during a lull period in her sporadic practice session. "You've clearly never had any formal training," he stated bluntly. No one ever accused the warrior type Namekian of being subtle, that was for sure. "Which is a pity since I would like to ask what sort of technique you're using."

He crossed his arms over his chest. "You should consider training under someone here. Your attacks could be much more efficient and successful if you knew what you were doing with them."

Glorfindel | OTA for Training, Sparring, Archery lessons, Pestering or just fun.

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel was just casually standing on one end of a balance beam. He had one foot on it and the other looked like it was standing on air, his arms folded across his chest. He will smile and greet anyone who comes near.

"Hello, what can I help you with?"

Masumi Sera | OTA for sparring, training, pestering

[tactlesstantei]

[Masumi, determined to keep her JKD skills up after that last mission, had pulled a training dummy aside to get in some practice while she had the chance.

It was clear that she was skilled, landing blows that would have slowed down or even knocked out a living person on the dummy. Every so often she would have to stop and right the dummy after knocking it over, but it was never long before she was right back at it.

It was only after a hard kick to the dummy's side did she stop, leaning against the wall of the car for a breather after her practice session. This would likely be the best time to approach her.]

Re: Masumi Sera | OTA for sparring, training, pestering

[knifewithnoname]

[She was a regular at these training sessions, often training alone or watching and copying others though she sometimes joined in when there were groups of people training.

She has been practising some fighting forms but her roommate fighting the dummy had caught her eye and she had paused in her own practice to watch.

When Masumi stops for a break she goes over with a grin.] You do be being strong.

OTA | meditation, combat

[sos_pilot]

Meditation

[ Della wants to master Everything and Anything when it comes to combat! But... can meditation really help? It took her a while to agree to it, and eventually she can be found in a crossed leg position, on the floor, eyes closed. Concentrating on oneness... blankness... calmness...]

... Zzz.

[ Of course she fell asleep. ]

Combat

[ Ah well, back to basics. Della has a pretty standard routine, using punches and kicks against the training dummy. She's doing it all pretty calmly, really just doing it for exercise. After a while, she glances over, sighing as she takes a break.]

Hey, mind passing me that water?

meditation

[blitzcheer]

[ Oh wow, was Della learning how to meditate too? Cool!

...except for when he hears the snores, there's a nudging on her leg--her non-metal leg, followed by a quick elbow. ]

Psst, Della! Don't let 'em catch you sleeping!

[ Shhhhhh, whispering!!! Also hi, Tidus appeared cross-legged right beside you. ]

Re: OTA | meditation, combat

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel passed over the water.

"You have some excellent moves. I can see you are quite skilled at fighting," he said with some admiration.

Lightning | OTA for elemental magic, healing, various melee, anti-gravity

[enthunder]

Light is training more often than not. Either advanced sparring - which she accepts and offers with equal amounts of dry challenge - or pushing herself on agility courses when the blocks and swings are free. The recent hectic missions have her pushing herself in speed and strength, as well as general awareness. She's eager to involve herself in sparring between multiple partners, even if that's a little difficult to arrange with any regularity.

For about ten minutes a day she retreats to the far end of one of the mats, and calls out the eidolon Odin. A metal knight twice the height of a human, wielding a tremendous double-bladed sword and a tower shield, he's a solid partner. She works on shifting him between horse and knight forms as seamlessly as possible, often in the middle of runs or leaps, or just offers him as a somewhat intimidating training dummy. If he's slain, he only dissolves back into her eidolith for the day, so it's easier to fight unrestrained. Even if the room itself might not appreciate it.

She takes breaks occasionally, doing a circuit of the room to check on others, and heal any unwanted injuries. Provided she didn't just see you inflict it on yourself in a stupid fashion, in which case you're getting chewed out.

Some days are reserved for training others. She has her regulars, other voidtreckers she's used to working with on this or that. Knifework, self-defense, hand-to-hand... but despite her gruff exterior, Light's relatively easy to talk into giving you her attention for whatever you want to try out.

elemental magic!!

[blitzcheer]

"Heyyy, Light, you're good with magic, right? You think you can help me practice some fire?"

He approaches her in the earlier part of the day, whether he'll need to come back later or not, depending on what she's up to. But it's been on his mind since the last mission, and okay, since the mission before that too... but he's never had a good time to practice with it proper, and using it against those stupid dumb orby fiends wasn't the most brilliant time to take it easy.

(And ugh, and speaking of them, he both feels like he could call on thunder quicker than he ever could before, but he'd like a longer break from casting it, thanks...)

O D I N

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Hohhhhhhh....'s huge..." Not the largest he's seen, but Odin is definitely a sight to behold. And certainly not something he can take on- honestly, being at the fight club is a bit intimidating now that he's witnessed enough.

But, it's good to know what others can do! And apparently Light and Odin can....do this?

"Mnh- a hor-"

"NYHHIHIIIII!!!" Kaseri, suffice to say, is immediately interested. She doesn't gallop in close, but she does start prancing in small circles between Katsuya and the sparring duo. "NIIIII!!!"

"Oi oi, Kaseri, yer gonna get hit by somethin' over there..! Bug 'er abou' th' horse later..!"

Itsuki | OTA; practice, sparring, meditation

[sunbloom]

The training gym is the perfect place for someone's that's used to having a dojo for a home. Itsuki, having recently recovered her gi from home, spends some time here first thing every morning meditating, then tends to start with working out with her (possibly surprisingly-) high-level aikido, beating on a dummy with whatever she can manage, trying forms but more used to working with a real person, which may show. She's got kata to work from, too, and if the room's busy enough she'll keep to herself in a corner working on those. After or sometimes instead of that, she'll try tackling obstacle courses or climbing setups someone else may have set up for fear of breaking something if she tries to do it herself, and occasionally just doing something more mundane like gymnastics to work on things that aren't strength and repetition. Of course, her talents stretch beyond that, but if Sunshine shows up here, she'll have a lot of fast talking to do, so... maybe another time.

Her present concern is that she can't exactly throw the dummies like she could a person, so she's a little stuck on how she's going to work on her form there; she can be seen trying and struggling for a while some days, before she gives up on it and reverts to the kind of hand-to-hand she uses as Sunshine, just... slower, and at her own power level. When she's not working on her own stuff, she's also watching others for ideas, not hiding her interest if someone's working on something she's never seen (or never seen a normal person do). In short she's here a lot because she doesn't have class to get in the way and is working on everything by turns, please involve her in things.

Re: Itsuki | OTA; practice, sparring, meditation

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel came over to watch her moves, but far enough away not to disturb her unless she wanted to be disturbed. Some of her moves looked a little familiar, but others were completely new to him.

"That looks quite interesting," he said about the aikido, once she paused. "I've not seen the like before."

Re: Itsuki | OTA; practice, sparring, meditation

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Yuri has... still been mostly keeping to herself, to tell the truth. Beyond her teammates, anyway. Still, even if trying to keep her mind sharp, keeping her body the same was also a necessity.

At the very least, approaching Itsuki would be helpful in that regard, she figured.

"Somehow, I figured it'd be easy to find you here."

a-qing | open

[spikelet]

Meditation and Spying
Technically, she's fairly sure she should be meditating somewhere more peaceful. But just sitting there, while productive in circulating her spiritual energy or whatever she's meant to be doing that's making her skin warm and her gut ache, is kind of tedious, even if she gives it her all. You know what improves it? Sneaking glances at everyone working out, or training, or throwing spiritual arts ('magic') around like it's some kind of competition.

It's useful. She gets to find out who to turn to in a bad situation. Who can she trust? Who looks competent, strong, who takes on students and remembers names? Who gets angry if they can't master something? Who comes in together? Who doesn't? It's all information she can use to protect herself.

Sometimes, if someone has really impressed her, she'll try to engineer an encounter. Maybe collecting something from the racks at the same time, or doing a convenient water run that includes them... or just bumping into them, at a pinch. She can't do it too much, but there's a lot to be impressed by. If it means she ends up with a reputation for clumsiness, then so be it.

Those That Train Together (closed to 1-E)
Changing clothes for working out is a novel concept for A-Qing. Actually, having the option is strange enough. She has two soft slips in her luggage that she's sure are meant to be sleepwear if she trusted the situation enough not to just sleep in her clothes, and then just... a lot of the same clothing. Which, good, because of the aforementioned sleeping habits. But it's all easy to move in, so she's just in her polo shirt and trousers. Who cares, when they're all in the same uniform? It also means she can just roll out of bed late, wash her face and tie her hair back, and then return to the room and perch on the edge of either Edge or Jou's bed, legs swinging, waiting for everyone to get ready.

That's right. Today, they promised to all try out the training sessions together. Or, she's reasonably sure that's what was eventually decided, in the discussion-slash-shouting match that went on last night. In any case, it's something she's wanted to do for a while, but she's not had the wherewithal to craft an excuse for it.

"What's taking so long?"

Wildcard

[ choose your own adventure! ]

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Nyh?" It took a bit of thinking for Katsuya to come up with a good way to teach someone who apparently couldn't see. Normally he'd be pretty fast to say 'watch this' after all...

But, the desire to teach someone who was just about his sister's age overpowered the confusion. If things were dangerous for A-Qing, then better to make them less so! So.

He comes in just slightly too late to properly hear that, but seems to have somehow heard anyway. "What?" What's apparently taking so long, what is it, what,