Showing a goddess of war the ropes

[MappleMan7]

"Good question! K.Os are another way to win a match- it just depends on the situstion. You could knock someone our and pin them while their in snoozeville, or, you could knock them out with a submission hold. With the later, the ref would have to check to see if the victim is fully out before declaring a knockout by lifting the person's arm and letting it fall three times"

Oscar blinked as the woman punched the dummy- but it didn't seem to bother him that much as he continued on.

"And of course, your opponent being DQ'd is the last way you can win a match. That can be brought on by being out of the ring for a slow ten count, low blows, attacking the eyes, using a weapon, or not releasing a submission hold within a five count after your opponent touches the rope- which will actually be what we'll cover next!"

[APlaying]

While there were a few things that Garlim understood in that explanation, such as the submission where the referee had to check the status of his opponent, to see if he could continue in the fight. Or also understand why she was disqualified from the fight because she left the ring, although Ashera's expression didn't indicate that this was exactly her idea, but good for her, otherwise she wouldn't have had the slightest chance to beat Garlim. There were a couple of things she didn't quite understand, though.

"Being . . . What? I mean, disqualified after a five count, while your opponent touches the rope? Weapons? Punches to the nether regions? What the hell are you talking about? What kind of insanity is that?"


After a second, it was now clear to Garlim why they call this "Lucha Libre". Apparently it's a discipline where almost anything goes, and everything.

"So those things I heard about even fucking the referee with blows is it true? Don't tell me you've already tried that?"

The more she thought about it, the more ridiculous all these things sounded to the former MMA champion, she couldn't help but let out a short laugh.

[MappleMan7]

Oscar couldn't help but unload a laugh as the woman's reaction to his explanation of what could get a wrestler disqualified in a match. Truthfully, it wasn't the reaction or question he thought he'd get out of the young lady, and holy hell it was pretty funny. The big fella settled down soon enough, waving his hand at the woman's questions dismissively.

"Ha ha ha! No no no, I've never done any of those! Sorry, sorry... aw man the look on your face was priceless. To answer your questions... yes. Fighters can initiate a rope break to make an opponent back off or free them from the hold. Grab it with your hands, touch with your foot, as long as it's physical contact it'll apply. Hell, one time I bit down on a ring rope to initiate a rope break. I caused a bit of confusion with that one but hey- ref decided it was legal so we rolled with it. And- well, yeah. Hitting the referee is a BIG no no for obvious reasons. The poor guys aren't fighters after all... still, sometimes people will try to mess with them because all those illegal things that can get you disqualified? That'd only happen if the ref catches you doing them. Like- one time I got punched in the nards and my opponent was unpunished because she shoved the ref into me and they didn't catch it"

Oscar shuddered a little. Looks like someone was feeling some phantom pain.

[APlaying]

Garlim could not believe what Oscar was saying, it sounded like a joke but by the natural tone with which it sounded, apparently he was very serious about his anecdote, which was reaffirmed by his body language. Generally if she wants to break free from a restraint she usually reverses things by causing pain to her opponent by any means possible, like biting or kicking him, and even attacking him when he least expects it. Actually things like splitting only happened in case both fighters were entangled behind bars, and the ref had to separate them immediately to avoid worse situations.

"My god, Oscar... You must have looked really weird when they put their fist between your buttocks.... Are you sure it wasn't something else that was shoved up your ass?"

Garlim insinuated with a rather piquant expression on her face, but decided not to bother with that since she didn't want to make the occasion weird. Then, depending on the type of match, she got up to go hold the ropes.

"So, depending on the type of match. A wrestler if she can't get out of her opponent's submission on her own, she usually resorts to grabbing the ropes, right? So, basically if I for example had a free limb and I couldn't free myself from my opponent or something like that, I would have to crawl to the ropes to break her grip? And to avoid getting disqualified I have to avoid doing dirty moves like that..."

Garlim went over the things Oscar explained to her so far and immediately assimilated some measures to counter certain maneuvers easily, her mind in a second was filled with images of her submitting her opponents, preventing them from being able to break some of her maneuvers and countering some escape routes. However this wouldn't do much good if she didn't put it into practice right now.

"I guess I have it, but I think I'll learn better with some practice."

Said the goddess of war with a curious tone, she took the dummy and went to rest her arms on top of the top rope "You will be the referee my immobile friend" She said to the dummy with some mischief.

"Alright Oscar, let's say we have a match with standard rules. So what would the rules of this kind of match be like?"

[MappleMan7]

Oscar blink at the woman again as she made a comment about him. A metaphor about being so serious. It brought out a confused look on his face at first- not used to being referred to in that way. Seeing how the woman didn't seem to press further into it, Oscar chose to also let it go; nodding along to her review of what she'd been taught so far.

"Sounds like you got the gist of it- though if you can't escape a submission hold, there's also the option to tap out or give a verbal 'I give up'. Of course tapping out or giving up will result in a loss for that person but I figured you put that together"

At the mention of putting what she learned into practice with the woman, Oscar's eyes widened with excitement as he enthusiastically nodded his head. Even letting out a chuckle at how the woman set up the dummy as a ref as he got to one of the ring corners to do some warm up stretches.

"Sure! It'd be my pleasure to spar with you. You look pretty strong in your own right- so I look forward to see what you bring to the table. I'm ready whenever you are"

[APlaying]

"Tapping huh? I know what that means..." She immediately started reminding all her opponents that she forced into submission over time, it wasn't the most frequent way she used to end her fights, but it was the most common other than the knockout. The war goddess's grips were so hard that no matter her opponent, it wouldn't take long for them to submit or fall apart in her arms.

"Strong? I see you recognize a fighter's best skills just by looking at him."

Garlim took off her black jersey and threw it over the dummy, which with this already had more resemblance to a referee, however this would leave exposed her knuckles which were bruised and swollen, as she had just returned from a tantrum where she cracked a wall with blows and hit Reina Izara, however she missed several blows that ended up connecting to the floor. They were bruised in some places, maybe Garlim decided to ignore the pain voluntarily.

"Alright, just let me warm up a bit..."

She would immediately throw several punches towards the ground that were going at such a speed, that to the naked eye it was barely noticeable that they had moved. These emitted slight throwing sounds against the wind, after this she proceeded to stretch her arms by clasping her fingers between her hands and brought both arms upwards raising them as high as she could. she stretched even further bringing her arms over her back where she would suddenly release them and her hands would fall on her thighs.

"Eergh! Alright, let's see what a professional wrestler of your proportions can do." She expressed somewhat nonchalantly, perhaps she was just waiting for Oscar to throw himself at her without a second thought.

[MappleMan7]

Oscar eyed the woman as she did her warm-ups, eying her bruised knuckles as well as how fast she could throw those punches. The young man came to the conclusion that she must be primarily a striker and while a lot of Oscar's training went into sharpening his reflexes and avoiding/blocking strikes, the Barbarian Prince had a gut feeling that this wasn’t going to put his training to the test. Seeing that she was ready, Oscar nodded his head and stepped out of the corner. Instead of charging at the woman, though, Oscar slowly circled her and kept his guard up- eying his sparring partner to see what she would do.

[APlaying]

Garlim had not practiced this way for a while, she barely remembered how good it felt to go around the mat this way, she stopped for a second to jump on her heels while she watched Oscar's movements attentively. A big, strapping redhead no doubt, she had in the past met a girl of about the same size as him, though she couldn't quite remember her name. She quickly thought of a good way to knock Oscar off balance without hitting him with punches or kicks of that style.

Garlim immediately charged towards him with good speed, closing the distance between the two of them in barely a second. However, before closing with him, she took a step backwards and with a brief play of her feet turned his body to the right to distance himself from him again, changing direction quickly, in just a blink of an eye she went from being inches away from him to being a little more than a meter away.

Perhaps this maneuver was made to measure the reaction of his opponent, giving him a slight scare. Or so it seemed, since the goddess of war jumped immediately, crouching at the height of Oscar's legs, to give him a good lunge and knock him to the canvas with the impact. Garlim is a strong girl of 1.80, a lunge from her at that speed added to her weight is something that not anyone could contain, but that's something I was about to find out.

Should he manage to knock Oscar down, Garlim would quickly wrap his legs around the red-haired man's legs to flip him face first to the canvas, and thus arch his body with both of the boy's legs under her right armpit, in a painful variation of the Boston Crab, Garlim would hold on tightly with both hands to reinforce the grip as she slowly leaned backwards.

[MappleMan7]

Upon seeking the woman move forward, Oscar attempted to grab onto her when she got close enough- only to whiff the air as she took a quick step back and caught him off balance with a spear takedown! To make the matter worse, the woman managed to swiftly transition into a nasty Boston crab- causing him to groan in pain as she slowly bent him further and further.

"Ahh... urg... not bad... good technique"

Oscar spoke through gritted teeth before placing his hands on the canvas to push is body up and tucking his head inward. The woman might feel Oscar's legs gripping onto her sides before the redhead executed a little trick he learned for countering boston crabs- rolling forward with a somersault and to send the woman onto the canvas! Oscar would show his own technique off as well for if he was successful, he'd shoot upward and use his feet to pin the woman's shoulders to the canvas while grabbing onto her legs and lifting them up- laying them over his shoulders as he went for a pin attempt!

"One..."

[APlaying]

Garlim continued to slowly lean backwards, but at the same time, Oscar was crawling underneath trying to quickly get out from under her legs. The blonde's leaning became sudden once the redhead managed to maneuver forward and caused the imbalance to drive Garlim to lie down on the mat, although she could also roll backwards and propel her legs upwards to break the pin. The goddess of war simply didn't see the need for it, as she simply quickly stretched one of her arms towards the bottom rope to break the pin.

"Hey ref, I'm grabbing the ropes. That means he has to release me right?" The war goddess would say as she looked at the dummy, smiling a mischievous smile, though she felt a bit uncomfortable having Oscar's feet on top of both shoulders. But in the end she thinks she has more or less figured out how a Rope Break basically works.

"And at what point do you have to release me? In 4 or 5 seconds or so?" Garlim would say to Oscar with a somewhat mischievous tone, maybe because he was imagining how ridiculous was the fact, that Oscar had to do all this maneuver, just to pin him inches away from the ropes. She felt like laughing loudly but just gave a small chuckle.