Astrid Ostberg [D] vs. Susana Kin

[CaptainL]

It went off so simply that Astrid would've suspected her opponent hadn't even seen it coming. She stepped over the Japanese woman's back, planting a foot against her spine, and pulled back on her arms, wrenching on her back as she folded her over backwards. The screams were a testament to the hold's efficacy.

But at the same time, Astrid was disappointed. Her match against Susana had just begun, and after all the potential she had seen in Sue, she wouldn't want it over so soon. She wanted this to last, and she would've expected better from her opponent. Surely she would put up more of a fight than to just give in with one hold, this early into the match!

"Come on, you can do better than that, can't you?" Astrid called to Susana from above, urging her to fight harder.

[xalex]

The Japanese had problems to focus while being in a hold like this. She would press her teeth together as thigh as she could hopping to catch a few clear thoughts. But it wasn´t really working out for her. So she would had to suffer even more while her mind was only slowly coming up with a plan to come out of this. After some time she would start to change her resistance a little bit.

Instead of trying to pull her arms straight back downwards to ease the pain she would try to pull her arms forwards with everything she had. She would try to do this as good as she could to shift the weight of her opponent eve n just a bit. At the same time sue would push her legs into the ground lifting her hips up from the ground higher and higher. She would try to throw them upwards bridging her body hopping to make her opponent lose her balance on top of her and get down…

[CaptainL]

Astrid had hoped that her taunts would encourage Susana to fight on harder. She wanted a good, even fight, and she knew that her opponent was capable of more than this. But even Astrid couldn't help but be surprised at what happened next. It took her some effort as she strained herself to rise to the challenge, but Sue pulled her arms forward, and eventually, Astrid, holding on as she was, was forced to stumble forward along the Japanese woman's back, her balance compromised as she began to bend forward. Then, when Susana raised her hips off the ground, Astrid no longer had a solid foothold to stand on, and a moment later she released Sue from the hold as she toppled over backwards and to the side, rolling a short distance away before she sat back up.

"That's better," she said. "I have to say, you're good at getting out of trouble."

[xalex]

Sue would slowly get back ot her hands and knees breathing heavily. Her shoulders and arms were hurting like hell right now and they had some problems supporting her weight. She would look around before turning around while getting onto one of her feet. She would look right at astrid and reply. “thanks…” while lifting her body back up into a standing position. “But maybe you can stop threatening me like a pushover and take me serious… otherwise you will be very sorry!” She would let her shoulder circle for a moment trying to loosen them up and ease the pain a little bit, only to get ready to tangle with her opponent again.

[CaptainL]

Hearing Sue's response, Astrid nodded, her eyes narrowing as she put a serious, determined look on her face. Susana had well enough by now proved herself a worthy opponent for Astrid, and it was time for her to start treating her like one. "All right," the Norwegian said. "No more playing around. I'm going to face you like the worthy fighter you are."

Watching Susana prepare herself for their next move, Astrid got into a stance, watching her. She wasn't going to make a move just yet, giving this one to her opponent to kick off the next bout. It was time for Astrid to give Susana a chance to show her what she was made of.

[xalex]

Sue would suddenly and without any warning charge right at her opponent. She would speed up as much as possible on the short distance. Locking up with a woman like Astrid would be a bad idea so Sue would try to hit her fast and hard not giving her opponent enough time to react and grab her. The Japanese girl would jump up in the very last moment trying to jump past her opponent while also grabbing one of her shoulders. She would try to get behind her and spin around only to grab both of her opponents shoulders and pull her backwards with all her weight nad momentum.
She would try to make Astrid fall backwards down and make her crashland right onto her knees for a big backstabber.

[CaptainL]

As she watched Susana barrel towards her, Astrid was struck by how fast the girl could move despite her size and build, when she really put herself to the test. The Norwegian braced herself, putting up a defensive stance to avoid any oncoming strikes, but that wasn't what Sue had planned for her. Taking Astrid by surprise, she instead vaulted over her shoulders and grabbed onto them, before latching on tight and falling backwards!

Losing her balance so suddenly, Astrid let out a yelp as she was swept off her feet and went plummeting right onto Sue's knees, which slammed into her back with a jolt, causing her to buck forward. Astrid let out another cry from the impact before she slumped forward, just barely managing to catch herself before she fell on her face by pressing one hand against the mat as she fell and ending up on her knees herself, her back turned to her opponent.

[xalex]

Sue would roll onto her front and look forwards seeing that Astrid took that last hit not so well. The European woman was sitting there defiantly in pain after the last impact. That might buy Susanna enough time to set up the next big move. The Japanese woman would push her hands into the mat jumping up to her feet a fast as she could, before running forwards. She would run right past her kneeing opponent and headed for the ropes in front of Astrid.

Sue would jump into the ropes with as much momentum as she could, before she would be thrown back out, she would speed up even more trying to gain more and more speed while running back to Astrid. iN the last possible moment she would jump up and pull her hips forwards just enough to swing her leg upwards and hit her opponent right against the chest with a big and heavy knee strike.

[CaptainL]

Astrid was still catching her breath, trying to recover her strength while Susana bounced from rope to rope. Slowly, though, she began to raise her head and look up at her opponent, and she raised a brow in confusion. What was Sue trying to do now? She seemed to be gathering momentum as she ran in front of her and pushed off the ropes, as though she was gathering strength with which to put behind her next move. Astrid went tense, her body starting to coil with anticipation as she kept her eyes locked onto Susana.

But just like that, the Japanese girl's plan was put into action, as Susana burst forward with her knee raised and ready to strike. Astrid barely had any time to get out of the way of the oncoming attack before Sue's knee slammed straight into her chest and sent her coughing as she fell back hard, landing flat on her back as she took the brunt of the impact.

[xalex]

Susanna would land hard on her own back after the kick has connected most of the impact had gone over to the chest of her opponent. The blond Asian would slowly sit up looking over to her opponent holding her chest. Sue would use this chance to jump back to her feet and spinning around. She would lookat the ropes before running over to them with a full head of speed, jumping into them and rebounding with a full head of steam. When she was getting close enough to her opponent Sue would jump up into the air and spin forward as fast as she could.

She would try to stretch out her legs when she was coming down brining them onto the chest of her opponent with a summer Sault leg drop. After this hit she would pull herself onto her opponent for a cover pulling her leg up.