Training time.

[Taizo]

(Note: this thread is for general training purposes and not an specific technique.)

“the next stance is called Zengosayuu no Shisei its the fifth of the six stances and allows you to respond rapidly to a enemy from all eight angles of attack. For this stance you want to bring your sword upright until the hilt is in front of the right shoulder. This stance is used to transition into Kousou no Shisei that was the third stance that you learned if you remember this is done when striking by sloping the blade slightly to the rear. Grip wise you want your dominate hand at the apex. As for your feet position your dominate foot at the rear with your left foot as the lead.”Explained Ben

Taizo began to move his feet into position his left foot was in front with his right behind by a shoulder length, this gave him a good base to attack from. His right hand was at the bokken's apex gripping it hard so that it would move as a extension of his own body, cutting anything in his path. He suddenly raised the bokken so the hilt was in front of his right shoulder. This would mean he could respond to any attack that came his way and fast.

“That looks great Taizo nice form you look as if you could attack quickly from this position, this is a great position to launch fast attacks from. Lets go and grab another drink before we continue with the training, just come though here” Ben lead Taizo in to the reception area it was make up of a small counter, behind it was various items and weapons on the right was a small fridge full of sports drinks “What kind of drink would you like Taizo water or lucozade” said Ben as he pointed to the fridge. “hrmmm I think just a plain bottle of water if it isn't to much trouble” Ben handed Taizo the bottle of water and they both began to drink it and talk about Taizo's techniques and what to learn next.

[Taizo]

“Right, Taizo time to teach you another of the basic punches, this one is called the hook, it’s normally thrown with the lead hand although it can be thrown from the rear as well for a more powerful shoot. Seeing as you can use both the south paw and orthodox stance we are going to use this technique from the south paw, ok? Now get into your stance and I will run through the motions with you.”

Taizo adjusted himself so that he had his right foot forward acting as his lead foot; his left foot was behind it pointing of in a ninety degree angle. he was up on the ball of his rear foot so that he could move around easily, if any punch was thrown he move his head and body out of the way faster like this. His chin was tucked in at shoulder level his eyes watching the opponents chest, so that he could see a attack coming. His hands were raised high with his gloves either side of his jaw the right one was slightly in front of his left. His elbows were close to his ribs to protect himself from any body shots that maybe thrown at him.

“that looks great Taizo, now from here you want to rotate your hips and whip your arm around so that its almost parallel to the ground, it wants to hit the opponents ribs or chin.” Taizo was ready for this it was only a basic punch but he new that it would be a bread and butter punch fights could be won or lost by his knowledge of this attack. Taizo rotated back on his right side this small change would give the appearance that his range was shorter than what it really was and thus draw the opponent close to where the hook would have more power.

When Taizo was in a suitable position he released his shoulder and hip pushing them back in the direct they had came from, they twist around using his left hip as an axis to generate torque. His arm cut though the air like a hot knife through butter, rotating as it when so that his palm would be facing down at the ground. The glove finally reacted full extension, if somebody had been there the punch would have been fired though there jaw, the reason for this was if you punch past a target you gain more force.

[Taizo]

Taizo then pulled the punch back through the same path that it had came though, to his jaw. With his hand back at his jaw his right side would be protected again from any threat, whether it be at his head or body. As soon as his arm came back Taizo took a step to the right, shifting his feet in the correct manor. The reason for this was so he wasn’t a static target for the enemy as it is much harder to hit a moving person than one that is standing still.

“Now it is time for the last of the basic punches, you may have guessed what it is called, it’s the uppercut. This punch is similar in a way to the hook but rather than traveling horizontally the uppercut moves vertically. You need to have a ninety degree bend in your arm, then you drop the shoulder and push up the glove should only travel around ten or twelve inches anything other than that and it won’t have the correct power”

Taizo adjusted himself this time he was going to use his othradox stance, which meant that he would have to change the position of his feet. Taizo made a small jump and twisted his body when he landed his left foot was forward with his right foot behind. Then he positioned his rear foot so that it was pointing out at a ninety degree angle and made sure he was on the ball of his foot. Taizo made a quick glance over his stance to check he was in the correct position; he worked his way through a mental check list. His feet were should length apart and facing the correct way everything looked good so far.

Now Taizo had to get his hands into the correct position. He tucked in his chin so that it was at shoulder height his eyes looking to where the opponent’s chest would be. He raised his gloves, his left glove when to the side of his jaw, his elbow in tight to protect his ribs. But his right hand kept moving up; to brush his hair back out of his eyes, strands of the messy white hair had fallen down. After he had moved his hair out of the way he was ready to go, moving his right hand next to his jaw line. He then when though his mental check list again; his hands were in the correct place for this stance, his elbows where covering his ribs, his chin was at the right high everything was good to go.

[Taizo]

Taizo then dropped his right shoulder about an inch or two, this was so he could launch himself and his punch forward this would compensate for the lack of the twist in this technique. Moments later he exploded of his right foot pushing up as hard as he could, the momentum that this would generate would add to the impact made by the uppercut. His arm was at a ninety degree and moved up almost vertically for about eleven inches, at this point it would have struck the opponents chin and properly knocked them clean out.

But the punch kept on moving until it had moved fourteen inches in total this was all to do with the punch though the target idea. When the glove reached this point Taizo quickly whipped it back to cover his undefended side from any form of punch that may come his way. At the same time he took a step back so that he was a static target, like a punch bag. From this position he was ready to throw more punches if he needed to. “That was great Taizo perfect technique, wonderful punch you ticked all the boxes”

Right the Taizo this time we are going to learn the straight it is sometimes known as the cross. This punch is thrown with your domain hand but seeing as your ambidextrous you just throw it with your rear hand ok? So if you’re in an orthodox stance use your right hand, if you’re in south paw use your left hand ok? Now you can use this technique from either the upright stance or the semi-crouch so get into a stance and get ready to punch.

Taizo adjust his feet so that he had his left foot forward as his lead, and his right foot as his rear. This gave him a good balance and a way to move about easily. He was raised on his back foot so that he could move out of the way of any attack that the enemy could use on him. He raised his hands up so that his jaw was protected; his elbows were close to his ribs. His chin was tucked in at shoulder level. This ways to protect himself if he was ever hit, as the attack would have to get past the defense make by his arms arms.

[Taizo]

“Now I want you to twist your body and throw your right hand” Taizo pulled his right should back a few inches to gather the increase in torque that would give the punch its knock out capabilities. He then unleashed the punch twisting his body using his left hip as an axel to generate more power. His right arm shot though the air as it move it to twisted, so that the palm would end up facing the floor the reason for this was to add power and open up any cuts the opponent may have.

When Taizo’s arm reached full extension it was pointing down slightly to make sure that the first two knuckles made contact. He then pulled the arm back quickly, into his guard and took a step to the left as it is always important to move after a punch to avoid a counter attack. The reason for him pulling his arm back quickly was so he could protect himself from any attack the opponent may throw.

“That was great Taizo we are making real progress”

“Now it’s time for you to fight me Taizo come at me whenever you want” explained Ben. He didn’t have to tell Taizo twice he almost instantly launched a right hook straight for Ben who seemed to be totally relaxed. And not expecting any attack at all from Taizo or at least not so soon. The punch cut though the air gathering speed it would defiantly break Ben’s ribs if it made contact.

Ben had a senbon in his hand he had been rotating in between his fingers. When the punch came close to him he simply moved the senbon in the way holding it between his thumb and finger. It stopped the attack dead in its tracks. Taizo looked at him amazed that such a thing could possibly happen, strands of chakra jumped from the senbon.

[Taizo]

This had been from the amount of power Taizo had put into the attack. “Y-You blocked my punch… with a senbon?!” Said Taizo, his face clearly displayed his emotion of what the hell. As Taizo stood lost for words he totally forgot to pull his hand back to guard himself. Ben dropped a few inches and moved in close to use an attack of his own. “Tetsu Tekken” he shouted hitting Taizo with a bone shattering blow, the force of the attack blasted him against the dojo wall.

This caused a small cloud of dust that engulfed Taizo, when the cloud cleared he was on his knees. He had a blood thirst look across his face ready to beat the crap out of Ben. He started to get up and walk back to the middle of the room. He moved himself into his boxing stance “You’re pretty good, I never imagined that you could use some crazy shit like that, but don’t be fooled… you haven’t won yet… because I’m Taizo Kyoudo” announced Taizo


As he took of his training top throwing it on the floor, revealing his lean, body not an ounce of fat was on him just muscle. “Well it seems that you have some spirit in you Taizo but I will give you a handicap if you can land even one blow on me then you win.” As he announced this Taizo took of his gloves throwing them on the floor leaving only his hand wraps around his hands. “Let’s cut the crap I will kill you in one blow” said Taizo as he rushed in with his southpaw fighting stance throwing a straight left punch towards bens face.

He was met with a roundhouse kick to the side of the face, busting his nose but the attacks didn’t stop there more and more kicks were thrown. Forcing Taizo to block them with his arms as he looked for an opening. After knocking him bad about five steps blood was flying everywhere Ben decided to finish it so fire a powerful kick.

[Taizo]

Spinning Taizo around and would have been to the floor but he starched out his leg landing on his knee. He spat the blood out of his mouth on to the ground. But Taizo wasn’t ready to give up so easier he got back up blood was now covering his neck and chin. He got back into his fighting stance. Ben smiled he would knock out his cocky student with the next attack he ran and jumped into the air flying forward to kick Taizo’s head off of his shoulders.

But Taizo was learning his senses were heightened he lent back as if doing the limbo, letting Ben’s kick pass him by completely. “I’ve got you now” shouted Taizo as he got back into his stance throwing a powerful punch towards Ben. But Taizo was nave Ben simple grabbed his hand and rotated his body in the air, he span around again, this time he had Taizo’s hand so they was no way of escape. The kick knocked Taizo down he was falling back to land on the ground when he though in his mind I can do this I just need to step up my game I almost dodged that last attack.

He stretched out his hands and turned the fall into a reverse hand stand. Flipping him to his feet, the real fight would start now. Taizo ran forward and threw another punch this time a jab to Ben’s face. Ben merely ducked down and threw an attack of his own a low round house kick to knock Taizo over. But this time it was different it was strange this time almost as if Taizo could read Bens movements again it was like he knew that it was going to happen.

Taizo jumped into the air wondering what was happening maybe Ben had made the move look deliberate to draw him in to the air. Yes that was properly the reason, why he had done it. Ben didn’t look to be letting up even though his first technique had been dodged. He put his hands on the floor and pushed his body up to kick Taizo in mid-air.

[Taizo]

Taizo had learned the trick form before about aerially movement and decide to give it ago after all it was clear that Ben was going to do this form of attack. As bens feet travelled up Taizo gapped them using them as a movement point he spun himself around. And kicked away one of Ben’s hands, making him fall to the floor. It appeared that Taizo was learning to foresee the moves that were coming at him by small changes in the opponent’s body movement.

“I can see though you moves now Ben they are clear to me”. Ben didn’t seem to happy about this so rushed forward to strike Taizo with a powerful straight right. When he was close Taizo simply ducked and moved his head to the left of his attack and threw his own attack a powerful uppercut to bens rips. The impact of the attack lifted Ben off the floor, and knocked the wind out of him.

When Ben regained his composer he started to talk “Well done Taizo it would seem that you have mastered the art of heightened senses this will help you to see though low level attack, such as the ones I’ve been using on you, anything ranked D you should be able to see coming from now on as long as you are in the zone”

“Now to test you’re body’s skills this will test you’re muscle memory I think that we have trained long enough to be able to avoid low rank attacks but let’s see.” Ben handed Taizo a blind fold, he tied the blind fold around his eyes it completely blocked out his vision. He would only have his hearing to rely on and something told him that it wouldn’t help him that much.

[Taizo]

“Now I am going to attack you at a low speed just like a low rank ninja.” Ben started to encircle him so that his hearing was useless in deterring were the attack would come from. All of a sudden Ben launched a kick flying through the air to hit Taizo square in the back. Taizo didn’t have a clue that the attack was coming and the kick made a clean contact with him knocking him forward. Taizo used his stance to reduce his movement though, he was ready for the next technique he was going to dodge it.

The next attack came about thirty seconds later in the form of a strong straight right at his face. This time Taizo managed to avoid the majority of the attack moving his head to the left the punch still hit him but not on his nose like it was meant to instead it hit him on his ear and then passed though his white hair. Taizo got a bit excited he had almost dodged that attack; he was in the right frame of mind for this. He re adjusted his stance and started to move around a bit taking steps to the left and right to make it harder for Ben to attack him.

Out of nowhere came a flying round house kick, it was executed perfectly coming though the air to chop of Taizo’s head. But this wouldn’t happen if Taizo’s body had anything to do with it at least to sensed the attack and screamed out to him to move, Taizo dropped down to one knee allowing the attack to pass over him, not only this but Taizo fired his own attack a uppercut up at Ben striking him in mid-air knocking him back a few feet.

Taizo seemed to have mastered the technique at this level at least; he dodged all of the remaining attacks launched from Ben with easy it was true each time a attack came at him his body screamed at him to move, it must have been a result of all of his hours training at boxing. Taizo sat down on the floor and removed the blind fold sweat was dripping from his hair he was worn out

[Taizo]

“The next technique you are going to learn is called Perfect stance as the name implies this is all about your stance if you master this it will reduce the distance that you are knocked back, this will play a key role in real life battles where you don’t want to be knocked back. The reason for this should be pretty obvious if you are knocked back it will give the opponent the chance to use more attacks in a combination against you. Now get into your stance and we will see what we can do”

Taizo decided to go with a south paw stance, he positioned his right foot forward as his lead, his left foot was out to the side acting as his rear foot. If this was to drawn on a clock the hands would be at twelve and nine. Taizo raised his right foot of the floor so that he wouldn’t be flat footed his weight rested on the ball of his foot. He was prepared to move of defend any attack Ben could throw at him.

“Hmm… that looks pretty good Taizo your feet are in a good position, but you will need to move your arms in too position” Taizo lifted up his gloves, to protect his face and body. His chin was tucked in a shoulder level, his eyes focused on the chest area of the opponent. His gloves rested close to his jaw with the elbows in tight next to the ribs.

“Yep that’s the way to do it now when you get hit you are going to need to drop your center of gravity, this will stop you from moving as much. When you do this push your legs forward this will also help stop you moving” Taizo prepared himself for the attack to come he was in the zone ready to try this technique out. Suddenly Ben dropped down and struck Taizo hard in the ribs, the force would move him backwards but how far? When the attack was just about to make contact Taizo dropped his center of gravity, and pushed forward into the attack.

[Taizo]

The impact of the attack pushed him back but it was reduced by quite a large amount, Taizo’s feet were pushed back but the strange in his leg muscles was clear the two forces would work against each other and reduce the amount of force left to send Taizo flying. The push back stopped with Taizo about twenty meters from Ben it was quite a long way, but the last time he had been hit with this technique he ended up about twenty five meters away. So it looked like the technique had worked successfully, he lowered his arms looking pleased with himself although Taizo knew that the distance that the distance could be improved upon.

“Ever heard of the Kaguya bloodline Taizo? Well they have the ability to harden their bones. Well they is a form of training that can harden your bones similar to what they do, this idea comes from something known as Wolff's law the basic idea is that bones are like muscle if you put a constant force on them they will adapt like people that you see with weights around their legs, their body has adapted to it. So if you keep on training you will get what is known as cortical remodeling but this will take a lot of time to perfect but lucky I have came up with a great training method that speeds up the bone hardening period. So far you have been training punching bags and such like, this will have started the process but now we are speed it up dramatically by me almost breaking all of your bones, it sounds crazy but they will heal stronger trust me when have I even been wrong”

Taizo moved into his fighting stance he wasn’t just going to get hit and not try to defend himself; he positioned himself in the orthodox fighting stance this time. Meaning that his left foot would be his lead, and his right, his rear. He raised his gloves to protect himself like he normally did in this stance. But Ben was quicker he picked up one of the wooden training sword from the floor and quickly struck at Taizo’s arms. The impact of the attack caused Taizo’s arm to go dead this wasn’t good, his arms were his primary defense if they got taken away he would be open to attacks.

Taizo’s arm started to drop a bit he was sure that Ben would take advantage and strike him in the unprotected area. But it seemed he was wrong, the sword cut though the arm and crashed into Taizo’s leg thigh, this attack didn’t make his leg go numb. Instead it started to burn, his leg was stinging from the attack. This was properly to limit Taizo’s movement so he couldn’t escape the attacks to come. Taizo tried to take a step to the left but the pain was unbearable so he had to remain in his current position.

[Taizo]

Ben spun around anti-clock-wise this was bad, really bad; Taizo knew that the only reason Ben would spin was to add more power to an attack. Taizo tried to move back lifting his arms to dodge another strike to his already numb arm. But this was the wrong thing to do it had left his ribs completely unguarded, he may as well have asked Ben to strike him in them. The sword hit his rib cage at a incredible speed knocking Taizo to the side, he was sure that his ribs would be broken by such a powerful attack.

Taizo recovered from the blast and started to limp around trying to at least not be a static target he felt his ribs with his left hand and realized two things his ribs had not been broken and his arm was no longer numb. Taizo decided to show this by throwing a hook at Ben’s jaw. As the punch cut through the air, Ben ducked at hit the other side of the rib cage. The pain from this made Taizo miss with the hook, as he staggered away. “That’s all for today, I think this will have increased your bone decide but it will leave some nasty burses for the next couple of days, but that is the price of greatness, you have to pay for it with blood and sweat, if you suffer now you can live the rest of your life as a champion”

“Now here is a technique to dodge attacks from a opponent, it’s called the slip outside, now you use this by bobbing your head in the direction so that it goes to the outside of the opponents body. To put it a different way when somebody throws a jab and thing to the left of the jab is a slip inside and anything to the right of the jab is a slip outside. If you are in the south paw stance it would be reversed so remember that if you move towards your lead foot that’s inside and to your rear foot is outside”

Taizo got himself in to an othradox stance, as it seemed to be the easiest to learn this technique in. He pointed his left foot forward and his right foot out to the side as his rear, together the angle formed was about ninety degrees. He raised his hands to the correct posinont so that his chin was guarded as well as his ribs. “Right Taizo that looks good, now for this I want you to transfer your weigh to your rear foot. Imagine they is a rope between your knees when you turn to the side your knees must remain the same distance apart”

[Taizo]

Taizo perpetrated to have a go, he checked that his stance was still correct and then moved his body weight onto his back foot. This as he did this he leaned over on his waist to the right side, his head moved about a heads distance to the side he was quite impressed by the technique. Taizo looked happy with the technique but Ben didn’t “no that was wrong, you don’t move jus your hips you let your legs do the work as if you were pulling back a hook, bend your right leg and you should get it right ”

Taizo was a little disheartened but he couldn’t learn everything on his first attempt. He moved back to his regular stance and did a small mental check that everything was as it should be. Ben then through a slow jab at Taizo’s head if it hit it wouldn’t hut it was move for ensuring he moved over enough to dodge the attack, to add a sense of realism to the technique. Taizo saw the attack coming with ease after all it was very slow. He began to shit his weight to his rear foot, to do this he kept his arms in the same position to make sure he wasn’t undefended. Then he bent his rear leg at the knee which moved his body to the side, his knees remained the same distance apart for the duration of the technique.

The dodge didn’t move Taizo a great deal only enough to let the jab skim past his hair, but that was all that was needed for the technique from here Taizo threw a few light punch to bens exposed rib cage to see how effective the technique could be, overall he was highly impressed. The technique had worked what more could he want.

“Right Taizo I assume you are aware of the technique called Shunshin, well I’m going to teach you a technique similar to it, as you know if you use Shunshin you can only go in one direction, well this technique allows you to move in multiple direction. So for example you could move forward five meters then left three meters then back two meters and it would only do the same amount of strain on your body that one Shunshin would. So in essence it is a way of conserving energy. ”

[Taizo]

Taizo took of his gloves it was clear that this task involved no fighting at all so they would just be a hindrance to him. The unfastened the blue gloves and then tossed them on to the matt flooring. Then he would need to get into his boxing stance, he was going to for this in a south paw style so he; placed his right leg forward as his lead, and his left leg out to the side as his rear.

The boxing stance was good for moveably, the reason for this is that the user is light on they feet and not flat footed meaning they can move at a high speed. Taizo had been careful when arranging his feet he made sure that he was up on the ball of his rear foot and not flat footed. As this technique was to do this Shunshin it was clear that it would be a high speed technique so he didn’t want to be in a slow and sloppy stance for it.

“That looks good Taizo, I want you to move around like you normally would in your boxing stance” Taizo understood what Ben was meaning. He wanted him to get used to moving like this because, when he was going to use Shunshin he would have to move in this manner.Taizo took a step to the left, to do this he first move his left foot of the ground and then dragged his right after in. This was so that his body weight remained balanced and not on one leg.

It was important to distribution your weight correct as if you didn’t you speed would be reduced and you could be left open to attacks from your enemy. Taizo preformed a similar kind of thing taking steps forward, back, left and right. When Taizo felt confident enough he looked over at Ben for his approval. What he received was a nod from Ben he had been watching Taizo’s every move and was impressed.

[Taizo]

“Yep that looks good Taizo now try moving using Shunshin in the same way, I want to see you go two and a half meters forward, then left and so on so that you are making a square.” Now for the fun bit Taizo had always loved Shunshin it was a highly useful technique, which could mean the difference between life and death in a battle. Taizo started to gather the chakra in to his leg muscles.

When Taizo’s quadriceps and calves were saturated in enough chakra, he made his move; he darted forward at a unbelievable speed. All the time using his boxing stance, so was actually dragging his rear foot all the way. When had moved two and a half meters forward he quickly transitioned into moving to the left this time dragging his right foot.

The time this took was less than a second in fact the movement was so fast, that it was highly difficult to see where Taizo was at. After he completed on lap around the square Taizo came to a stop, he put his hands on his legs rubbing them. Normally if he had done that many Shunshin he would have ripped his leg muscles but it felt like he had only done one this technique was a god send it would allow him to move around easier in battle.

“The next move I am going to teach you is a deadly on so deadly in fact that it is banned from the world of boxing, but I’m sure you will be able to put it to good use it is called the rabbit punch. Have you ever killed a rabbit? Well you strike it to the back of the head that is where this technique comes from it will break an opponents neck, and if that happens bang game over. They die and you live it is as simple as that”