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WHO: Sally Blevins and Dani Moonstar
WHERE: Xavier Institute
WHEN: Tuesday afternoon
WARNINGS: Punching and kicking and fighting!
SUMMARY: Dani teaches Sally how to punch people in the face!
FORMAT: Quicklog

[Sally sways back and forth on the balls of her heels. She's a ball of nervous energy. Not that she doesn't know a little combat but her force field makes it easy to slip away from any situation on the street instead of waiting around to fight. But she wants to learn!]

Are we using weapons or just hand to hand?

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[Dani takes the hit to measure Sally's force. It stings a little but gives Dani an opportunity to pull on Sally's leg and tug her toward a direction.]

Wait, do you mean she holds onto your shield somehow or gets around it quickly?

[Sally pushes at her field, making it extra slippery to give her an edge.]

She manages to hold on. It was really annoying.

[She pushes back up and tries to land another kick. Except she doesn't quite have her balance and manages to topple forward.]

[Dani's slips off the field when she tries to get a grip on it, falling farther away from Sally than she'd like.]

Dom's got talent and luck with that kind of thing.

[Dani stops to brace Sally as she topples a little.]

Okay, I want to keep going but you're missing part of the fight by reacting rather than trying to anticipate some movement.

[She rolls off Dani and manages to get back onto her feet.]

I think most of my problem with fighting is that I react a lot more than anticipate.

Well, you need to push more of advantages too but that's going to take more practice than anything. I really think your shields could really help you with hand-to-hand, blocking against hits and as you plan your own offensive.

[Dani steps from side to side, working to keep muscles loose.]

Want to try another round? I'm not going to make this one easier.

Sam and I worked on me using my shield to project energy. I can focus it into my hands.

[She demonstrates and lets the energy spiral outward. It hits a pile of bricks and Sally quickly extends her shield around the two of them.]

But I've really got to concentrate to make it happen. And another round sounds good.

[Dani watches the bricks fly.]

Impressive. Okay, so we should work on building the stamina too. [She nods.] You should break that out more in team practices.

[Dani turns to face Sally, gearing up a little more. She jumps towards Sally's right.]

[Sally slides to the left and lashes out at Dani.]

I started taking dance. I think that's supposed to help with stamina?

[Dani takes a hit and draws back before going back in, looking to attack low.]

Sure does. Where are you studying?

[Sally moves to the right, aiming a hit to Dani's side.]

Over at [name of place] with Ryan. Muscles I never knew I had ached after my first session.

[Dani catches the movement mere seconds before dodging and sends her elbow around to try and land a blow before the shield comes up.]

Try and push back with the shield. Think you can control the blast?

I used to take dance lessons when I first started studying with Professor X. They could be brutal from what I remember.

[Sally cringes at the impact before her shield pops up and helps push herself back.]

I'm not too sure about the blasts. I'm better at aiming than I was when I first started.

I did gymnastics as a kid but it's been years since I stepped foot on a balance beam.

[Dani thinks she can push Sally a little harder.]

Aim's a good thing to have but I think for your power you should work on the response level. Sam got you to the blasts, the key to using them in a fight is refining them for every level of combat.

[A thought occurs to her.]

Your shield only holds back physical attacks right?

It definitely doesn't work against telepaths if that's what you mean.

Okay. Well I won't be bringing anything psionic now but my powers used to be able to call up objects. I'm gonna bring in a weapon.

Weapons it should be able to handle.

[Sally pushes her shield into place and watches Dani, waiting.]

I've seen you in action, I think it will too. We're just gonna change it up and have you use it the same time as your shield.

[calls up a staff and throws it to Sally]

[Sally catches it but has to focus in order for it not to slip from her grip.]

This could be tricky. There was a time I could barely hold onto any food I was eating, Dani.

It's just a little experiment. [Dani pauses.]

You have decent reactions so that means you have good sense about how your own body moves. To get you to react offensively you have to use things outside your own body, things that are a little harder to control.

I'm willing to try anything.

[Sally swings the weapon, trying to get a feel for it.]

I just want to be able to be an asset to the team, you know?

You already are.

[Dani flows back into a stance.]

We're just adding a few more tricks.

Gotcha.

[Sally aims a hit for Dani's legs while stepping to the left.]

Good. I don't waste time on quitters.

[Dani jumps over the staff but slides across a shield that's in front of her and slips. Ending up dumped on the ground, she rolls to the right to avoid Sally on the left.

There's a slight grunt as Sally catches her across the back and Dani tumbles into a crouch. Dani takes a breath, that was much better.

She charges a fight pattern.]

I'm definitely not a quitter.

[Sally twists to avoid more contact and tries to use the staff to help propel herself. It always looked so easy in any of those Robin Hood movies.

It ends with her sprawled out on the ground and the staff a few feet in front of her.]

Omph.

[Dani's prepared for a number of surprises so she takes a flailing leg or arm in the pattern, watching Sally maneuver with the staff.

Okay, it's not her weapon. Yet. But it's an okay start.]

Yeah, that happens.