May 23 18:22:54 107 PA - Test of boxing skills
From Chronicles
Logfile from Rifts.
The current game time is: Tue May 23 18:22:54 107 PA.
Kingsdale - Harry's Gym
The Sparring Ring of Harry's Gym is even more spartan than the rest of the facility. It is geared towards non and lightly augmented individuals as Harry's is by and large a family facility. Nonetheless, the walls here are chemically treated and renforced and many cameras keep a watchful eye on the goings on. The actual 'ring' is a boxing ring, complete with ropes and nearby is a large open area with mats to practice martial arts and other hand to hand techniques. Of real note is that there are two armed guards here at all times -- and the place seems to ALWAYS be in use -- and a nurse's office is located nearby in the case of injuries. Apparently, Harry takes the safety of the public quite seriously.
Players- Objects- Exits- Erica <O> Out
With the next lesson in their boxing upcoming, Sage is stretching herself out. Once more she's in her standard workout t-shirt and shorts. There is a light sheen to her skin to give the impression that she'd worked out a little too. There is a bag beside her with the boxing equipment ready and waiting.
Erica walks into the sparring room with a warm smile on her face. She is dressed in her own gym clothes, grey shots and t-shirt. She has already warmed up on some of the equipment in the gym proper and is already showing a health sheen herself. "Hey Sage." She says as she moves over to the bag with the equipment in it. "How are you doing this lovely day?"
The current description is now 'Workout'.
At hearing her name, Sage looks over with a smile coming to her lips. "Hey..." She replies softly, before stepping over towards the bag herself. "I'm doing well and yourself?" She asks, as she pulls out two sets of boxing gloves. She tosses one to Erica before setting the other aside. She also takes two of the protective head equipment out as well - dividing them as before.
Erica quickly tugs on the gloves and ties them tight and then puts on the headgear. Her movements seem much more confident then when the lessons started. "I'm doing wonderful. I am glad you are doing well." She says with a smile as she knocks the gloves together. "So what is the lesson today?"
Sage helps Erica with the headgear if needed before putting on her own. She pauses before putting on her gloves as she goes back into the bag to pull out to sealed bags. She smiles a little bit mischievously at Erica. "I thought we could beat on each other a little... with little coaching pauses for good or bad things that I notice, of course." She comments before opening the first bag that has a mouthpiece. "If you're ready, of course... and open up if you are." She adds, as she intends to give the other woman a mouthguard in case a good shot should get through her defenses.
Erica grins at Sage as she takes the mouthguard and opens up the package. "Hey you know after this. I have something pretty cool if you want to check it out." She says before putting in the mouth guard and wiggling it around to make it more comfortable. She hops up and down a bit and then moves her gloved hands up to defend herself. "Weady." She says with the mouthguard.
Knowing the other woman is trained in hand to hand fighting, Sage takes out the other mouthgard and places it into her mouth. Then, she goes about securing her gloves before waving Erica into the actually sparring ring as it would give more easily definable boundaries than fighting freeform in the open area.
Erica giggles as she moves her arms back to her sides as she walks over to the sparring ring. She ducks under the ropes and moves into ring. She bounces up and down to test the surface of the sparring ring as she heads over to the other side of the ring.
A faint smirk comes to the other woman's reaction before Sage follows Erica into the ring in a similar manner. She bounces a little on the balls of her feet as she gets ready for the upcoming lesson. She practices a couple punches to loosen up a little bit more. She begins to bounce a little more on the balls of her feet before she nods to Erica to signal her readiness.
Erica throws a couple punches in the air as she moves up a little closer to Sage. She keeps moving and bobbing like Sage taught her and she holds her gloves to protect her face and her head. She gives Sage a quick grin as she moves in and throws a test jab at the other woman.
A smile takes Sage's lips briefly as she realizes the other woman is practicing the concepts she's taught. She moves similarly but with a bit more practiced movement. For a boxer, Sage's defensive game is much stronger than her offensive abilities. The test jab is deflected easily enough with one hand while she tries to bring her counter punch to the side where the jab had come from.
Erica ducks her head out of the way of the hook just in time and gives Sage a wide grin. "Anyways after this. I met a really cool person you will have to meet." She comments as she keeps close to Sage since she doesn't have much reach. Her fists come out as she throws a left right combo of jabs to Sage's body.
Curling herself to minimize the impact, Sage moves back in time to avoid the second punch in the combo. "See how I protect myself?" She asks, hopping back away from the other woman for the give a moment's pause rather than take advantage of the distraction to get a good punch in. She gives a thoughtful look, "Perhaps." She replies.
Erica nods her head at the question. She gives Sage another smile as she hops up and down in place. "Yah roll with the punches try to lesson their momentum. You would really like this woman. A really amazing person." She mentions as she hops back into arms reach of Sage, and waits for the other woman to throw a punch so she can practice.
"I'm guessing you really like this woman?" Sage asks in response with a bit of a tease in her tone, she hops around a little bit to get back into the rhythm of boxing. She considers her opponent carefully, moving in slightly closer then throwing an uppercut that she tries to initially sell as a punch to the body.
Erica laughs softly and shakes her head. "No it isn't like that. She just says some really amazing things. I think you'll find her to be quite enlightening." She says as she bobs and weaves with her own boxing rhythm. She moves back a little to try to avoid the punch to her body and falls for the ruse and the uppercut hits a blow to her chin. She hops back and shakes her head slightly
When the other woman seems to fall for her ruse, Sage hops back a little bit to give the other woman some time to recover. "The main way to really defend against an uppercut is to make the person miss. It will usually be inside of your defenses. Head movement is key." She comments, before she nods to the comment about the person. She resumes hopping and gets her gloves up in front of her in defense.
Erica stops talking for the moment as she needs to focus on her boxing. She recovers from the hit fairly quickly as she hops forward to meet Sage. She throws a jab to the body followed up by a right hook to Sage's head trying to overwelm Sage with a flurry of attacks.
Once more, Sage seems content to let the body shot land while she tries to keep her hands up. She watches the other woman, enough to catch the cocking of the other right hand. She decides to test the other woman's ability to adapt as she reaches out her left glove to interfere with the right hand the other woman might be stronger, but she'll likely get an extra moment to react to the adjustment.
Erica thanks to Sage's interference her hook goes wide and lands with only a little force. Her lips curl slightly into a frown of concentration as she keeps close to Sage needing the distance to be short thanks to her lack of reach. She throw another jab to the body with her left hand trying to use her strength to wear Sage down.
With the other woman's hook being interfered with, Sage is able to virtually ignore any end result of it. She curls herself once more against the jab to the body, before she tries to hop back. She looks to attack from range, though, as she tries to test the woman's defends to a jab aimed to go between the other woman's gloves and strike towards the chin area.
Erica manages to block that jab as she closes her gloves to close the gap before she get hit in the chin. She hops back but deciding that was a mistake hops back forward and tries her own right jab to Sage's chin and follows it up with a left hook to the other woman's head trying an all out assualt.
When the other woman hops back onto the aggressive, Sage closes up her own defense to prevent the jab but it allows to hook to sneak just past her defenses as she reacts too late. However, instead of letting the woman get any advantage from the hook, she uses the other woman's closeness against her and pulls the other woman into the clinch. "You're doing fairly well... with some more practice, we'll have made you a boxer yet." She comments, holding the other woman for the time being.
Erica giggles as Sage clinchs her in close and she uses the closeness to give Sage a quick, wet lick on the cheek. "Thanks. You are a great teacher Sage." She says with a giggle after the lick. She leans against the other woman as she takes advantage of the clinch to catch her breath.
Sage gives a quiet grunt at the licking, "Might have to make sure my pupil is paying attention to the lesson and situation, though." She replies simply before breaking the clinch to hop backwards as she realizes the other woman is noticing the advantage of the clinch for both combatants. She doesn't give Erica long before she tries a typical 1-2 combo.
Erica giggles as she hops back from the clinch. As the combo heads towards her she manages to bob out of the way of the first punch of the combo, but the second hit takes her in the gut and she lets out a grunt as she takes the hit. She gives Sage a smile as she manages to not let the hit phase her too much and she ducks and steps in to throw her own uppercut.
Edging back back as the other woman moves to come in low, Sage ends up extending her hand to touch the other woman and push her back a little. It gives her just enough time to notice and move just enough to minimize the uppercut. Then, she goes on the offensive as she tries to drive the other woman back to see how Erica deals with the aggression.
Erica frowns in concentration as Sage goes on the offensive. She keeps her arms close to her body as she docks and bobs trying to avoid the blows coming her way while she defends her face with her gloves. She moves back as a jab catches her in the stomach, rolling with the blow.
As she gets the other woman moving back, Sage reaches out her right hand to distract the other woman while trying to occupy the defense the arms provide. She tries to maintain her aggressiveness and brings a left hook in. She'll see if her pupil can avoid or how the other woman reacts to the hit.
Erica maybe new to boxing but she has seen feints before. She glaces at Sage's right hand out of the corner of her eye and bobs her head back incase it is a real hit. But her concentration is on all of what Sage is doing instead of just one attack, and she manages to bring her glove up in time to absorb most of the blow. She throws her own left jab at Sage trying to take advantage of any opening the other woman might have.
With the other woman seeming to have an inkling of what she's up to, Sage can't help but to be pleased with the result. She decides there's but one more thing to test. Although, she isn't an unexpecting foe lost in the fight as might happen. She draws back but lets her distraction hand drop instead of assuming a more sound defense.
Erica watches the other woman's hand drop and while she expects another feint, but can't help but take advantage of the opening. She steps in and uses her left hand to throw a hard hook at Sage. Her other hand is held close to her face to try to protect herself.
Unlike in a real fight, Sage is able to duck her head and let the padded headwear take some of the power out of it. She does bounce back a little before holding up her hands. "Good, let's hold there for now." She comments and gives a chuckle, waiting for the other woman to acknowledge before she completely drops her defenses.
Erica nods her head as she smiles and starts trying to catch her breath. "Thanks a bunch for teaching me Sage." She says as she drops her hands and stops moving so she can catch her breath. "It is a great workout."
Once the other woman seems to agree to the cease fire, Sage lets her posture relax and takes a moment to settle herself. She smiles softly to the other woman, "You're welcome, but we can always work on finer points but it looks like you have the basics." She comments, "Stay close, work the body until they start to drop their hands, look for openings, and don't let a surge panic you..." She summarizes.
Erica grins as she nods her head. "I think maybe we can try this again. Or at least exercise together. It is always nice to have a work out partner." She says as she catches her breath finally. She leans against the ropes of the sparring ring as she relaxes. "So what do you want to do now? Want to come and meet that person I was talking about?" She asks with a little smile.
Sage nods faintly, "I'm sure we can work out something along those lines." She comments as she wanders closer to Erica. "Also, remember that the chin is one place where you can really catch someone in a match... there are other places as well, but there's a reason there's a reason they some people have glass chins." She comments before she begins to remove her boxing gear and mouthguard. "But, let's get cleaned up and see what strikes our fancy after that." She suggests, before she begins to climb out of the ring.
Erica nods her head again as she starts tugging off her boxing gloves as she climbs out of the ring along with Sage. "Yah I'll watch out for that." She says as she tugs off the gloves and then starts working on the headgear. "Well I am down for whatever, but yes a shower and a change of clothes first."
