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

[rieper]

Who: Open to anyone! Make your own toplevel style~
Where: Training gym
When: Throughout the month of Imagination
What: Training in the gym. Unofficially known as "Fight Club". 47 absolutely does not call it that. But I do!
Warnings: It's a Fight Club! Sorta. Expect (hopefully friendly) violence, maybe some cursing, and whatever else. Free feel to add cw in your toplevels if needed.

Early in the month of Imagination, 47 makes an announcement on the ICP.

From: Training Gym
To: All Carriages

[It's the bald man in a suit again and if you've guessed what he's going to say before he starts talking you've been on the train for far too long like the rest of them.]

Another mission should be coming within the week. Anyone unprepared should consider the efforts ongoing in the training gym to learn new skills for survival, combat, and defensive measures. Those who have such skills already are welcome to participate in sparring and exercise sessions as well if they have not already done so within the group setting. [Or come help train.]

There are multiple people to chose from for training or sparring needs. Simply make your way to the training gym whenever possible. My name is Tobias Rieper--you'll find me there most days and if you need help with anything I'm available.

[That's all he has to say this time. Short, sweet, to the point. The end. He'll be in the training gym for Q&A for the rest of the day and probably most of the week or until the next mission comes (at least). This is typical for him anyway.]

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 also use the facilities to practice their spells! Everyone get use to that crazy lightning storm going off around them as they fight the big bad monster of a training dummy! It's going to happen at some point out in the field, guaranteed!

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.

[[ooc note: The typical Fight Club open log post has returned! Now condensed into one post with the ic announcement for convenience of yours truly. Here is the original ooc info post which may or may not one day get an update, and here is a list of training/trainers offered up. Feel free to continue to update either post with new character info! Or ask questions if you have 'em!]]

Comments

[reluctantjinrou]

Natsuno looked a bit bewildered by the instruction. "I thought I was controlling it."

He hesitated. "Hit less hard, uh, okay. I can try."

He swung the next punch, but that was not any lighter, in fact it may have been stronger.

[light_of_willpower]

"Okay, that was actually stronger. Focus on just hitting the target enough to be felt." Trunks might just tell Natsuno to forget about the control in a bit, since it was obvious the other was already naturally controlling himself, somewhat.

[reluctantjinrou]

"Just enough to be felt..." Natsuno murmured and nodded, trying again. This time it might have been better, or closer to where he'd been in the beginning.

It probably wasn't too strong for people at that point, but it was stronger than one might like in a spar.

[light_of_willpower]

"That was much better." Trunks encouraged, keeping his mouth shut about how it should be a little less. They could work on that as Natsuno got better, and honestly? It might work itself out as the other got better. "Think you're up for trying kicks with a target?"

[reluctantjinrou]

He looked at the glove and considered it again.

"I can try." Natsuno agreed. He wondered if it would be different.

It was. He did have something solid to connect to, unlike his punches he was less confident and it wouldn't be so solid. On top of that, he looked off balance, actually.

[light_of_willpower]

Trunks let Natsuno do a few kicks before he was shaking his head. "You're off-balance. Maybe we should have you practice kicks against a training dummy, work on getting the form more fully."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Is it how I'm standing or maybe when I go to kick?" Natsuno asked, wondering a bit. He wasn't planted enough, but practice couldn't hurt.

"I could try the training dummy."

[light_of_willpower]

"You're not planted enough in your stance, especially as you go to kick. Let's try the training dummy, so I can observe. It should still get easier with practice."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Yes, alright." Natsuno agreed and moved over to the training dummy instead. He waited a moment or two to try and prepare himself and then he levied a kick at it.

[light_of_willpower]

Trunks stood nearby, watching Natsuno's form as he shifted to the dummy. It was likely a different experience than practicing against a person for the other. It had been for Trunks when he'd first practiced against training dummies.

[reluctantjinrou]

The impact of the dummy was a little more solid. Natsuno would get the impact and it made it more obvious to him that he was off balance when he had to adjust with the leg he was standing on.

"Hm. What am I doing wrong?"

[light_of_willpower]

"You're not fully planted." Trunks commented, before moving over to once again demonstrate. "Some of that comes with practice, but..."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Hm." He tried then, to plant himself a little better before kicking the bag again.

Not quite.

"I think practice is probably the problem." Natsuno admitted.

[light_of_willpower]

"Well, you're in the right place for practicing. Do you want to keep working on kicks, or go back to punches? Punching a dummy can be different than a person too."

[reluctantjinrou]

"Maybe I'd better figure out this kick thing since I already started it." Natsuno decided after a moment. Practice could only help, right?

[light_of_willpower]

"Go right on ahead then. I'm going to watch you for a bit, see if I can think of any ways to help you improve besides 'doing it'."

[reluctantjinrou]

Natsuno turned his focus on the dummy and proceeded to work through the steps Trunks had taught him, while trying to plant his feet. With a dummy the impact didn't matter, but he didn't make more than a dull thud so he was at least restraining himself somewhat.

His form was a bit imperfect, but his balance was more the problem, the impact at times made him scoot back a little bit, but the more he practiced the less that was a problem.

[light_of_willpower]

That little scoot-back was a problem, but it was getting better with practice. Eventually Trunks moved somewhat behind the dummy. "I want to try something. I'm going to brace this, and then just kick at it--without worrying about your force of impact."

So saying, Trunks did so. Planting his feet, legs bent and body right up against the back of the dummy where he could brace it. Ready for Natsuno where he could still observe.

[reluctantjinrou]

"Alright." Natsuno understood what he was doing, to some degree, taking away the thing he was probably thinking the most about.

It was still not his full force, but his form was a bit better, he was better planted and Trunks would feel a decently solid connection where his foot met the dummy.

[light_of_willpower]

"Good! I want ten of those, alright?" It was definitely a solid hit, but nothing Trunks couldn't take. Truthfully he was more worried about the two of them breaking the dummy by accident.

[reluctantjinrou]

That was a lot more encouraging, and Trunks seemed to think so too. It just felt better.

Maybe he was onto something, so Natsuno did as he was told, lobbying ten kicks at the dummy. He wasn't doing it quite hard enough to break anything, thankfully.

[light_of_willpower]

It was very encouraging in Trunks' eye, as he saw Natsuno make that little step back less. "I think for kicks, you definitely need to practice with the dummy braced for now. But you're getting better. There are still weaknesses, but it's starting to actually look like a proper kick instead of flailed limbs."

[reluctantjinrou]

He let out the smallest of chuckles.

"Well I suppose that's progress, not to seem like I'm flailing uncontrollably."

[light_of_willpower]

"Is it starting to feel at least a little more familiar, or easier?" Trunks asked, smiling that he'd made Natsuno chuckle.

[reluctantjinrou]

"It's a lot easier, actually, and it feels much better. I'm not sure how else to describe it." Natsuno admitted. "I feel less off-balance, anyway."