Side Story Fun (IC)
(OOC- Sorry for the delays. tough week at work, a side gig, and I caught the flu. I still have it or I'd be answering the phone right now).
He'd heard stories of the orphanages and faster homes of the city - none of them good, some of them uniquely horrifying. He wasn't sure what he could possibly say that would help, and she might get offended by sympathy when the whole point was to make her stronger.
He settled for a momentary sympathetic look, and another silent thanks to whatever powers that be that he'd at least had his father's death benefits and his mother to raise him. Then he returned to the training.
"Muay Thai does that very well, but lots of styles use elbows and knees. Our sensei favored them because you can swing them when someone gets in your face or you are in a clinch.
We toughened up our elbows a bit, but NOTHING like Muy Thai. One student asked about it, a few times. We were encouraged to watch videos on different martial arts, and it's impressive. Someone asked sifu about it, and he responded.
He stopped for a moment to copy his late master's mannerisms and light Russian accent and torqued his arm a bit.
"I respect Muay Thai and the warriors who practice it, but I can deform STEEL if I punch with this limb. I don't care how many times you whack a tree, if you try and block a limb like this... or even has a knife, you are critical pizdek.
He returned to his normal speech patterns. He had this crazy idea of trying to punch the concrete with his cybernetic limb, but he managed to suppress the instinct to try and show off.
Our dojo trains core, balance, flexibility, and strength training, with a heavy focus on grip and core strength. I'll give you some basic excercises to try yourself daily. If you can manage these, we'll start the hard stuff next time.
It's gonna be critical. Wear something you don't mind seeing get ruined, and bring 2 liters of water. No, I'm not kidding, because you are going to yarf all over the place when you start doing proper conditioning for the first time.
Shin-Ji certainly had. Not that he was going to say anything to Vamp about that. He'd thought he'd been in good shape when he joined his claat. He'd been wrong.
Speaking of which, the clinch is another C item. If I were to grab you by the collar with intent to harm you, how would you respond in a fight situation?
Normally, he wouldn't talk her through this exercise, but Vamp clearly had good combat instincts and practical fighting experience, and there was little point in this kind of screwing around when he had cyber arms and a good 40-50 pounds on her.
He wanted to hear what she'd do though. The point was to get the other person to think about confrontation and their options.