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Originally Posted by kittycatburmise
Mallowpaw
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Battle training. Something Mallowpaw hadn't worked much on; she only knew two moves from the event that the Hornets had hosted moons ago. Wolfhive would be teaching her advanced moves as well as the basics; good. At her age she should be learning more than the fundamentals.
Mallowpaw hadn't thought Wolfhive would cover dodging; it was one of those moves you instinctively knew without being taught. But still she watched as her mentor demonstrated, springing to one side before twisting and slicing his paw through the air.
It was her go now, and Mallowpaw imagined an enemy lunging at her. As imaginary claws came towards her, she side-stepped and spun, slashing a sheathed paw across the invisible warrior's flank. |
"Good!" Wolfhive purred as Mallowpaw demonstrated the move.
"It's a simple move, but can be very effective." A good go-to in a pinch especially.
"There's a couple other techniques you can do when your opponent is no longer directly facing you; grabbing their tail and yanking it can knock them off balance or even break the tail if you pull it hard enough, you can put your paw or tail out to trip them up.. Hell, even just slashing at their legs can make moving painful for them." None of this was worth demonstrating, though; just things he wanted Mallowpaw to consider in the future.
"If you're looking to immobilize your opponent.. you can go for breaking their leg. It won't kill them, but it'll put them out of commission for a couple moons." Wolfhive mimicked grabbing a leg and twisting it 'against the grain'. When he was an apprentice, he had a live model - but he got the impression Mallowpaw wouldn't appreciate fighting some random trespasser. So, the point was to give her an idea, even if she never used it - she could if need be.
"Go against the momentum and it'll snap, you'll have to put some force into it to do more than a dislocation though. A dislocation would hurt, but might not actually stop them.."
Now onto something a bit more tangible for her.
"Some other techniques.." Wolfhive went on to demonstrate things like the front paw blow n rake, playing dead, and scruff shake... but he wanted to move to more of a spar format.
He'd give Mallowpaw a chance to try it all out first, though.
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kittycatburmise i hope this makes sense LOL i lost my train of thought / didn't think it was worth describing the book stuff ]