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

[knifewithnoname]

Jeet Kune Do. [She repeats the words carefully and nodded with a small smile.]

Do many people be fighting like that where you do be coming from?

[tactlesstantei]

"Not everyone does, but I know several people who know a martial art. One of my friends - she's on the train, too - does karate, and my oldest brother helped teach me what I know."

[She seems quite happy with that, if her expression is any indication.]

"Anyways, do you come to the fight club a lot?"

[knifewithnoname]

[She smiles at that, because Masumi seems happy about that so it must be a good thing, to have friends and brothers who fight well as well.

It was good, she thought, it meant they could all fight against anything that tried to hurt them.]

Yes. I do be coming here lots, everyone do be fighting differently so it do be being good to be seeing and learning.

[tactlesstantei]

“That’s good, that way you can defend yourself better.”

[In a place like this, being able to defend oneself was a much needed skill, so it was great to see Buttercup here.]

“Hey, why not show me what you know? I might be able to give some tips, if you want.”

[She’d never really done this before, but why not?]

[knifewithnoname]

Okay. [She nodded and moved into a position not too far from the dummy. Fighting like this was still relatively new for her, something she had learned on the train. She hadn't seen a dummy like this before.

But she began showing what she knew, basic kicks and punches that Tony had been teaching her. She kept it simple, not wanting to make a mistake.

[tactlesstantei]

[Masumi stands back and watches, not wanting to distract Buttercup from her demonstration. It’s only once she gets a chance to see what she can do does she speak up.]

“That’s pretty good. I’d say that if you adjust your stance like this, you’d have a bit more balance.” [She demonstrates what she means as she speaks, so that Buttercup can have a visual reference.]

[knifewithnoname]

[She watches carefully and adjusts her footing, changing the angle of her foot to copy what Masumi is doing.

It did feel better, once she was in the right position and she nodded with a grin.] Shall I be doing it again?

[tactlesstantei]

[After taking a moment to confirm that Buttercup was copying it right, Masumi smiled back and nodded in response to her question.]

“Yup, go for it.”

[knifewithnoname]

Okay. [She repeats the same movements she had before, this time she is very mindful of her foot, making sure to keep it in the position that Masumi had shown her.

It felt more balanced and her attacks felt a little more powerful for it.]