Beach time sparring partner (open)

[kruzy]

Kruzy was at the beach. Wearing a white tank top, the peirced out a nice size aray of biceps and tri-cepts, somthing that came with a nice every other day of rigerous training. Along with his onsomble (sp) he had on blue swimming trunks, and 4 weights. Two weights on his wrist, and two tied around his ankles. He was working out, helping a little strength, but mainly his endurance. He was running along the coastline. In about 3 feet of water, where it made it very difficult to move, trying to fight against the pressure. He ran about a half-mile in this, till he bacame a bit tired, then returned to his "home-base"

His home base consisted of a beach umbrella, flared out making shade, a pretty abnormal sized beach blanket, and a bucket filled with at least ten iced water bottles.
He grabbed a water bottle slightly out of breath, opened it and downed half the bottle. Then took a little rest.... well, at least 20 minutes... running wasn't his attributes as of now.

Kruzy then stood up, stretched for about another 5-10 minutes, then proceeded to to a boxing/kick0boxing training. Keeping the weights on his wrist's and ankle.... a kick here, a fast jab here and thier, another kick, kick, punch, uppercut.... any type of kick or swing, while moving around in a jagged patern to not leave himself open. As he trained like this for about another ten minutes, he say sombody along the coastline, it was maybe about ten in the morning, so maybe if could've been sombody working out.... hopfully they would notice Kruzy,and maybe they could team up for practicing....

[Dante Williams]

Dante strolled through the beach casually. This was about the first time he'd been to a beach, he didn't care for it much. But now he saw what the big deal was about them.

The sun shined brightly on his face, the sand tickled his feet, teasing them. And everything seemed to be in motion, "This place is great." Dante said while stretching his arms.

Then he saw Kruzy training by himself. "Kruzy!" Dante yelled as he ran over to him, "It seems like I haven't seen you forever."

Then he chuckled after remembering seeing Kruzy fighting his imaginary opponent, "You know," He said, "Fighting air usually won't do you any good..."

Slowly, he got into a battle pose, one hand in front of him, the other at his side, waiting to defend, "Fighting actual people helps some." He chuckled and then said, "So, how 'bout it Kruzy?"

Dante was itching to fight, he wanted to prove to himself that he was a good fighter. After his loss to Tiao, he figured out how much he actually needed to learn.

Sparring with Kruzy will definetely help me get stronger! Dante thought as he remembered seeing Kruzy fight foe after foe in the Watchmen's last attempt to keep Varron safe.

[kruzy]

Kruzy smiled a bit at first when Dante ran over to him, Kruzy nodded in a hello type of manner, while still controlling his breathing, as he through the last couple punches in the air, and a last kick, his foot falling fast to the ground with the weight.

"Hey man.... well i guess if you'd like to, i have no problem, may be better off that way"... Kruzy smiled, happy to have sombody to train with.
"Ill do it this way... we can have two rounds... the frist round we can go with me keeping the weights on my legs and wrist, the second round... ill take them off and see if my punches have a bit more impact and speed to them"..

"Sound good Dante?" Kruzy said lastly.... while putting his fist in front of his face. His right hand, his dominant hand out further than his left. His body positioned slightly sideways, right foot first.

"You ready?"

[Dante Williams]

"Ill do it this way... we can have two rounds... the frist round we can go with me keeping the weights on my legs and wrist, the second round... ill take them off and see if my punches have a bit more impact and speed to them"

"Well..." Dante hesitated, not sure what to say, "The first round sounds kind of unfair... so I'll put the weights on my feet for the first round."

Later, after tying the weights to his legs, he grinned and, "Sooo, yeah it sounds good to me now!"

He analyzed Kruzy's movements, it seemed he was just shifting his weight to his right foot.

"You ready?"

"Sure!" Dante said after getting into battle stance again.

Dante usually never striked first, wasn't his style, but seeing as how Kruzy had more of a handicap, Dante went for it.

He dove forward, though he was weighed down by the weights, he was still fast. Also, since he was swaying for a while, it built his momentum so when he dove, it was faster and stronger.

He crouched and dashed behind Kruzy, hoping to elbow the backs of his leg, causing him to fall down.

If Kruzy dodged in any way, Dante would fall back. No need to get hit by a counterattack. Dante thought.

[kruzy]

Dante dashed to go behind Kruzy, which only accomplished the fact that he got behind him for a second. With most of the weight on Kruzy's right foot, which was placed in front of him, Kruzy rolled foward. Dodging the attack only to be getting up again a couple feet away from Dante, as if they were starting over.

Kruzy put his hands back to block his face, a normal boxing position. Tho his hands were getting a little tired of being held up for so long. Since he was practicing alone for a while... Kruzy had the disadvantage of endurance, slightly tired, Kruzy took a deep breath, fighting the burn in his biceps.

Kruzy then waited for Dante to get back to his own stance. While Kruzy was going to try for the attack this time, starting in the same position as he was just in.
He breathed deeply, and ran foward, rushing head on with Dante. With about two feet of space between them, to leave room so that he couldn't be knee'd, he dove in a tackle motion, diving towards Dantes mid-section, and if contacted bringing him to the ground. But if he were to dodge or counter, he could get Kruzy off gaurd for a second.

[Dante Williams]

((Sorry for the short reply))

After missing Kruzy's attack, Dante jumped back and stood up.
"Well," Dante said, "It seems we're back where we started."

Right then, Kruzy ran towards Dante and attempted to attack his mid-section.

Not surprised, Dante shifted the weight of his body to his left, and spun out of the way. Then when Dante was out of range from Kruzy, he immediately stopped and saw that Kruzy was still in the air, so Dante tried to elbow Kruzy's back in an attempt to bring him down.

He didn't bring down his elbow too hard of course, he remembered that Kruzy had a pain in his back and also this was just a spar.

This is why I normally don't attack first... Dante said to himself calmly as he carried out his plan, then he thought, This match is as good as over.

[kruzy]

Dante's elbow hit the middle of Kruzy's back. A small sensation tingled up and down his spine a little as the whiplash he had one had seemed to of accured again. Kruzy fell down to his knees though, barely falling too much mroe foward to land face first in the sand, and he sat thier for a second, trying to endure the pain at first. ~Im glad it wasn't that hard.....~ Kruzy thought to himself... he knew that Dante didn't strike as hard as he could've... which was a good thing... Kruzy's back needs time to heal.

Kruzy stood back up slowly... twisting his back from side to side... stretching it out some more, gritting his teeth as it cracked tiwce. He smiled when he finally got to another fighting stance, this time back in defense mode to say....

"I guess thats somthing i need to work on... so let me try defending again shall we?" Kruzy said while putting his fist's back into place.... looking at Dante's eyes now, a better way to follow a person's next move.

[Dante Williams]

OOC: So sorry for the late reply

As Dante felt the impact of his elbow hitting Kruzy's back, he grinned and thought, Strike One!

As Kruzy hit the soft sand of the beach, Dante jumped back in case Kruzy would try anything.

But he didn't. He just got up and went into a fighting stance and siad, "I guess thats somthing i need to work on... so let me try defending again shall we?"

Dante lazily stuffed his hands inside of his pockets and shifted his weight to his right, allowing a quick escape.

This time I'm not striking first. Dante thought calmly as he said to Kruzy, "Your move."

By putting his hands in his pockets, Dante was hoping to give Kruzy a boost of confidence that Kruzy could beat him and attack.

But when he comes, Dante thought while grinning, I'll be waiting for him...

[kruzy]

(OOC: Late post, but ive been sick and working.. sorry)

Kruzy frowned at Dante.... Kruzy said he wanted to defend... but he just wasn't listening apparently... ~whatever.... ~ He thought to himself... Kruzy would just attack.

Kruzy looked at Dante, his hands in his pockets.... not the smartest of ways to fight or defend, thought their are differnent fighting styles, but it would still slow down movements ever so slightly. Anyways.. he ever so slightly started walking around Dante. His fist still held up blocking his face, walking in a side step motion as a wolf would pounder and think of its next attack.
Kruzy did this for a few rotations, thinking what would be the most logical postion for a strike. The rear would just be expected, as most fighters know this, the front... obviously a bad idea.... but what about the sides.... maybe a fast sprint, towards Dantes side, and running at an angle to not comfront his face to face, as if running at somthing else..... eh... why not.

Kruzy sprinted off, slowly at first as his feet sunk into the sand, and then picked up some speed... he stared Dante in the eyes the whole time, as most fighters would watch as well to predict movement and what would be attacked first.
As Kruzy entered Dante's range of area, Kruzy was a bit to Dante's left, out of range of his right hand, which would lesson a blow from balance if defended against. But this time instead of another tackle, Kruzy did somthing different. He reached out with hisleft arm, where he went to grab Dante.... his intentions would be to grab onto Dante, using the force of launching off his running start and send a left knee to Dante's mid-section. If anything, this attack could of been blocked in a range of ways... but it sould at the least knock both opponents over, as the force of Kruzy's running, and gravity, would pull them both down, the is if any part of Kruzy made contact with him