Salle - Wednesday Afternoon

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Immediately following the karate workshop, Peter made his way to the salle.  

Placing the two practice blades he'd grabbed from the gym to the side, he began to stretch again, reviewing his lesson plan and cursing himself once more for being an idiot yesterday.  Several hours of power based moves after not doing any for a month?  Not the best idea he'd ever had.  He half-expected Setsuna to notice his stiffness and give him the a hard time like he'd given her after she overworked last week.  Not that it was the same thing at all, of course. 

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[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow came in. She was dressed for practice with shorts, a T-shirt with cartoon elephants on it, and a pair of Keds, one red, one white.

In spite of the shorts she still gave a curtsey. "Sir Peter."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter jumped up and bowed. "Good afternoon, Lady. How do you do today?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Quite well, thank you," she said with a smile. "With a noticable upturn in the past minute. You?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Oddly, rather the same," Peter replied, grinning. "I can't imagine why." He gestured to the salle. "Ready to delve into weapons work once more?"

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"I am," Willow said. She held up one of her feet. "I came prepared and everything, see?"

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Peter laughed. "Shoes are always a good start!" He cocked his head at Willow. "If we're going to be doing a form and more movement today, you probably should warm up and stretch first. I can't have the soon-to-be greatest swordswoman hurting herself on the second day."

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"These are special shoes," Willow said, putting her foot back down. "You said we were going to do footwork, so I wore special Up England footie footwear. And okay. Stretching how?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I see, the colours!" Peter said, grinning. "That's brilliant, that is. And perhaps a bit terrifying."

He considered the problem with a bit of embarrassment and rather wished Setsuna was here to show Willow a warm up. "Basically, you just want to wake up your muscles before you start swinging a heavy blade around." He demonstrated a set of arm and back stretches, wincing as he pulled tight muscles. "Those would be a good start."

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Willow looked concerned at the wince. "Are you okay?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned ruefully. "I was an idiot yesterday. I'm well, just sore."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Oh no!" Willow said, though she did start to stretch her arms out. "What happened?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter nodded at the stretching, watching her carefully to make sure she was using the correct movements. "I spent several hours training some skills I haven't worked on since I was at home. Then I was annoyed that I'd backslid so much so I kept going. It was stupid."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"And you offered to carry me to class!" Willow added. She reached over and thwapped him on the arm. "Bad Peter!"

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"That was before!" Peter protested, making a sad face at the thwap. "I trained in the afternoon! Anyway, you're little. I could carry you without a problem anytime."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I suppose," Willow said. She rubbed his arm. "Can I do anything to help?"

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"No more hitting until we start using the swords?" Peter asked plaintively though his eyes were dancing. "Do your arms feel ready?" He asked, deciding to forgo showing her other stretches until he could figure out a way to do it without embarrassment.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"As ready as they'll ever be," Willow said, giving them a final wiggle. She jumped up a down a few times too, in case that would help. "Now what?"

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Peter handed her the same practice blade she used last week. "Do you remember the moves from before?" he asked as he grabbed his own as well

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"Yes!" Willow said, proudly. She got into place and - facing in a way so as to not have to worry about accidentally hitting Peter - demonstrated the diagonal cut, then parry.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

After a while, Sakurazaki drifts in, camcorder in one hand, sachel slung over her shoulder. She grins slightly at the training session in process, waving a bit to Willow and Peter as she sets down her things to retrieve Yuungai from the weapons locker. While working in library earlier, her body had made it clear that today should be a relative day of rest, so she's mostly here for the potential interview. Taking a cross-legged seat on a handwavey bench, Yuunagi balanced between her knees, she sets her sachel in front of her and starts shifting through it for her blade cleaning supplies. She tends to pampering her sword as she waits for Peter and Willow to finish, hoping they don't mind her there for the moment. She's trying to keep her focus on Yuungai, but she's rather intrigued to see Peter's training styles, especially since it's probably Western and she's curious about differences in how she might have done it.

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Peter nodded. "Very nice. Just remember to center your balance." He reached out to poke her in the shoulder to see if she had.

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Peter nodded at Setsuna when she came in and gave her a small smile of welcome before turning his attention back to Willow.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow wobbled a little. "Whoops! Right. Balance."

She tried again.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Sakurazaki nods back, continuing to wait patiently as she polishes the blade.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned. "See, if I were evil like my weaponsmasters, I'd try that every time I saw you so you learned to stay in balance at all times. But that seems like it's taking it a bit too far."

Using the same two strikes, he showed a combination involving movement. Step forward, attack, pivot, parry.