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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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That's a good advantage. So, let me check in here and ask, do you have any questions?

Not aside from wanting to know if we can work on this a few days a week?

[She moves the staff and frowns.]

And is this going to disappear?

Yeah, we can definitely do that.

[raises eyebrow at the staff]

It'll go away when I want it to. How was it? Is there a weapon you'd like to work with more?

[Sally considers that for a moment, moving the staff back and forth in her hands.]

I think I'd like to keep up with the staff. It seems like it could be a good weapon to help disable someone.

The important thing about weapons is that they're just tools. Staffs can be good for disabling someone but you could do that just as easily with a knife, gun, arrow, rock, lamp, whatever's handy.

I have to start somewhere though, right? So could it be with a staff and not a gun. I'd really prefer that.

That's true. And everyone has a preference for one thing or another. A staff seems like a good choice for you. Worked with one before?

Nuh uh. Today was my first day.

Good work with it. So I guess we'd better find a real one for you then.

That sounds like a good idea to me. And I'll work on incorporating it into any trainings we have as a team.

Good. Okay, I think we've got a good start here. The last thing I want to show you is just some movements with the staff to get you a little more comfortable. Get these down and you've got yourself a solid foundation for offensive techniques.

[She holds out the staff and nods.]

Whatever you show me I'll work on practicing.

[Staff disappears.]

It's going to be kind of like dance class I guess but the movements are a little different.

[shows a movement routine with positioning and stances]

Follow what you can and then we'll break it down.

[She tries to follow it, getting the basic movements and missing a few stances.]

Okay. I think I've got the gist of it. Break it down now?

That's pretty good. Okay, here it is. [step-by-step routine]

[She follows the routine, needing a few parts shown again before she has it down.]

Thanks, Dani. I'll be sure to work on it every day.

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