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Post by Ryuji on Sept 7, 2006 9:25:39 GMT -5
Master Ryuji walked into his next class and bowed, as usual. After lining them up facing the mirror, he surveyed them. “Well, that last class was interesting, wasn’t it? I was pleased to see where you guys – and girls - are at. But you all are starting at the beginning again!” After running the students through exercises, and going over what they had already learned, he showed them how to do a back fist.
Standing in a left-fighting-stance, his left foot is front and facing forward, his back foot at a 45-degree angle behind him, at shoulder width. His arms were in a defensive position, one up, protecting his face, the other at his side, ready to be used. He lifted his elbow up, pointing it at his target, the face. He extended his arm straight, so that the back of his hand (hence ‘back-fist’) was striking. He demonstrated on Dacey, showing that by striking with the flat of his fist or with the knuckles and striking different spots, like the cheek-bone and chin would have different effects. Then he ran them through an exercise, having them back-fist then reverse-punch an invisible opponent. He then told them to pick a partner to practice with, lightly tapping only.
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Post by MeiMei on Sept 7, 2006 17:27:43 GMT -5
She stood there blinking, at her partner. She was actually afraid to do this, being he clearly said to lightly tap.. Restraint.. it wasn't her best skill, her restaint was even more pathetic than her grade in cryptography.
"Well, miss impossibly tall are you gonna try or fail.." Her partner spoke.
"Ano.. I..I'll try.." She stammered, she felt so akward, and out of her element on this sort of thing.
After a few minutes, things all seemed fine and daindy, but then, she was supposed to try now, her movements were great, but as stated before, she couldn't restrain herself.
"OI, SENSEI!!! I think I broke my partner!!!" She shrieked, in a voice that actually sounded suprised. Her facial expression also looked, extremely shocked .
Now she felt like just one big problem, she thought the class would be a breeze for her, being shes learned most of this already, but in her training, it was full contact, she never learned restraint..
she looked down, feeling the eyes of staring classmates, she didn't even feel like she had the vocal stregnth at this point to yell at them to stop stareing, if they even were..
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Post by Ryuji on Sept 9, 2006 17:12:11 GMT -5
Sensei walked over, inspecting. When he noticed MeiMei's partner cringing and clutching his face, he, surprisingly, smiled.
"One thing you learn in Karate is PAYBACK. Not strictly martial-artist-y, though, I, and you, have to expect from your partner what you give them. When some of us get a bit -" here he glanced sharply at Mei-Mei, " - over-enthusiastic, you can only expect the same from your partner. Now I said LIGHT CONTACT. Don't make me get the pads out!" He nodded to MeiMei's partner and whispered "don't hurt her!" and continued to walk around and watch.
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Post by MeiMei on Sept 9, 2006 19:03:59 GMT -5
She only glanced down, giving her sensei a 'Yeah, sure, whaterer' sort of look.
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Post by Harem Del Villar on Sept 12, 2006 21:56:39 GMT -5
Harem watched in the corner like she always had. She observed the others and felt bad for mei mei's partners.
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Post by MeiMei on Sept 15, 2006 6:45:11 GMT -5
"Sensei, the chances of me getting hurt are about as high as I am short!" She said through a laugh, she was a wee bit arrogant in somethings, and she knew it.
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Post by Harem Del Villar on Sept 15, 2006 21:29:14 GMT -5
harem heard MeiMei's "joke" and scoffed.
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Post by Ryuji on Sept 16, 2006 10:56:23 GMT -5
Ryuji walked over to Harem and spoke. "Hey, why don't you try hitting the pad? Or, actually..." he went over to the corner and began rolling 'Steve' over. "how about you practice on Steve for a little while. It's not a real person, just a mannequin, so there should be no problem, right?" He said, encouragingly. "Here, why don't you try hitting his cheek bone like This" he said, wailing on the lifeless mannequin. "Okay, now you try." He said, nodding to her.
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Post by Harem Del Villar on Oct 5, 2006 18:48:22 GMT -5
Harem stared at the doll and then back at the teacher. She felt a little insulted and embarrassed to be fighting with a doll, but she didn't let any of it show on her face.
Putting the doll "Steve" in a standing position. Harem positioned herself in the right stance, making sure that a minimal amount of people were watching. Then she stroke the doll on his left cheek and left. Harem's movements alternated as she gained speed. A light 'thwacking' noise joined in on the grunts and yells of the other students working hard.
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Post by Ai on Dec 5, 2006 22:55:32 GMT -5
Ai smiled at the scene of Harem hitting the dummy. She turned back to her partner and resumed what she was doing. She did the drills restraining herself from hitting too hard. After all it was a practice.
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