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

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Yuri shrugged a little. "Maybe that's true, but I guess the nature of just... feels a lot smaller than it may actually be."

Her smile turned to more of a smirk at the response, though. Obviously, she'd gone a long time WITHOUT power and was able to function just fine, much less how she is now. "Well, all the same. Better to make sure my reflexes are right, hm?"

She scans the area. "Hmm... not sure, however. What have you been doing besides beating up on hapless dummies?"

[sunbloom]

"The train's bigger than it feels," Itsuki offered, "but I get where you're coming from."

But she grinned all the same. "It shouldn't be too terrible, but yeah, let's figure something out. The dummies - and the train - don't take well to being thrown, so I haven't been working on that, but I've been working on balance instead, and then there's the walls..." She gestured as she spoke, to the beams and the climbing walls. "There's a lot, honestly? It's kind of surprising, given... you know. Train."

[alilyinthemoonslight]

"Yes, given... train."

A soft chuckle, and she shrugged a little. "So, you need something better than a dummy to try and throw, hm?"

A beat.

"Well, try."

[sunbloom]

Well, she'd take a happy Yuri-san any day of the week. But in any event, that sure sounded like a challenge...

"If you're volunteering, then yes, I think you'll be a lot lighter than a dummy," Itsuki agreed, as she slid into a slightly wider stance. "A lot more satisfying to hit, too."

[alilyinthemoonslight]

"Yes, I expect so," she says, eyeing the stance, but not otherwise moving until she brushes her hair back.

"Implying, of course, you can hit me."

[sunbloom]

"Well, if I can't, you're getting your training in, right?" Not that she's planning to let Yuri get off easy. "No powers, of course. Stay in this car. Any other ground rules before I chuck you across the room?"

[alilyinthemoonslight]

Of course, Itsuki wasn't around when Yuri had confronted certain elements without her powers. Likewise, neither was Yuri for her. She just smiles gently, not really shifting much otherwise.

"No, no. I do think that about covers it."

[sunbloom]

So anything goes, then... Not that it does anything to help her, but good to keep in mind. "That works, then!" She slams a fist into her open palm, ready to rock; thankfully she'd been working on mats already or Yuri would probably regret this exercise either way. "Then we'll start in three, two, one-!" She didn't bother with the word go; their collective enemies hadn't, no sense in starting now, and besides that she was impatient. No, better to start off the easy way and just charge straight at her. She suspects Yuri hasn't dulled that much in four weeks and change, but she wants proof.