Finding my place

Selena Desmarais ■ She is in over her head XD

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Jason was carefully watching and providing tips to Selena so she could have a perfect stance. He smiled good naturedly as she seemed eager to spar. "This is in fact a very decent stand, but can you move?" He asked her meaningfully and turned to a face off. He waited for a brief moment for her to try so before adding. "It is okay if you can't stay that low. It takes considerable leg training to maintain the stance."[break][break]

Meanwhile Nocta and Cerberus had been lounging at the sidelines along with Selena's pokemon, watching their trainers practising. "One last thing before we spar. Don't hold your weapon too tight. It will tire you out a lot faster than if you only tighten your grip the moment before the parry, like so..." He moved his hand from a relaxed, supinated position inwards towards his left side slowly, swordgrip visibly relaxed before it explosively snapped tight the last few centimeters before his sword pomell had aligned with his left shoulder.[break][break]

"Now what you saw me do, is the easiest blocking method there is. The next thing most people do is to follow with a forward thrust. So if you come at me with a forward thrust..." He explained and motioned for her to slowly thrust forward as he parried her at the same speed. "Then I can easily move the tip of your blade out of the way and counterattack while you are exposed." He finished his move with a forward thrust that stopped short of her chest in a controlled manner.[break][break]

Getting back up and into a more casual ready stance he tilted his head slightly at her. "Of course there is the 'easier' way of your typical movie duels where you have a certain number of different slashes and all the other person has to do is evade or block your blade." He went through a relatively fast circle of the the different slashes with precise wrist flicks. "Which style would you rather spar with?" He offered her the choice as the crowd cheered from the nearby tents.