Morning Training [OPEN]

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Characters: Everyone!
Location: Training Grounds, Shibusen
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Time: 6am to 9am
Description: Every morning in the city, Morning Training takes place to prepare the guests of the city for the war. It's handwaved most days, but approximately once a month this gets played out in a log. This log takes place on February March 4th.

Official Areas:

FAQ: Questions answered by Maito Gai
Breakfast:Run by Saya Tagaki, Yugo
Batch One: Beginners under the age of 15. Run by Auron, Steve Rogers, Deryn
Batch Two: Adult beginners. Run by Maito Gai, Tifa Lockhart, Cloud
Batch Three Intermediate fighters. Overseen by Hyuuga Neji. Please see list of random sparrers.
Batch Four: Experienced fighters, for sparring with each other. Overseen by Kratos and Maes Hughes.
Weapon Transformation: How to find your form. Run by Yuuri.
Partner Training: How to work together as partners. Run by Tassadar; Soul; Eve; Crona and Ragnarok
Weapons Handling Training: Run by Genesis Rhapsodos, Tenten, Kerrigan
Shooting Range: How to Shoot. Run by Leon, Naoto.
Meister Ability Helpers, merged with Soul Perception: How to find it out. Run by Death the Kid, Edgeworth, Azusa. (DtK will be the one doing Perception.)
Finding a Partner: For unpartnered Meisters and Weapons to mingle and find each other. Overseen by Sasame.
First Aid Training: run by Kira Izuru.
Medics: A place for the medics to get to know each other and mingle.
Watch: For Watch people (and prospective new members) to gather, talk, and train.
Hug Brigade: Come get hugs! Run by Maes Hughes, Maito Gai, Tenma
How To Be Cool: Taught by Date Masamune, officially labeled the 'Putting Your Guns On' area.

For training via sparring:
Maes Hughes
Hyuuga Neji
Steve Rogers
Crona
Maito Gai
(Various NPCs available upon request)
Partner vs Partner sparring is also good!

Feel free to make your own threads!



Breakfast
Stripperella [Open]
Jun [Open]
Domon [Open]
Inukashi [Open]
Sendo [Open]
Pascal [Open]


Batch One
Dawn [Open]
Jun [Open]

Batch Four
Ms. Fortune [Open]
Domon [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Alucard [Open]
Samus [Open]

Weapon Transformation
Clare [Open]

Weapons Handling
Saya [Open]
Yugo [Open]

Shooting Range
Re-L [Open]

Soul Perception/Meister Ability
Dawn [Open]
Six [Open]

Finding a Partner
Dawn - Meister [Open]
Londo - Weapon [Open]
Six - Meister [Open]
Bakura - Weapon [Open]
Demona - Meister [Open]
Stripperella - Meister [Open]
Temeraire - Weapon [Open]
Jun - Meister [Open]
Domon - Meister [Open]
Neji - Meister [Open]
Kei - Weapon [Open]
Yami Bakura - Meister [Open]
Yugo - Meister [Open]
Duo - Weapon [Open]
Re-L - Meister [Open]
Auron - Meister [Open]
Clare - Weapon [Open]
Amateresu - Meister [Open]
Samus - Weapon [Open]

First Aid
Bakura [Open]
Teresa [Open]

Medics
Amateresu [Open]

Watch
Temeraire [Open]
Stripperella [Open]
Neji [Open]
Re-l [Open]
Gai [Open]
Genesis [Open]
Kerrigan [Open]

Hug Brigade
Stripperella [Open]
Bayonetta [Open]
Taiyou [Open]

Other
Naoto [Open]
Gai [Open]
Saya [Open]
Demona [Open]
Stripperella [Open]
Kanji [Open]
Duo [Open]
Aion [Open]
Auron [Open]
Raidou [Open]
Thor [Open]
Ms. Fortune [Open]
Loki [Open]
Amateresu [Open]
Clare [Semi-open]
Willa [Open]
Lili [Open]
Merrill [Open]
Hinata [Open]
Obito [Open]
Tifa, Cloud, Kanji [Closed]
Hitsugaya [Open]
Ed Elric [Open]
Hiccup [Open]

Comments

[nofarplaneyet]

*Knowing your limits is the first lesson. Gold star for you.*

Alright, Jun. My name's Auron and I'm one of the trainers for the beginners. Do you have any preference for any weapons at all?

[pokaccenteballs]

Auron, huh? Gotcha! [Here's to hoping he won't forget later on.]

And I've never even used a weapon before [Unless you count Poke Balls as weapons--or Pokemon, though Jun sees them more as partners.] so I'll try anything!

[nofarplaneyet]

*A raw beginner? Well. Even he started that way.* All right. There's a lot of sword type Weapons in the city so it wouldn't hurt if you knew how to use one. *Auron fishes out a likely wooden one for Jun.* First thing is to know how to hold a sword.

[pokaccenteballs]

Whoaaaa, cool! I've never seen a sword up close before! [He takes the wooden sword with one hand and begins slashing the air in all sorts of directions. A few moments later, he switches hands and does pretty much the same thing. Not too long after doing so, he takes a moment to admire the sword. MAN A SWORD HOW COOL IS THAT.

...A few seconds later, he realizes he should probably try and hold it the right way. He'll take the sword with both hands and hold it so that it's parallel to him, just as he's seen cartoon characters do on TV before.]

Hey, hey, am I doing it right?

[nofarplaneyet]

*So young to learn to fight by most people's standards. But not Auron's. He started using the sword at age 5.*

You have to have your body in the right stance too. Watch. *Strapped to Auron's back is a huge sword, nearly as tall as he is. He draws the sword and holds it in both hands and assumes a basic stance, something that can have him move easily in any direction.*

[pokaccenteballs]

[DANG THAT'S A HUGE SWORD. It's so huge it temporarily distracts Jun from doing what he was told to do.

Fortunately, his willingness to learn is enough to snap him out of it. He'll attempt the same stance as Auron now.]

OK, this good? [His stance isn't 100% like Auron's, but it's getting there. And it's a lot better than the stance he had earlier.]

[nofarplaneyet]

*Auron walkd around around and correctd Jun's stance with gentle nudges here and there.*

All right. Now you have to be able to swing the sword properly. *Auron assumes the stance again and swings the sword from left to right, right to left, up and down.*

[pokaccenteballs]

OK, here goes! [He'll attempt the same thing--Left to right, right to left, and up to down. Except much faster. Thus, the sword's movements end up a bit shaky.

Jun'll try it again, only a bit more slowly. This time, the movements are less shaky, but still not perfect.]

Man, this is harder than I thought! Got any tips?

[nofarplaneyet]

It is hard. Only thing that'll make it better is practice. You have to build muscle to learn to put power behind your strikes.

[pokaccenteballs]

Muscle, huh... [He isn't the bulkiest.]

All right, I'll do my best! [He'll continue with swinging the sword.] Is there anything else?

[nofarplaneyet]

Let's see you do 100 repetitions of that. Then we can try some blocking. Think you can do that?

[pokaccenteballs]

All right! [Left-right, right-left, up-down, left-right, right-left, up-down...

Eventually, he reaches the goal set for him.] OK, I'm ready to try blocking!

[nofarplaneyet]

*Oh, this kid is going to be sore in a few hours. At least he finished the exercise.*

Now. I'm going to attack you in the same pattern that you were practicing strikes. This time, you have to stop my blade before it touches you. *Be thankful he's not using the giant sword. He's taking mercy and using a dull practice blade.*