a gym encounter for a warrior and a brawler

[Dragonofdarkness]

Aoi looked at Rosie and nodded. "yeah i know im good but i also know i have alot of improvement. "Aoi admitted scratching her head as she smiled at Rosie. she would nod when Rosie said she was going to get training mitts and would stand there as Rosie left and would stretch again while she waited for Rosie to come back.

A minute later Aoi looked at Rosie and smiled at her as she would raise her hands up ready to throw her fist. She would breath slowly as she threw some punches she tried to breath while she punched knowing she had a problem holding her breath while she punched back to back.

[Dubski]

Rosie kept her eyes on Aoi's form as she was punching the mitts, with Rosie keeping up with the punches just fine. Her mouth twisted slightly in keen analysation. Waiting until Aoi had finished, Rosie heaved a sigh and then dropped the mitts, understanding and trying to come up with one thing, at least this first time.

"You are pretty good at it, but let's start with this. You need to be exhaling with each punch. And if you're doing a combination, you need to be breathing out on all of them too. So in that case, only exhale partially until you're done. You got me? So try to take it slowly and focus on exhaling and not on strength for this next set," explained Rosie, seeming to have quite a bit of knowledge on punching and form. She did her research, and she felt she had to if she wanted to be as tough and good at brawling as she prided herself on being. She would then hold up the mitts again, nodding to give Aoi the go ahead.

[Dragonofdarkness]

Aoi would throw her punches and after that was done. Aoi would look at rosie listening to every word. "oh okay i do have that problem..." Aoi said as she she would nod to Rosie. "ok exhale..." Aoi told her self as she breathed in and would send a strong punch exhaling as she would hit the mitts. she would breath in pulling her hand back.

She would exhale again as she would send an other punch starting a combination. she breathed out with each hitting punch, after a few hits she would put her hand down. "how was that?" she asked smiling at Rosie.

[Dubski]

Rosie kept an eye on Aoi's strikes and watched her breathing, in particular. She was the blue-haired girl's proficience at it when she concentrated and then smirked, nodding. "Hey, you got it. No you need to try doing it faster."

Rosie clapped the mitts together and rolled her shoulders and then explained, "Slowly work your way up and then start punching like you're hitting a punching bag. And time between your combinations to take a breath so you got air. You feel me?" Knuckles held up her mitts once more, preparing for a faster flurry.

[Dragonofdarkness]

Aoi would be able to get her breathing right as she heard Rosie said she had it and would stop breathing slowly as she smiled at rosie." okay so try going faster ill do my best." she smiled as she would get her breathing even and raised her fist up to punch faster.

she would start punching at Rosie's mits breathing with every punch. but after a little while her breathing had missed a punch and she would start to mess up her breathing and would stop. "ha..ha... think i messed up.

[Dubski]

Rosie Knuckles kept up, meeting each of Aoi's fists with her mitts, watching as she would breath with each strike. That is, until she didn't. After missing one, it all went downhill from there. And when the blue-haired sparring partner stopped, Rosie lowered her hands, mouth twisting in indecision.

"Yeah, it takes practice, like most stuff, you know?" said Rosie, trying to be a bit uplifting considering. "After enough practice, it becomes second nature. Like you won't even be thinking of it or whatever. Besides, you got other issues. You leave yourself open a bit when you punch. You need to be able to get ready to be on guard after most strikes unless you're confident you can nail it and knock somebody out."

Knuckles motioned for Aoi to get ready again and held up the training mitts. "So come at me, but make sure that you have enough control to get back on a balanced, defensive way. Like, it's all about control." Rosie wasn't a teacher, and she certainly wasn't eloquent enough to explain it properly, so she had to hope Aoi understood.

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Aoi would breath slowly nd listen to rosie nodding. "yeah your right my friend told me i have to keep practicing till everything goes second nature.. Your right about that i have lowered my guard bad habit..." Aoi admitted nodding to her. " Okay balance and defending got it." Aoi said as she would raise her hands up again and started to punch abit fast but not to fast just enough where she can control her breathing. she would try to spread her weight evenly between her legs. After four punches Aoi would stop and raise her arms up to block if Rosie tried to hit her for about 2 seconds. after the block she would start to go back to punching keeping the routine like she was a boxer.

[Dubski]

Rosie continued to hold up the training mitts to allow Aoi to keep practicing. She continued to watch her until Aoi went to block and she looked at her with doubt before waiting until she rested again so she could speak.

The cotton-candy haired girl lowered the mitts and said, "Okay, no no with this blocking crap. In a fight, you want to prepare to dodge or deflect, especially after you just laid a combination on them. Because they'll be desperate to throw a punch at you and catch you, so you need to be one step ahead. You dodge, deflect, and try to take advantage of it."

Casually speaking more, Rosie added, "It's practice, but you need to practice possible reactions too. You need to be steps ahead. You should have a plan for everything you try. So don't do this impulse block thing, because myself and anyone good will rush your ass down the moment you try that, because then I see you as too defensive for me to not try and take advantage then." Raising her eyebrows and lenaing in slightly, Rosie asked, "Get it?"

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Aoi looked at Rosie confused as she looked displeased by Rosie and listen to her talk. "oh...im sorry i didn't think of it like that... a friend told me to block when im backed into a corner and can't attack back or do much." Aoi said. "he also said to try and avoid as much damage as i can..." she didn't understand why but would nodded

so i have to dodge and deflect okay... I'll try that." aoi smiled at Rosie and would raise her first up and would start to punch again keeping a rhythm she would punch 3 times and deflected then punched again moving to the side or back as if she was dodging punches.

[Dubski]

Rosie looked a bit surprised at the advice Aoi was given and shrugged her shoulders. "Yeah, I dunno. I've always been told I'm more aggressive, sometimes too aggressive, but... You know. It pays off, so it's going to keep happening."

Rosie then prepared for the practice again, throwing a mitted hand towards Aoi when she was dodging and weaving rather unthreateningly, trying to make it so she was actually dodging or deflecting something. She nodded approvingly. "Alright, alright. Not bad there Aoi. You still need to put the practice in, but you seem like you get it," said Rosie after they finished their next set of training.