Gym-Wednesday Evening

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip pounds on the bag and tries not to think about the math test and how he did on it. He's also trying to ignore the neck pain which tends to come from sleeping on the couch in a weird position.


Paige would be stopping by soon.


_{[[OOC:Yeah, kinda late, I know. But only because I am, on occasion, less than intelligent in remembering things. Pip's here for Paige if she's willing to SP.]]}

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[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

((only 4am my time! and it's fine))

She walks in, this time in more suitable attire, well more suitable for her canon anyway, thus she's wearing a tight crop-top and black jogging bottoms.

She smiles when she sees Pip, though she's half expecting him to attack her to see she remembers how to fall properly.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip stops pounding on the bag and turns to Paige. He nods. "Hey, how ya doin'?"

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She sighs heavily, "kinda like I wanna hit things hard to be honest with you."

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"In that case, hit things is what we will do today, c'mon over here."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She tilted her head at him and smiles a little, "sounds like a good plan to me!"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Good. Now come here to the bag and make a fist."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She nods and walked over, her hands already in tight fists, "so you want me to show you how hard I can punch right?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"More like I want to make sure you've got the technique right. Hitting power isn't important at all if you break your fingers. Thumb outside the fist. Don't extetnd the arm all the way. There's a bunch of different ways to punch. Jap, uppercut, vertical, roundhouse, blah blah blah. Just hit the bag with a good old fashioned straight punch for me."q

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She nods, "yeah breaking my fingers would probably not be so good," she replies as he goes through the different types of punchs, a confused look appearing on her face.

She takes a deep breath and punches the bag hard putting most of her weight behind it, then catches the bag before it hits her.

"Any good?" she asks shaking her hands to loosen them up.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Yes," Pip said. "But more often than not," he continued, "speed is more important than anything." He demonstred a quick jab. "Like this. Real fast. Can go stright to the stomach, maybe end a fight before it really starts. No matter what anyone else tells you, Paige, a fight you walk away from is one you've won. Unless it's one of those death fight duels. But we'll talk about those kinds of fights later. Now, try a jab."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige suspects every fight she's likely to get into with demons will be ones to the death but she doesn't say this.

Quickly she jabs the bag ten times in quick succession using both of her hands before stepping back a little breathless.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Very good," Pip said. "Now, let's try a straight punch. Watch me closely."

He demonstrated. "Just like that. Don't extend your arm all the way. Not very stable at all when you do that. Much to easy to be broken from the side or just mess up your elbow from the impact. You try once you've caught your breath."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She nods, there'd been more than one demon there when she'd been attacked at Christmas and she thought Cole had said it was more than one that attacked Phoebe.

She watches what he's doing carefully as she takes a few deep breaths, then copies him exactly making sure she doesn't extend her arm too much.

"Can you do these as quickly as the jabs though?" she asks

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Nope. But you get more range out of it. It's all a trade off. There's not single punch or kick that's ideal for every situation. Let's try a vertical. This one is good for going into the solar plexus. Right where your diaphram is. Hit a person there, you'll knock the wind right out of 'em. Watch me."

He bent his elbow up and punched at the midle of the bag, his fist vertical. "You can also punch someone in the nose pretty good with this one."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"So this would be the one I need for the really tall attackers right?" she jokes then does as he's just shown.

"This seems kinda like the worse one, I mean it's slow and you have to be really close to use it," she frowns.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Pip said. "But if you do it right, it's a killer. Check this out. Make a fist and fit it into the space between your ribs."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"Maybe on humans" she points out

Then does it giving him a funny look, "and?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Fits pretty good, right? That's your solar plexus. You hit someone there, you'll hit their diaphragm and knock all the air out of their lungs. Now, against demons, I don't know what kind of good that will do. But against humans, well... that's usually end of the fight there. Hard to do anything with all the air knocked out of your lungs."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She smiles, "well some of them look human, so I guess we can hope they have the same anatomy right?" she says optimistically.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"That's the idea I'm aiming for. Now, let's try those punches out on a live target. Grab some gloves and come over to the mat."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"You want me to hit you?" she asked as she pulled on the gloves.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Try to hit me," Pip said, puling on a pair of gloves of his own. "I intend on blocking and dodging."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She nods, and smiles and looks at him for a moment before deciding on which punch to try. She figures quickly jabbing means in theory she'll get at least one punch in while he's blocking the others so that's what she does. Trys to punch him several times in rapid succession.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip blocks and dodges to the side. "Good, good. But don't count on being able to throw a lot of those so quickly. Most fights, people would be hitting back. Mix it up a bit. That's the most important part. Predictabillity is the number one killer in fights."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige face palms, "I'm kinda hoping most demons are gonna be really stupid to be honest with you," she replies frowning, "but yeah I'll remember that, so shall we try again?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Well, generally you hope your opponent is stupid, but it's pretty dangerous to assume that," Pip said. He raised his hands. "Let's try again."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige tries to think up a good combination of hits that might actually involve a punch landing.

She starts with some jabs, hoping he won't be expecting them since she's just used those, then goes for a vertical punch and a normal one cos the mun is brain dead and forgets the name before finally kicking him, hoping that will take him by suprised. If she managed this is likely to be looking pretty happy about now.

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip blocks most of them but is suprised by the kick and barely dodges in time, almost falling over before he manages to catch himself. "Should've expected that. Very good. Not great form on the kick, but very good on suprise."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige smiles, "still at least I'm learning something right?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

Pip nodded. "Yep. And suprise is very important." He glanced at his watch. "Want to learn about kicks a little or should we call it a day?"

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm call it a day I guess, start with kicking next week?" she suggests, "I've got rid of most of my anger so I should probably wiat til I'm back in the zone."