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

[whitelotustile]

Iroh nodded. "Environment is key. So is state of mind. The elements lend themselves to certain approaches, though a certain... flexibility of thought can be useful as well."

Firebending was like that. Fire itself was emotion, but lightning needed the stillness of setting emotion aside. Even lightning redirection required a bit of that: focus to create the path that brought the lightning through you in the way you wanted, and not where it wanted to go, but also the idea of the lightning as something that could be redirected. Redirection was something waterbenders or airbenders knew, but didn't come naturally to firebenders, who were usually taught that the best defense was a good offense.

[akito]

Curious, since he never had the chance to properly talk to a Firebender before, Akito asks: "What's it like being able to Bend fire?"

[whitelotustile]

Iroh thought about this for one time. "It means I never had to worry about lighting a stove."

Because the real answer was complicated. Fire was necessary for life, but could burn, had often been used to burn people. And Iroh had been a soldier and a firebender, so he remembered that.

[akito]

"Or boiling water?" He laughs a little, under his breath. If he had to explain what it was like being a Waterbender now he doesn't think he could manage it, even though he knows what it was like not to be one for so many years.

[whitelotustile]

"That is exactly the right mindset," Iroh said. "Most firebenders would try to boil water by simply producing a great deal of fire, but that makes a lot more steam than simply heating the water."

Iroh could do metal as well. In many ways, it was easier than water.

[akito]

Akito pulls a face at that. "It would be an inefficient use of energy. Even heating metal would work better, since the metal would keep the heat absorbed longer than the air, and could heat the contents over time with less energy."

[whitelotustile]

Iroh nodded. "But it is one of the tricks firebenders learn first. And focusing on solids requires a stillness that creating fire doesn't."

And heating solids as a fighting technique usually required close quarter combat, which most firebenders were trained to avoid.

[akito]

Understandable, he supposes. "It's easier to stick to the basics then, ne?"

[whitelotustile]

"Easier on the body and the mind," Iroh commented. "Not always the best action, though, but patterns become ingrained into people."