What NOT To Do In A Fight / Wednesday, Period III / Week 14

[atreideslioness]

Very, very rarely did Ghanima wish she had the innate, powerful, prescient talents of her brother or father. She had seen growing up what that sort of wishing had done to Alia, and that was not a path she wished to take. Her own, modest abilities were more than she wished or needed, most days. She was Sayyadina, and that was more important to her than all the visions the Golden Path could offer.

Today, however, she had the beginnings of a prescient migraine, some of her Tau voices were screeching at her, and her Dune Tarot had been infuriatingly chaotic and unreadable. She would not risk the Spice trance again, not yet, but it was more than enough to make her change her lesson plans.

"You've seen a lot of things that are terrible ideas over the last few weeks," she said, once everyone had gathered. "But today we are going to learn how to do things properly. We're going to learn some basic self-defense moves."

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With the furies breathing down your neck

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Ahsoka Tano

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Jalian d'Arsennette

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Gratuity Tucci

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Ringo Noyamano

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Merrill

During the Lecture

[atreideslioness]

It's short, and to the point.

Activity!

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"Today, we're learning how to throw a punch properly, so you don't break your hand," Ghanima said tranquilly, ignoring the pounding in her skull. "As well as ways to kick, places to stomp, and locations to jab which will hopefully render an attacker in enough pain to release their hold on you, and give you a chance to get away or put them down. Be sure you know which of those two options you are capable of doing, because if you're going to put them down, you should be striking to kill."

Cheerful, Ghani. Fremen habits of 'leave no witnesses, no knives at your back' were probably a bit extreme for most of them.

She handwavily walked through the basics with them, showing how to punch, slap, stomp an instep, throw an elbow, and where on the neck and ribs it would be extremely painful to be jabbed with fingers.

"Go ahead and practice," she said, gesturing to the dummies around the room. "Or, if you're used to sparring, find a partner and start working."

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[kenselvren.livejournal.com]

Jalian was a little bored with the lecture, since at this basic a level there wasn't much difference between these strikes and the ones she knew.

At the mention of sparring, though, she perked up, and looked around for someone.

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Ringo had taken enough of Ghanima's other classes to have most of the basics down, so she was also pretty quickly turning to look for a sparring partner. She spotted Jalian and tossed of a little grin and a wave before heading over.

"You want to, um, practice together?"

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[cracksmostly]

. . . yeah, despite the demonstration, Merrill was not doing well at the whole 'throwing a punch in a non-hand-breaky way' thing. She'd much rather leave the hitting part to other people, so after a few minutes of that she opted for trying to poke at one of the dummies' neck and ribs.

Of course, the ability to gauge how successful those pokes were was made somewhat more challenging by the fact that the dummies didn't really have pain reactions to go by.

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She's around, before and after class.

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Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline!

BLAME LEN FOR THE EARWORM.