OPEN ✤ training sessions

[akito]

Characters: Wanijima Akito & OPEN
Date: October catch-all
Location: All over; mostly Wood Sector
Situation: Multiple... Mostly training.
Warnings/Rating: n/a
Notes: This is a free for all log, so feel free to handwave the training and just interact with the other characters, or Akito, at a particular lesson/training session. Make sure to include which week your tag takes place in! Seriously - go nuts!


Beginner's Self-Defense
- Location: Wood Sector
- Days: Mon/Wed/Fri
- Time: 7:00am - 11:00am

Akito promised he would have training for beginners, and he isn't about to back out of something so important. The first month of training will be spent learning basic punching and kicking techniques, and practicing agility. It's important to know your body and it's limits, so you know when you can push them. He will also be very strict about injury prevention.

(open to Ryou, Enjorlas, and any other characters who want to start learning basic self defense techniques. he will eventually work up to teaching some simple knife skills.)



Advanced Group
- Location: Wood Sector
- Days: Mon/Wed/Fri
- Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

He hasn't organized this in an effort to teach, but merely for the more skilled fighters on Keeliai to meet each other and discuss their techniques, and have the opportunity to spar with each other.



Taint Detecting
- Location: Anton's Hotel
- Days: Tues/Sat (starting 10/03/14)
- Time: 8:00am - 2:00pm

Thanks to Solomon's notes and lesson outlines, Akito does his best to teach the skill he's learned to others. Whether or not he's successful is up for debate, since he can't quite reproduce Karanea's exact lessons.

He'll be very strict about not causing a mess for Anton, since his hotel still hasn't completely recovered from its recent damage.



Hatchling Defense
- Location: Wherever the hatchling in question is located.
- Days: Varies between Tues/Wed/Sat
- Time: 3:00pm - 6:00pm Tues/Sat & 8:00am - 11:00am Sat

If any of the turtle hatchlings want to learn some self-defense, Akito will do his best to accommodate them. He doesn't know much about how a turtle would be able to fight, but he'll focus on them using their size to their advantage, and stress that they should never be afraid to bite someone who is trying to harm them.



Bending Training
- Location: Wood Sector
- Days: Sun
- Time: 8:00am - 12:00pm

Akito doesn't expect Zuko or Wan to show up, but he's hoping the other Benders he's contacted will come to train with him, and each other. He knows a good fighting technique that requires both air and fire elements - one that he, Agito, and Kazu had used before to great effect - and hopes he can pass it along successfully.

Since training will end at noon, he'll make sure to take the time to make lunch for everyone who turns up.



Etc.
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Hopefully this works for everyone! If I need to change anything just let me know.

Comments

it's fine!

[onethirdthesoul]

"So...I could probably just hit them in the stomach," since Ryou could hardly think of a softer spot on the human body than that. "I think I can manage that, in an emergency..."

Ryou didn't want to have to resort to violence if he could help it. Unfortunately, the past week has made it abundantly clear that he needed to at least be ready if he had to. The problem was he didn't feel ready, and even though he knew it would take more than one class to change that, discouragement continued to eat at him.

"I hope...what if I'm not strong enough for it to actually help?"

[akito]

Tired as he is, it's hard to keep his irritation in check, but he manages. He gestures to himself. "My body is weaker than most of the people in this city, and I can still do enough to help. If I'm teaching it, it will work for anyone who actually tries."

[onethirdthesoul]

Ryou felt a little bad now for asking now so he nodded and moved on, "Then I'll try my best. I really want to learn, I guess I'm just a little nervous because I'm new to all this."

He balled his hand up, making a proper fist and looking thoughtfully at it. Three days a week... He might have to adjust what days he can work at Korra's dojo, but it shouldn't be a problem.

"Okay, what's next, Gazelle-san?" If Akito was going to be teaching him, he figured he deserved a -san.

[akito]

"Being nervous is good. It means you're the kind of person who won't fight unless given no other option." Akito isn't positive on that, but figures it's a fairly safe bet.

"Next are basic kicks. I'm much better at fighting with my legs than my arms, so I'll probably focus more on the lower body." When forced to fight and live in a straitjacket one gets used to not using their hands.

1/2

[onethirdthesoul]

Ryou nodded with earnest, "I'd like to avoid fighting at all if I could." Akito was certainly right in his deductions there.

He listened carefully as Akito went on, kicking his feet idly as he did.

2/2

[onethirdthesoul]

Ryou swallowed, looking a little comical in his distress. "...So, I won't be at risk of breaking my foot too, will I? Maybe I should invest in some heavy duty boots."

He waved his hand a bit, trying to move on, "Anyway, I'm ready."

[akito]

"Heavy boots will weigh you down and weaken your kicks, as well as make it easier for an enemy to catch you if you try to flee."

Akito isn't sure how quickly he'll be able to teach Ryou, but he can at least try. Before bothering to show him a basic kick, he decides to try imparting on him some wisdom. "Someone once said 'whether you think you can, or can't, you're right.'"

[onethirdthesoul]

"I'll just stick to sneakers, then..," Ryou said it as an afterthought, looking down at his feet. As he wiggled his toes he decided he liked his sneakers more than boots anyway. He looked up again as Akito went on.

"I think I see what you're trying to say, Gazelle-san," smiling minutely at that encouraging tidbit, Ryou felt a little more confident. He was still naturally clumsy and it was going to take a lot more than some motivational quotes for him to be proficient here, but it was the thought that counts. "No matter what, I'll just have to try my best. I won't complain anymore, I promise."

[akito]

Akito nods, glad the other boy is beginning to understand. "The most important thing you can do is keep a positive attitude. A negative attitude weighs you down both mentally and physically."

[onethirdthesoul]

"Right..." he nodded, that smile fading away as Ryou began to worry again. A negative attitude is all he's had since Emily-Helen's death, even if right now the social-factor might have made him a little less so.

He'll go ahead and prepare to copy whatever Akito does, but in the meantime he tried to keep talking, lest his thoughts start to wander from the silence. "Have you been doing this a long time, Gazelle-san?"

[akito]

"Eh?" The question catches him off-guard. "Doing what?"

[onethirdthesoul]

"You know, self-defense training," Ryou was more than willing to elaborate. "I bet you could teach at Korra's dojo if you wanted to."

[akito]

"Oh... Um, I've never taught it to anyone before," a shrug. "I was just trained in this sort of thing since before I can remember."

[onethirdthesoul]

"Eh, really? I would have never guessed," Ryou paused momentarily, and then went on. "That probably explains why they kidnapped you too..."

Considering the lack of tact, one might wonder if Ryou had really paused to think at all.

[akito]

"If they meant to kidnap someone who could fight, then they didn't mean to kidnap me. I know how to defend myself, but I said before that this body is weak." He manages to keep his irritation in check - barely. "If they wanted me to participate in a real fight this body would collapse on me before I could be useful."

He's exaggerating of course, but not by a whole lot. Without Agito, or his friends to urge him on and re-energize him, his stamina will be even less than it usually was. And it wasn't that great to begin with.

[onethirdthesoul]

Ryou wasn't sure what to say to something like that. It was hard to tell if Akito's feelings on his body being that weak were literal, or just psychological. "I don't think you're weak, Gazelle-san. It takes a strong person to not let other people push them around."