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Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

[blue]“Now for Pajon Chang San this is like a combination for the move requires you to throw the a punch and a kick at the same time. Sound hard to do, doesn’t it? The combination is again a universal technique that can be used for attack, defence and escape. For this move we are going to target your opponent’s chin and rib area, when attacking the ribs it would be good advise to say to try to aim down the centre line of your opponent as that's were their organs and most vulnerable parts are.”[/blue]Ben the proceed to show with his glove what he meant running his glove from his eyebrows down to his belly button

[blue]“ The punch is thrown with the right hand, hitting the chin, and the left leg is simultaneously swung to deliver a kick to your opponent’s right rib. Your full body weight is transferred by the right leg, while the left elbow is drawn back so you can stay balanced. The simultaneous punch and kick technique is best used for opponents who have a wide stance. ”[/blue] he then showed Ryu a example of a wide stance placing his feet at twenty past twelve, and explaining how open he would be to attacks [blue]“Right the Ryu lets try it out ten times then we will move on”[/blue]

Ryu got into his stance for this move he would adopt a ten past twelve stance meaning that his lead foot was straight and his rear one would make a angle of 60 degrees. His arms where high and tight, his elbows protecting his ribs from any attack that could come and his fists guarding his chin, which was tucked in at shoulder level. Ryu's eyes where fixed at the upper abdominal area of were his opponent would be. Ryu's right shoulder and hip twisted throwing a powerful punch, at the same time Ryu threw out a roundhouse kick that would have destroyed its targets ribs. As the punch finished extending he pulled it back his body still moving as he had kicked though with the round house resulting in his body ending up thirty degrees to the right of were it started he adjusted his position and threw nine more in a similar manor

Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

His arm cut thought the air as it twisted. By the time the arm had full extend and his movement forward had stopped the palm of his hand was facing down and the shoulders were still in front of the hips which would channel power from his feet up to his punch. The arm was rapidly pulled back to cover the chin and exposed the ribs. He moved his rear leg to the back and slide his lead foot after it. He would then proceed to launch of nine more punches until he was stopped by Ben. [blue]“Fantastic work Ryu your a natural now I'm just going to run though the basics of the defence and counter-attacks”[/blue] Ben handed Ryu a light blue towel to mop the sweat from his face he did so placing the now damp towel on the windowsill next to his bottle [blue]“thanks for the towel and all the help you have been giving me Ben”[/blue] he would get a laugh as a response showing that Ryu was welcome

[blue]“The best way in my opinion to block this attack is with a quick movement. You can prevent the long punch by moving your straight left arm above your head and then swing your arm to sweep your opponent’s right arm away. The reason for this is that it will knock their punching arm down and off target leaving them with out a attack. The counter-attack is also fairly simple, vigorously fling a left roundhouse kick, targeting the opponent’s spine. If the Intra Kwang Jak is thrown with a straightened left arm, make a roundhouse kick with your right leg, this time aiming for the left rib. The reason that the counter-attack works is that a kick has a longer range than a punch does and the blow will cause the opponent to be knocked of balance and the attack stopped”[/blue]

Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

[blue]“now the defence against this technique is fairly basic use your left hand to create a sweeping motion and wipe the opponent’s arm down. Your head can also be leaned back to stay away from the approaching uppercut. The reason this works is that the attacking arm is moved out of the way leaving them with out a weapon. The counter attack two this technique is open to two different methods the first use your left foot to hit the boxer on the abdomen with a kick called a teep. The second method is that you throw your elbow at the opponent’s face. If the attacker is left-handed, then the attacking and countering moves should be one in reverse. The reason for the counter attack working is that the teep will make the opponent out of range to attack with punches, the elbow works because you can close the range not giving the opponent enough range to successfully land the attack”[/blue]

[blue]“right then as a example I want you to attack me with the move and I will defend against it”[/blue] Again Ryu arranged his feet to get in to his stance the lead foot facing forward towards Ben his rear one pointing out parallel to him, he was raised on the balls of his feet for more moveability. His fists were up in his guard, elbows tucked in protecting his chin and ribs, his chin was as all ways tucked in a shoulder high, his eyes were fixed on Ben's upper abdomen so he could see any attack coming at him. He stepped forward, at the same time he dropped his right shoulder then drove his glove up towards Ben's chin. As he was doing this Ben's left hand made a sweeping motion knocking Ryu's upper cut out of the way he also adjusted his head so that if he had missed Ryu's hands they would be a good chance that he would still miss the punch

Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

Ryu positioned himself with the bag as Ben adjusted bag to the correct hight his lead foot pointing directly forward, his rear foot pointing out forming a sixty degree angle. He was positioned up on the balls of his feet with his hands covering his chin and his elbows raised up to a parallel with the floor. His body was at range that was close enough to hit the bag but to far for it to hit him on the rebound. Ryu fired of his right hand hitting the bag forcing it to bounce off the back then the front, again he struck it increasing the speed at which he hit the bag, the 'tar tat tat' sound ringing out though the gym as it was hit more and more times by this basic combination of one two three , three times then swap hands and repeat with the other. By this point the bag was practically a blur the only way of timing it was from the loud noise emanating from the ball as striking the wooden board.

To mix things up at bit Ryu decided to change what he was doing after a good five minutes of work. To a different sequence from the three on one hand, swapping to a hit for each hand so that after a three count on one hand he would swap to the other hand. The bag seemed to speed up with this new form and as Ben didn't seem to disprove of this new technique he carried on the sound of the bag radiating around the room making a rhythm for everybody else to follow it sounded like a old fashioned train chugging down a track, as the red blur bounced repeatedly from front to back its speed gradually increasing. Until at least twenty minutes had gone by. Ben had just been standing in awe at the rate Ryu was learning the techniques although it was properly only naturally due to his harse life that was full of fighting whether it be hand to hand or weapon based

Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

[blue]“Next we will move on to the speed ball that's the little one in the left corner of the room”[/blue] Ryu is lead over to the corner and Ben starts to explain it to him [blue]“ The Speed ball is a tear-drop shaped ball with a wooden platform mounted above as you can see. Its very good for endurance as you have both hands punching continuously. It also encourages hand and foot co-ordination. Its not always popular hence we only have the one bag the reason, is punches are made in an unrealistic rolling fashion, and the noise they make is incredible. Its unsuitable for home use because of the amount of noise it makes so we thought that we would up at least one in the gym and if it got popular add more later but as it turns out it didn't. Now look at the design of the bag I'm not talking about it being bright red, I'm talking more about the design as you can see its a tear drop shape so this is going to effect how you hit it.”[/blue]

[blue]“First of all you want to adjust the bag so that its the right high for you, I'm going to do this for you but for future reference you just pull the pin out of the back of the board and move it up or down so that the flattest part of the ball if about mouth hight this is for a fairly obvious reason that if the bag is the wrong hight it will give you poor technique. After that your going to want to get in your standard stance for bag work just the ten past twelve or quarter past just what ever feels better to you personally, I prefer to do this with my lead foot and rear foot forming about a sixty degree angle. You want to keep your shoulders square with the bag and your feet about shoulder length apart. Your arms only going to extend a couple of inches so you want to be pretty close but not so much that the bag will hit you in the face because that would just make you look silly”[/blue] Ben then done as he had explained lining the bag up at the correct hight for him and getting into his stance

Ryu does some muay thai training

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Kiss and tell by You me at Six.

Butt bag
--Kakkou x2 (2 slot)
--Kunai x2 (1 slot)
--Shuriken x5 (1 slot)
--Concealed Mouth Ember x5 (1 slot)

Soft x1 (Chain Whip)

Training Weights x1 (B ranked)

Ben walked of and returned moments later with two bottles, one was a bottle of Powerade :Mountain Berry Blast and the other was Powerade: Lemon Lime [blue]“I didn't what you liked so I got one of each”[/blue] Ryu looked at the two bottles before saying [blue]“I'm more of a mountain berry kinder guy”[/blue] Ben threw the bottle to Ryu and they both processed to drink the whole bottles whilst making short talk about what interested Ryu in Muay Thai, other martial arts he did.

[blue]“Right then Ryu lets get started on the heavy bag”[/blue] Ryu placed the bottle on the windowsill near by and when back to the bag. He push his left glove back up as it was starting to slide down a bit. When he was ready he arranged his feet his lead was a couple of inches to the left of the bag pointing straight ahead, the rear was pointing at a diagonal angle about sixty degrees from his lead foot. His left a was pulled in tight his elbow protecting his ribs and his hand covering his chin which was tucked at about shoulder hight. His right hand was mimicking his left guarding his chin and ribs

Suddenly he exploded of his rear foot twisting his hips and shoulders towards the target as his punch extended it twisted to additional power to the blow, his punch was aimed downwards ever so slightly so that the index and middle knuckle would make contact first as they are the strongest part of the hand. His hips were behind his shoulders as he stood upright, he did this to stop himself from going of balance and less chance of a counter-attack. The power for the attack came up through his legs, core and arms to the bag making it a very powerful punch when it make contact with the bag. Even though the punch hit it kept on going as he punched though the bag, it swayed backwards with a large noise before swinging back to wards Ryu. He quickly whipped his outstretched arm back to his chin and positioned it so it could also protect his ribs then moved to the left of it. A similar kind of thing happened for the next five minutes with Ryu dancing around the bag hitting it with shot after shot.[blue]“Right Ryu now we move on to some thing called circling the pad you just go to the centre of the room whist I set it up”[/blue]