Drop and give me fifty!! - OTA

[captaine_sykes]

The open space in the center of camp has been cordoned off for the last couple of days, Ethan has been over seeing as the ground is remarked with clear distinction of combatant training areas. Posters have been dotted around camp notifying the team that they are all expected to attend the team training days that are up coming. First of all is the

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[greenhaired]

Polaris was not overly skilled in hand to hand combat.

She did the rest of her PT fairly well, average they would say. Lorna hated being classed as average, there was nothing average about her, thank you very much. But that was where they classed her -speed, agility, stamina, all of it. Average.

She knew how to fight. She'd been given a few classes, done the whole 'empower yourself' back in Beverly Hills when they had a peeping Tom on the loose and all the females in the school were given self-defence classes. But this was probably a little more than kick them in the balls, poke them in the eye, bite them in the hand sort of fighting.

This, honestly, was not her bag.

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[captaine_sykes]

Ethan isn't expecting everyone on camp to have the level of combat skills he possesses, let alone that of the likes of Wilson or Daken. What he is hoping to see though, is that the team are able to mostly demonstrate an ability to learn. Or at least a willingess to try.

He smiles at Lorna, glancing up from his paperwork and noting down everything that she's done with her p/t so far.

"Okay let's see what you can do. If you're comfortable with it I want you to spar with me, see if you can land a hit and we'll look t osee if there are any areas of weakness that we can work on." By this point in the day Ethan is just about ready to play nice because he's got Wilson out of the way. Thank goodness.

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[greenhaired]

Areas of weakness? Right. Minimal upper body strength would be the first thing to note, Lorna assumed. "Okay," she could try though, at the very least she could throw a few punches, and avoid a few more probably.

When push came to shove though, and if Lorna ever had to deal without her powers, she'd be fighting dirty all the way. "So, I bruise easy, and purple sort of clashes with green." She flicked a strand of her bangs out of her face, back to where her ponytail was rather poorly held together.

But surely the Captain would be more than skilled enough to not bruise up Lorna. "One of us has to be good at this, right?" Nerves made her talk a little.

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[captaine_sykes]

Ethan chuckles and holds up a finger to indicate that Lorna should wait a minute, he retrieves the boxing gloves that Adrian had earlier used and hands them to Lorna, whilst she puts those on takes the punch pads and easily slips them on. "To save you from a potential fashion disaster let's just see what you can do like this."

Yes, Ethan did just crack a joke and the world didn't end.

"I've no intention of bruising you anyway, wouldn't look to good if everyone showed up to see Emma sporting an injury of some sort." Though some members of the team could do with a good ass kicking from time to time.

I spent more time on your double negative there than I did reading the tag you dork.

[greenhaired]

His comment gets a small smirk from her, and a raised eyebrow. "Me? Showing up to Emma bruised, crying foul of your training?" Because she would, it was just the type of girl she was. "She'd kick your ass."

And as great as the Captain seems; fair and open minded and pretty much okay on the all around, Lorna is still pretty sure that Emma could wipe the floor with his good-boy ass. Without issue. That is the way of hero worship.

With the gloves on, and Lorna not weeping for her manicure, Polaris punches her fists together like she'd seen in the movies and rolls the tension out of her shoulders. "Right, lets go." And she can hit a target fairly well, even if it's not with too much strength.

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[captaine_sykes]

"Would I dare to insinuate such a thing?" Ethan does however laugh at that remark and even goes so far as to nod in agreement. "I do think there would be distinctly less kicking and more mental abuse involved though. Sadly I don't see Emma to be the type to risk breaking a nail just to kick my ass."

Ethan guides Lorna through three rounds of simply punches and kicks, making sure to point out any areas of weakness when she lets her guard drop. He demonstrates some combination moves, watching as Lorna carries them out.

"You seem to have the technique, it's just the strength you put behind your punches that needs to be focused on. Go on, try to hit me as hard as you can, I'll even allow you a shot at punching my stomach, not my face to include an incentive."

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[greenhaired]

"You'd be surprised," Lorna mutters it under her breath, because she understands that Emma is a confusing woman sometimes. Fabulous and intelligent and devious, but confusing sometimes too. "She could always make you kick your own ass." Which would be an interesting feat.

Getting the direction on the training is helpful, she doesn't usually get that much in the way of hand-to-hand training and although she can passably defend herself, she knows she relies heavily on her powers.

"Wow, you're the first guy that's ever asked to be hit. Are you sure I can't just demonstrate the awesome that is my open palmed slap to the face? I've had a hell of a lot of practice on that?" It's not that she's overly worried or anything -she's pretty pathetic really, it's not like she'd actually be able to hurt him. Ever. It's just that she really is good at slapping guys.

[captaine_sykes]

"Let's not be giving her any ideas please." Because it's bad enough having an office in the same building as that woman, made worse when during meetings, when she is feeling particularly irritating, she pre-empts his every word or idea thanks to her mutation. Ethan's never had a problem with telepaths before now but Emma certainly encourages a certain sense of irritation.

That said it could just be Emma in general.

"I'm sure your slapping skills are admirable but I particularly want to see what your punch is like." Ethan isn't concerned with whether the punch will hurt or not, he wants to observe Lorna's technique and then he can help her improve on it.

[greenhaired]

"Oh, fine." She understands that she's not going to hurt him; even if his powers weren't sort of making that impossible, she's just not go the power to hurt him with a punch.

Bringing her fist back, and in a manner shown to her by Emma, bringing it back up, Lorna executes a crude kind of uppercut to punch Sykes in the gut. There's a little bit of strength in it, but not nearly as much as she can get with her powers. Or a swift boot to the balls. Which is all she really needs sometimes.

"See, shit. I told you, I slap harder."

[captaine_sykes]

The punch is rather crude and Ethan doesn't even budge when it connects with his gut, just watches and observes as Lorna pulls her hand back. He won't deny that women are renowned for fighting dirty, using any and every tactic available to them, especially when up against a male opponent. He's seen hair pulling, eye scratching, ear biting, ball kicking, slapping and pinching, executed against others when they're forced to fight.

But that doesn't mean Ethan won't be showing Lorna how to throw a decent punch. Moving to stand behind Lorna, Ethen guides her hands up and leans around her, to demonstrate a correct punch stance and move. He repeats the gesture over, explaining how to twist her arm to ensure that Lorna doesn't harm herself and be mindful of not tucking her thumb into her fist.

"Now," Ethan, once happy with the practice, returns back to standing opposite Lorna. "Try it again."

[greenhaired]

For some reason, Lorna always did better at things with a male teacher. It was weird. Especially when they were fairly attractive (who was she kidding, Sykes was fucking hot) and decent guys to boot. She would've expected that he concentration would fall, or that she wouldn't pay attention, or that she'd overcompensate. Instead -and Lorna knew Emma exploited this- Lorna tended to do so much better than when she couldn't drum up that little bit of attraction.

So, Sykes taking her through the move, step at a time with the directions, Lorna committed it all to memory, concentrating on what she was being shown and correcting herself.

Trying it on her own, Lorna gave herself the mental slap in the face and just did it, going exactly how Sykes had shown her before and minding her thumb. "Better?"

[captaine_sykes]

The move is perfectly executed that time and Ethan is satisfied that Lorna will just need a little fine tuning in her moves. Of course he gets the feeling that she'll stick to her slap techniques no matter what he says because obviously that is what she feels most confident with. But be at least ensuring she has alternative moves to use Ethan can say he did his job!

"Much." Filling in the green form Ethan hands it over to Lorna. "I'll look int otailoring your p/t around some more defensive skills but beyond that I think it's pretty safe to say you are free to go find Frost and move onto the next part of your assessment."

[greenhaired]

Taking the slip, grinning just a little, Lorna shoves it between her teeth while she redoes her hair into the ponytail it had started out in. "Thanks, I suppose any P/T that allows me to beat up on someone should be good P/T."

But Sykes was probably right; when it came to bare bones, and Lorna had to fight for her life without powers, she'd likely resort to the kicking, slapping, hair pulling way of her youth.