The Gym - Monday Morning

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Peter made his way to the gym when he woke up Monday morning.  He headed straight for the heavy bag.  It had been far too long since he'd worked on hand-to-hand.  Plus he needed to screw up his courage for further apologies.  


[OOC: Open, of course]

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[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, Mr. Pevinse," Pip said as he entered the gym. "I see you have, in quite a dastardly way, taken the exact thing I was hoping to use."

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"A good morning to you, M. Bernadette," Peter replied. "May I tender my apologies for my dastardly behavior?"

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

"Yes. And because I am feeling particularly benevolent today, I'll even accept your apologies. As long as there's no singing on the bleachers."

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Peter grinned and made a particularly flourishy bow. "I'm honoured to say the least, good sir. As for singing on the bleachers, never again if I can help it."

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"Good man. You've been practicing those kicks I showed you?"

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"You didn't get caught up in the madness of Saturday, I take it?" Peter asked. Instead of answering the question, he stepped back from the bag and threw a pretty effective roundhouse then sidekick.

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"Nope. No signing, and no grease in the hair. Which, considering my hair, is probably a good thing."

"Wanna learn some more?"

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"I don't know," Peter replied. "Anakin almost pulled it off. Though given that some people actually dyed theirs, you might have cut off the pigtail while convinced you were a greaser."

"And I'd love to."

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Pip grinned. "Not happening. Now, watch me close. This is the hook kick. Not much on it's own. Takes too long. But if you can get it down right, I'll show you how to do something really cool with it eventually."

He demonstrated.

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Peter watched carefully and after taking a moment to work through it in his head, he tried the kick slowly, focusing on getting the movements close to right.

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"The thing about this kick," PIp said, "is that you've got to snap the leg back quickly. That's what gives it it's force."

He demonstrated again.

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"So you're striking with the snap more than the original push out?" Peter asked. "It's not like a sidekick then?"

He tried, working to snap the heel back for the strike.

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Pip nodded. "The idea is that once we've refined this, we'll add the spin, so that the force of the spin is added to the hook and you really do some damage."

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Peter grinned. "Show me?"

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Pip motioned for Peter to back up and delivered a spinning back hook kick to the heavy bag.

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"Ooh, brilliant," Peter said. He tried it because - how could one not? He had the balance on the spin and kick right, but the kick definitely needed more work. He grinned ruefully. "Very well, I'll just work on the kick for now."

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Pip nodded. "That's how it works, I'm afraid. You've got to put the practice in before you can do anything cool and flashy."

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"I'm well-aware of that," Peter replied. "But if I didn't try it first, I'd've been wondering how it felt the entire time."

He threw out a few more practice hook kicks, concentrating on the snap of the movement..

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Pip laughed. "Can't say I blame you. I tried knife throwing before I was ready with hilarious results."

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"Did you bounce it off the target or a person?" Peter said. "I did the same thing when I was learning to shoot a bow. Thought I didn't need a silly arm guard. My sister almost stopped laughing long enough to feel badly for me. Almost."

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"Both," Pip responded. "Your sister? Didn't know you had much family.... wait a minute..." he stopped to think about this. "Older or younger sister?"

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"Sounds like you were the person to stay away from while learning," Peter replied with a grin. "I have two sisters and a brother. All born after me."

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"Huh. So you aren't related to Dr. Susan?"

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"She's my little sister," Peter said with a nod. "The one who couldn't stop laughing at me. She's - obviously - from later in her life."

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Pip rolled his eye. "Of course. Why did I expect anything in Fandom to be normal?"