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Post by sakura on Jun 14, 2007 2:07:51 GMT 1
(Anyone, please feel free to join this thread)
Through the year, Sakura had finally calmed down after moving to San Francisco, giving her the time to finally pay attention to school work and not start up even anything minor. As Sakura studied in her apartment, she became frustrated at her monotonous life and slammed her pen down, standing up from her desk and went to her closet, pulling out her fighting apparel she hadn't worn for so long. She slipped it on after undressing and pulled a warm coat from the hanger by the door as she walked out, locking the door behind her. Sakura got onto her motorcycle, reved it up and sped off, heading for the school gym. In a few minutes, the street light lit school was seen up ahead and Sakura slowed down to stop, jumping the curb and parking by the bicycle rack. She jumped off the motorcycle, opened the seat cabinet, pulled out two rolled up cloth hand wrappings and walked towards the double doors that led directly into the training room.
Once inside, the slight stench of sweat filled the air, stopping Sakura in her tracks for a small second, then she walked forwards, finding and open bench and sitting down. She pulled off her coat and placed it on the bench so it would not get dirtied and then wrapped her hands with the cloth wrappings. Once ready, Sakura stretched and started to punch and kick a nearby punching bag, evaluating how rusty she had become. Though Sakura had not trained for over a year, she still had worn the weights that were given to her from Zerreth long ago as a memoir and a way to train herself when she was busy. After a long reevaluation, Sakura sat down on the bench and wiped off her sweat with a towel and sighed as she walked over to the vending machine and pulled out a water bottle, taking a gulp of it while walking back to her bench. She placed the water bottle down on the bench and looked over to see the boxing mat and smiled as she made a run for it. When she was a few feet away from the mat, she slowed down and pulled up the ropes as she slowly climbed in. Once inside the ring, she started to shadow box, seeing as how she was the only one inside the training room at the moment.
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Post by koenig on Jun 14, 2007 3:02:41 GMT 1
(As I sat in my Dorm room I looked around my room. It had been quite some time since I had done anything constructive for myself. Maybe today i should do something. I thought to myself as I lay on my bed with my headphones blaring. Looking over to the clock beside my bed I sighed. Finally rolling myself out of my bed I walked over to my closet. undressing myself down to my boxers, I grabbed my Muay thai shorts that were black with a red belt and flames on the trunks. I then preceeded to take my hand wraps and wrap up my hands down my to my forearms. Grabbing a roll of white athletic tape I taped up my ankles tightly. I didn't need any injuries while training.
Finally I grabbed the keys to my car and headed towards the school. Once I got into the parking lot I saw that there was only one other vehicle here. A motorcycle was parked over by the bike parking. Walking into the gym I looked around and spotted the owner of the motorbike. It was a girl, one whom I couldn't seem to recognize, even though something about her told me I had met her before.
Shrugging my shoulders I walked over to the heavybag and began to warm myself up. Throwing a couple of quick punching combonations, I followed up with a bunch of quick kicking combonations. Looking over my shoulder as I finished my kicking I noticed she was still shadowboxing in the ring. Finishing my warm up of a combonation of knees, then a combonations of elbows I walked over to the boxing ring and leaned on it watching the girl shadow box.)
"Nice form, quite accurate it seems and very quick. How long you been here training?"
(I asked before walking over to the vending machine and grabbing a water. Walking back i waited for her awnser as I leaned on the ring.)
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Post by sakura on Jun 14, 2007 20:28:45 GMT 1
Sakura finished her kata and gracefully spun as she sat down and sighed, looking over to the man. She recognized the face, but couldn't put a name to it, so she ignored the feeling and slid out of the mat. Sakura took a sip of her water and walked back to the ring, leaning on the ropes next to the man.
"I haven't been training long today... I just came by for the first time in ages."
Sakura took another sip of the water and threw it onto the bench, then sliding into the ring again. She tightened her wrapping and then jumped up and down a few times before calming down. Sakura crouched down and faced the man and smiled.
"Want to spar? It has been a while since I've done any fighting, it would be nice to have someone to take a refresher with."
(Kind of short... Sorry about that.)
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Post by koenig on Jun 15, 2007 4:24:38 GMT 1
(As she slid out of the ring I had a nagging feeling that i knew her, something about her told me that I should know who it was. Pushing my thoughts to the back of my head I listened to her words. Then as she got back into the ring I I heard her words again, it took me a couple of seconds to respond since I thought maybe I had heard her wrong.
She wanted to spar with me? okay, guess so. I thought to myself before putting my water bottle down on the side of the ring. Sliding into the ring I smiled as I stood at full height.)
"sure, I don't mind sparring with you, but first whats your name? I'm Bruce Gills"
(I said extending my right hand for a handshake. It would be better to find out her name before we got to beating each other. I thought to myself with a smile as I held my hand out)
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Post by sakura on Jun 15, 2007 18:26:55 GMT 1
As Sakura saw him sliding in, she had another feeling that she knew the man, but she again ignored the feeling, thinking it was mere coincidence. Sakura smiled and pulled out her hand to shake his before the man had fully stood up and suddenly froze as he introduced himself. She whispered to herself as memories from Japan flooded back and Sakura stood, looking blank for a few minutes. She dropped her hands and let them hang as she stared straight at the Bruce.
"It is you.... Bruce... Bruce!"
Sakura smiled as she hugged him and laughed. She calmed down and stood in front of him looked up at Bruce, seeing that he had grown stronger and taller.
"Don't you remember me? It's me, Sakura!"
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Post by koenig on Jun 17, 2007 21:37:00 GMT 1
(As I heard Sakuras words a bright boyish grin could be seen creeping across my face.
"It is you...Bruce...Bruce!"
Where the words that i heard before sakura grabbed me and gave me a big hug. I knew that I recognized her from somewhere. She looked different a bit, but she looked really good. Hugging her back I smiled.)
"Of course I remember you Sakura, how could I ever forget our fun time varron adventures"
(I said with a smile after she stepped back and looked up at me.)
"It's been such a long time since I have seen you my dear, how have things been?"
(I asked her as she stood there looking up at me)
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Post by sakura on Jun 18, 2007 2:41:39 GMT 1
Sakura smiled as she leaned on the ropes on her side of the ring and sighed.
"Well, like I said before, I stopped fighting for a while and started to pay attention to my studies again, but it became monotonous so I decided to come back to training to get back into fighting. I was doing well in school while fighting anyways..."
Sakura looked down at her bloated socks, which covered the 25 lb weights and crouched to roll down the socks, showing the weights to Bruce. She stood up after rolling down the socks and looked over to Bruce.
"I've been training with these weights passively. It helped me training my legs while I was studying or simply going around. I haven't taken them off ever since... Well, since a long time ago."
Sakura remembered Zerreth and was about explain, but a group of Hircine High students bursted through the door, most of which were part of the football team, laughing at each other's jokes and stopped as they saw Sakura, at which they laughed hard and walked up to her. The leader of the group, also the captain of the offensive line jumped up and held himself on the edge of the ring by holding onto the highest rope and patted Sakura.
"What are you doing here Saku? You're going to get hurt little lady! I don't think a nice girl like you should be around here..."
He laughed a bit, but slowly stopped as he looked over to Bruce and nodded in his direction.
"You really going to spar him Saku? He looks like he can KO you in a shot..."
Sakura smiled as she pushed the captain off the edge down again and walked up to Bruce as she did some simple stretches and looked up to Bruce. She spun to face 45 degrees away from squaring up to Bruce and got into her newfound Xing Yi stance, her right hand straight and parallel to the floor by her waist and her left hand up and blocking the upper body. Most of the weight was shifted to the back leg and her left was slightly lifted from the floor, giving Sakura good balance. She awaited Bruce to make the first move and indicated it by waving her hand to come at her.
"Shall we?"
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Post by jdmthe1st on Jun 19, 2007 3:58:18 GMT 1
Antonio has visited many gyms for the past week to look for wrestlers and fighters of every kind. He was still recovering from his loss at the title shot with Mikhail last week. He was still the top contender in the game and Mikhail would be going to another league meaning Antonio could be at the top if he tried his best after his recovery. He has 1 month off from his job and started his week by going to the training room.
Antonio walked in and he thought to himself as he looked around
'Wow. My gym is bigger than this but this gym has more people. That must be really cool having people to talk to while training. Oh hey whats that?'
Looking from the side he saw a guy that was really familar and he tried to remember his name and a girl he had never seen before but she was really attractive even Antonio would admit it. Why the heck would this girl challenge this guy he has met?
'Oh I know where this is going. This guy thinks he is big and tough, wait thats BRUCE! No no I didnt think that. He is a great guy. But did the girl challnege him? Wow she did! She must be either out of her mind or just really brave. Maybe I should stick around and watch. But then again I would draw alot of attention to myself with that football team over there. Never mind.'
Antonio watched from the sidelines and he would see how long this would go on. Antonio sat down and he wanted to see if Bruce saw the title shot match. He was looking for comments on the match in general because in a year or two Antonio would attempt to take the championship.
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Post by koenig on Jun 22, 2007 1:59:35 GMT 1
(Listening to sakura I nodded and smiled. When she showed me the weights she wore I smiled slightly on the inside, I rememberd a long time ago when i used to train myself with weights like those, they worked wonders since after the first couple of days you get used to them.
Watching the football team as they charged in I leaned back on the ropes. While the captain talked to saku as they called her. Suddenly she turned and walked up to me, when she got into her fighting stance I smiled. I loved girls like this, not scared of anything.
Raising my hands into a traditional boxing stance with my left hand forward I waited. WHen she indicated for me to take the first move I nodded my head. SHuffling forward until she was withen kicking distance, I fake lunged a couple of times off the back of my foot but catching myself with my front foot. After a couple of lunges I shot forward, throwing a quick looping left I aimed it to go around her front hand and catch her on the side of the head. I would follow up right behind the looping left By pivoting my hips to my left while throwing a right knee aimed for her ribs.
I didn't use all of my power since we were just having a spar, but I had enough respect for sakura to put a good amount of force into the strikes.)
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Post by sakura on Jun 22, 2007 4:51:02 GMT 1
ooc: I'm not exactly sure what you mean by fake lunges, but I think I can make a guess on what you mean. If I'm not correct, feel free to PM me to correct my mistake. Also, my raised hand is the left, which means i don't think you'll need to loop around my right hand (since my left is adjacent to your right).
ic: Sakura held her position, carefully watching to block just as Bruce's leg come up above her waist. She finally spotted a hook punch to her face, Sakura took a fast step forwards, spun and slid her back foot forwards until both of their right knees were touching. Sakura snapped a backfist at Bruce's face and then spun on his arm until she was behing him and aimed a backwards heel kick at Bruce's leg, right behind his right kneecap. Sakura spun with the kick and threw a few punches towards Bruce's back. She then ended by snapping a kick towards Bruce's right ankle, hoping to trip him.
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Post by koenig on Jun 22, 2007 22:26:26 GMT 1
ooc(oops my bad, didn't read it right, but yea u read the lunges right)
(As Sakura came forward My head snapped to the side slightly when her backfist connected, In the time it took for me to open my eyes back up from the shock of having an attack hitting me so quickly She was gone. Then suddenly I felt a hard blow tot he back of my right kneecap, dropping to one knee from the attack I Instantly rolled forward to escape the sudden barrage of attacks from sakura. Feeling a couple of punches on my back as I rolled forward I gained my feet and turned. The roll caused her last kick to hit nothing but air if she still threw it.
watching her I smiled. She was very good, something I did not expect.)
"I thought you said you were rusty my dear? Seems to me that you've been fighting for quite some time"
(I said to her as I motioned her to come at me. I then dropped into my traditional Muay Thai stance with my left leg forward and slightly bent about shoulder width apart from my other leg. I then raised my hands about half an inch over and in front of my head with my palms open and facing sakura)
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Post by sakura on Jun 23, 2007 0:01:19 GMT 1
Sakura's barrages of punches to Bruce's back came to an end as he rolled away, but she still tried to hit Bruce with her low kick, missing though in the end. She winked at Bruce as she got into her Bagua stance now.
"I practice now and then, nothing much. Still, I guess my fighting skills hadn't worn down as much as I expected."
Sakura ran towards Bruce until her foot could just barely touch his furthest reaching limb, in which she threw her whole weight into her right foot, which kicked outwards at Bruce's left knee, letting her left foot slid a bit to inch her body forwards. Whether it had connected or not, Sakura spun her leg to try and trip Bruce by hooking her right foot back, but if it had failed as she expected from fighting previous Muai Thaist, she also brought up her right forearm to move Bruce's arms from proctecting his body and then spun her chambered, left fist out straight for his chest. Sakura backed up enough to keep out of Bruce's kneeing and elbowing, the main sections a Muai Thaist uses to attack and switched once again into her Tekkyun stance, which consisted of moving slowly, but constantly and letting her arms move in two sperate circles, which moved in opposite directions, covering most, if not all, of Sakura's body.
To to side, Sakura saw her football playing collegues looking on in shock as her skills, some of which decided to ignore her from embarrasement that they had underestimated her so much. The captain came up and smiled, looking over to his friends and pulled out ten dollars.
"I put down ten on Saku's win."
Some of the others who were paying attention now decided to add in their money, taking their respective positions in the bets. As it stood, Sakura's side held more bets by only a few people. The captain laughed and raised his hand and roared.
"Give us a good fight you two!!"
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Post by koenig on Jun 24, 2007 21:04:57 GMT 1
(As Sakura ran forward at me I smiled. This was sure going to be fun. i thought to myself as i waited. Whens he reached me I saw her throw all th epower she had into her right for a kick. My upper body was still to far away for the kick to pose any threat to that part of my body. It was apparent she was aiming for my left leg which was leading. As the kick neared my left knee I did something very simple yet smething effective. Launching off my back right leg while pulling my left leg in and up to form a high knee this would cause her right to miss my leg by an inch at the most. As her kick missed I would launch forward with my left knee in the air aimed for her right side) ooc: if u dunt understand PM me and i can change to easier understand just a lil hungover rite now  |
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Post by sakura on Jun 24, 2007 21:57:04 GMT 1
As Sakura kicked, Bruce's left knee pulled back and up and his left knee launched out and kneed her right side. Sakura stopped herself from instinctually reeling back and grabbed Bruce's left leg with her right hand and threw a strong, hooking left punch right for his stomache, hoping to strike it twice. She then pushed Bruce's knee counter-clockwise to unbalance him, and then she brought up her right foot to swiftly kick Bruce's inner side of his leg. Sakura spun around and aimed a roundhouse kick right for his face.
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Post by jdmthe1st on Jun 25, 2007 2:14:56 GMT 1
(OOC: This is before Antonio and Sakura met.)
Antonio looked on and then Antonio relized something. This was a fighter who knew Tekkyun and Taekwondo judging from the way this girl was fighting. But this other fighter was not only a beast but he knew muay thai.
'Oh this girl better be careful. This guy only uses very simple kinds of kicks with knees, elbows and basic boxing strikes. Meaning this guy doesn't waste any time at all. But at the same time if he gets careless, even a spinning kick can catch him. This girl could have this fight if she stays away from the spinning kicks and keeps it up the way its going. But if not this guy only has to use 1-2 knees or elbows and thats it.'
Antonio keep watching and he noticed Sakura turning Bruce's knee then going for the inner side of his leg and then the face. But Bruce looked like he could fight back.
'Oh man that's going to suck if he takes an attack to the face.'
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Post by koenig on Jun 27, 2007 3:26:26 GMT 1
(As my knee was caught i still had my hands up to defend. While she threw two hard left hooks for my stomach the first one caught me by surprised and landed. Exhaling sharply as she hit me to soften the blow and to keep myself from being winded, I smiled, she was now in my world up close. As the second hook was coming for my stomach I threw a hard left elbow/forearm for her unprotected right face. Since she was holding my leg with one arm and throwing a hook with the other there wasn't much of a chance of her blocking from this close of range. The elbow if succesful would impact with the right side of her face the exact time her hook would connect with my stomach. The hooks to my stomach hurt sure, but i was willing to take them to dish out my own attacks)
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Post by sakura on Jun 27, 2007 4:45:12 GMT 1
As Sakura's second hook made contact, she spotted an elbowing coming straight from her blind spot, aimed for her head. Before she could react, the elbow had already made contact, making her choices of action very limited. Sakura simple let her body go along with the elbow, softening the punch slightly, but also let her hand still grip onto Bruce's leg and tried to flip him by raising his leg up fast and hard. She then spun around clockwise, rose her right foot up into the air and brought it down towards Bruce's back if he fell or his left shoulder if he hadn't fallen. She then let her foot slide off his back or shoulder, either punching down onto Bruce's back or throwing three hard punches to Bruce's back.
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Post by koenig on Jun 27, 2007 21:42:46 GMT 1
(As my elbow made contact I was utterly surprised at how tough sakura was. Quickly she threw my leg upwards in an attempt to flip me backwards. Luckily for me Muay thai teaches the fighter to keep his balance, especially on one leg since a lot of attacks are knees and awkward kicks. The throw up however made me lean back putting me off balance enough that All I could do was watch her spin and kick at my left shoulder. Using my left hand I brought my fist near my head while throwing my elbow up in a rising elbow towards her leg. This caused the attack to not hit my shoulder but instead be blocked.
Since I was off balance the blocked kick knocked me onto my back hard, slightly winding me from the impact. Looking up to see her throwing a punch down at what would noe be my chest/stomach I took the hit and exhaled the rest of my breath trying to soften the blow. While her hand would make contact I would grab her wrist by reaching across with my right hand, and then i would further secure the grab by grabbing her tricep with my other hand. Pulling down as hard as I could this would most likely make her bend over bringing her head in closer. At that time I would throw a right knee upwards towards my chest which would go for her leaned in chin. There wouldn't be as much power as normal since I was laying on my back, but if it hit it would most likely stun her for a second. If hit I would let go and roll backwards to gain distance.)
ooc: not sure if i read ur attack right, but if i didn't PM me and i'll change
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Post by sakura on Jul 2, 2007 1:53:06 GMT 1
ooc: what you read was correct, so no worries.
ic: Sakura's attacked blurred as the hit to her face began to take a slight toll, but regained her full vision just before Bruce pulled her body down, trying to knee her face. She knew trying to resist against the attack would be inevitable considering Bruce's size and Sakura's own size, so she did one of the most unexpected things: Sakura aided in accelerating her decent towards Bruce's knee. Just before Sakura's head would hit Bruce's knee, she turned her body slight so that her forehead was in front and was aimed at his thigh, hurting him more than her. Sakura then brought her left foot forwards to face away from Bruce and then spun her body, attempting to throw Bruce over her body and onto the ground, though she would also fall. Sakura would then spin so that her elbow would dig into Bruce's body once they fell and touched the ground, possibly dealing heavy damage, then spun away once his grip was loose, getting distance and standing up.
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Post by koenig on Jul 2, 2007 19:51:32 GMT 1
(As she hleped her descent towards my knee I was shocked when instead of feeling the satisfaction of someones chin crunching on my knee, i felt my thigh sear with pain. Grinning as I felt the all to familiar pain rush through my leg I felt myself suddenly getting flipped over her. As I hit the ground I felt her elbow dig into my stomach hard. As blood shot out of my lips and dripped down my chin I felt the pain shoot through my stomach.
As she got up and distanced herself I rolled backwards and got up with a big grin on my face. As I smiled I had blood dripping down my chin and covering my exposed teeth. Wiping the blood off my chin I kept smiling)
"that's very very good saku. If I wasn't so used to pain i'm fairly sure I would have been floored for quite a bit longer....but luckily for me pain is something I have embraced many times"
(I said as I stood straight. Then suddenly I rushed forward, as I came withen striking distance I threw a right roundhouse kick, the kick was aimed about an inch in front of her face. For most people seing a kick come this close they would think it was going for their head, this would cause them to either bring their hands up or move back or something. Missing on purpose I would put my leg down on the ground once it passed her and touque my hips to my left continuing to use the momentum of the kick to spin and throw a hard left spinning backfist aimed for the left side of her face. I normally wouldn't use an attack like this in a spar since it's mainly a knock out attack, but as the fight wore on my respect for saku had gone way higher and I had a feeling that if i didn't start fighting for real she would beat me.)
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