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Lazy Man's Training Regimen [Joshua/Hana]

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Sun Sep 17, 2023 6:06 pm

“Let’s start by seeing your sword forms again, now that you’ve got a new appreciation of em,’” Joshua offered after a few moments, and they fell into what probably looked like a standard training session. Hana demonstrated some of the typical sword katas taught at the Academy, and as compared to the first time Joshua had awoken to Hana trying to remember them on her own she was doing quite well. It was obvious to Joshua that the motions, which she’d originally followed without much in the way of conviction, now had both purpose and an understanding of it. He nodded along, pointing out a handful of adjustments to make as they made progress.

After about half an hour of those, Joshua signaled for her to stop.
“Got a good sense of what the moves are for now I see. I think you’ve come a good way in a little amount of time. So, how about a slight change in our training regimen?” he asked as he took a few steps away from Hana before turning around, flashing her a smile as he drew his blade with a little flourish.
“We ain’t ever had a spar, but I think we’re at a point where we can change that. The katas are good an all; you want the moves to become part of yer reflexes. But ya gotta be careful of it becomes too much of just following the motions. It’ll make you predictable. So, we’ll put those motions into practice in a setting where you’ll have to learn to shift the moves up and adapt to someone else’s movements. I’ll give you the first swing,” Joshua explained, before leaving the floor open for Hana to move.

He stood there with a very casual stance, his blade in one hand and held at an almost sloppy angle. Joshua would give Hana the first few strikes in truth; he wanted a chance to gauge just how quickly she would end up moving and striking so he could roughly match that speed. It wouldn’t do any good to simply overpower or blitz her; she wouldn’t learn a thing from that. So instead he’d get a good sense of what her reflexes could handle before he shifted and launched a counter-attack.




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Tue Sep 19, 2023 10:06 pm
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Enter: Hana Aoyama

Hana did as Josh asked. Her forms were almost perfection, each step as accurate as they should have been when under no real stress to complete them. Her footwork had improved and her swing was strong. She had been focusing on her skills for a few months now, which included a lot of late night training and sneaking peeks at others who were better than her to get ideas.

"I believe my progress in these simple demonstrations is on par with a seated officer," Hana said without an ounce of pride, but more like a computer making an analytical judgement. "Though, maybe not a high seated officer... Haha."

"What sort of change do you mean?" Hana asked curiously. It was always more difficult for her to take a new step, as if she was always cemented in what she could currently accomplish. He drew his blade, showing off his superior hand-eye coordination with a fancy flourish. Hana tried mimicking it, not realizing if she kept doing that, she would end up fighting very similar to him. Josh would realize mimicry had become Hana's way of being confident in trying new things.

"A spar..." Hana's confidence drained from her voice. She let out a nervous sigh, clearly not excited about the idea. She knew he was right though, so she nodded and readied herself. Holding her unsheathed zanpakuto with two hands, she faced him. She noticed the weak stance and momentarily glared at him. "Why are you holding your sword like a child? I assume there is a good reason for it."

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Thu Sep 21, 2023 6:25 pm

“So you can see the holes in the stance and defense,” Joshua replied cheerily. “Much as my ol’ friends from the Eleventh might disagree, fightin’ is as much a test of yer mind and yer muscles. If your opponent out-thinks ya you gotta make up that difference, and vice-versa. The trick is to slowly make it second nature for your mind to notice where your opponent is lacking, and figuring out how to take advantage of that. Battle is all about establishing an advantage and pressing it. Now, draw your sword and let us get started.”

There was of course more to it than that. Joshua’s sloppy stance could be used to throw an opponent off as well, expecting a less skilled response when they tried to attack or when Joshua attacked. That wasn’t the intent here though; bluffs of that nature had their place, and Hana would surely need to learn them (likely sooner rather than later), but not in their first spar. Maybe if Hana had been cockier about her skill or power, but she was here earnestly trying to learn. Joshua wasn’t the type to stomp all over that.




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Enter: Hana Aoyama

Hana let herself ruminate on Josh's words for a short time. In her battles, her mind never felt challenged, and it was the same for her training. With the rapid absorption of study material that she had been reading through, she felt confident in her understanding of theories around shinigami combat fundamentals. Her book knowledge of it all was fine. It was the practical, the use of it, that held her back.

"Truthfully,” Hana said, drawing her zanpakuto as instructed. “I think my mind is satisfactory for the level I mean to be at. It is often my body that fails me. I am too slow or not strong enough to handle an opponent.” Hana gripped her sword with both hands, staring at the blade with angry, narrowed eyes. Realizing what she was doing, she shook her head and took a deep breath and readied herself in stance.

“Okay, I’m ready when you are.”

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