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fandomhigh2015-06-10 11:16 am
atreideslioness) wrote in fandomhigh2015-06-10 11:16 am
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Physical Education. Wednesday, Period Three
Ghanima was back today, and if she looked faintly amused, well, you'd gotten Anakin. It was funny.
"I apologize for missing two weeks in a row," she began once everyone had assembled. "I got sent to Caladan--" and hadn't that caused her tau some distress. Ghanima herself had not been a fan. Far too much water. "--for an issue with the Great Houses. Politics always takes twice the time actually needed to resolve a situation."
"I understand that Bubble Soccer was a resounding success, and that you had Master Skywalker last week. I hope you got a good workout." Ghanima, don't laugh at their pain. It's mean. "Today I'd like to talk a little about why physical education and self-defense is important outside the island."
"Violence happens, even when you're not living on an island known for rampaging gremlins and the occasional evil twin or sadistic megalomaniac," she said calmly, motioning for everyone to take a seat on the mats. "Women are, sadly, higher targets for violence given the highly misogynistic cultures of this time period and the prevalence of rape culture. Men are not immune, however. Not from muggings or assault, sexual or otherwise."
"Which is why today, we're learning a bit of Krav Maga. When you are in a real fight, there is no such thing as honor, nor does anyone care about your technique, purity of form, or the spirituality bound up in your particular fighting style. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks. You fight dirty, you fight hard, and you end the situation before it can escalate."
"Krav Maga is a self-defense system developed for the military in Israel that consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from aikido, boxing, judo and wrestling along with realistic fight training. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler as a means of defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga. It has since been refined for civilian, police and military applications. Krav Maga encourages students to avoid confrontation. If this is impossible or unsafe, it promotes finishing a fight as quickly as possible. Attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, and training is not limited to techniques that avoid severe injury; some even permanently injure or cause death to the opponent. Drills provide maximum safety to students by the use of protective equipment and the use of reasonable force. In some teaching organizations like Krav Maga Global (KMG), sparring is slow and light until you reach G2 level, which takes approximately 3 years because climbing from one level to the next in the Practitioner and Graduate levels takes about half a year of consistent training. Once in G2 then you also do simulated “real” fighting with protective gear."
"Today we're going to learn some very basic Krav Maga moves and basic training," Ghanima said, before beginning to demonstrate some moves. "We're going to start with a basic warm-up, and then start out slow. On your feet, then, and let's get moving."
"I apologize for missing two weeks in a row," she began once everyone had assembled. "I got sent to Caladan--" and hadn't that caused her tau some distress. Ghanima herself had not been a fan. Far too much water. "--for an issue with the Great Houses. Politics always takes twice the time actually needed to resolve a situation."
"I understand that Bubble Soccer was a resounding success, and that you had Master Skywalker last week. I hope you got a good workout." Ghanima, don't laugh at their pain. It's mean. "Today I'd like to talk a little about why physical education and self-defense is important outside the island."
"Violence happens, even when you're not living on an island known for rampaging gremlins and the occasional evil twin or sadistic megalomaniac," she said calmly, motioning for everyone to take a seat on the mats. "Women are, sadly, higher targets for violence given the highly misogynistic cultures of this time period and the prevalence of rape culture. Men are not immune, however. Not from muggings or assault, sexual or otherwise."
"Which is why today, we're learning a bit of Krav Maga. When you are in a real fight, there is no such thing as honor, nor does anyone care about your technique, purity of form, or the spirituality bound up in your particular fighting style. Krav Maga is known for its focus on real-world situations and its extremely efficient and brutal counter-attacks. You fight dirty, you fight hard, and you end the situation before it can escalate."
"Krav Maga is a self-defense system developed for the military in Israel that consists of a wide combination of techniques sourced from aikido, boxing, judo and wrestling along with realistic fight training. It was derived from street-fighting skills developed by Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, who made use of his training as a boxer and wrestler as a means of defending the Jewish quarter against fascist groups in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in the mid-to-late 1930s. In the late 1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga. It has since been refined for civilian, police and military applications. Krav Maga encourages students to avoid confrontation. If this is impossible or unsafe, it promotes finishing a fight as quickly as possible. Attacks are aimed at the most vulnerable parts of the body, and training is not limited to techniques that avoid severe injury; some even permanently injure or cause death to the opponent. Drills provide maximum safety to students by the use of protective equipment and the use of reasonable force. In some teaching organizations like Krav Maga Global (KMG), sparring is slow and light until you reach G2 level, which takes approximately 3 years because climbing from one level to the next in the Practitioner and Graduate levels takes about half a year of consistent training. Once in G2 then you also do simulated “real” fighting with protective gear."
"Today we're going to learn some very basic Krav Maga moves and basic training," Ghanima said, before beginning to demonstrate some moves. "We're going to start with a basic warm-up, and then start out slow. On your feet, then, and let's get moving."
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It wouldn't be fair to describe her expression as 'slack-jawed', precisely, but she was definitely staring. Part of that was how much concentration it took to even follow Ghanima's movements, but part of it was definitely a sort of shock. She'd never seen anyone move with that kind of speed without the assistance of AirTrek. Despite some of the weirder things she'd seen since arriving at Fandom, it hadn't even occurred to her as possible.
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It didn't take her too much longer to finish her workout, and begin a cooldown kata. "I know it's unsportsmanlike to clothesline a poor hologram, but it's surprisingly satisfactory," she confessed. "Did you have a question for me, Ringo?"
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"How do you move like that?" she asked, eyes still a bit wide with wonder.
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"Once you have optimized your muscle control, a practitioner of the art has to know that the action he or she "wants" to perform has already been performed. Time is one. Space is one." Ghanima went and stood in front of one of her 'fallen' foes. "For example, to imagine oneself behind an opponent at the current moment in time--" she blurred, and reappeared behind him. "When trained well, this knowledge will place you at the spot desired."
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"Do you," she hesitated, eyes darting to the side as she took a deep breath and screwed up her courage, "do you think I could learn it?"
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