010 [Action, OTA] Evening training

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

[Bulla's in the Training Center getting in a good workout. Rather than focusing on strength, today her focus is on speed and endurance. They're both useful for combat, and much less hazardous than her previous regiment of seeing how far she could launch grats with punches or kicks.

At the moment, Bulla's sprinting through the training center. Periodically, she'll abruptly leap up mid-run into a spinning kick and follow up with a combination of punches and kicks before bursting back into a run.

Someone should probably insist that she pause and have a drink of water soon.]

Comments

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Um...no.

[She blinks a little at such a specific guess. Maybe the only aliens the boy had ever met did that?]

Saiyans can use chi blasts and use chi to fly, although a few human martial artists can do that, too.

[worthyheir]

I've had several tutors that taught me about chi, and I'm fairly certain you cannot use it to fly. [Though if you could, that would be pretty cool in his book.]

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to have a lot of it to use that technique, but it's possible.

[She takes a very thorough look around to make sure the boy is the only other person here right now, focuses her chi, and flies a small circle around him before landing.]

See?

[worthyheir]

[Watches her with interest. Oh. It looks the same as when Superman or Supergirl flies.] Is that supposed to prove to me it's the use of chi? How do I know it's not a part of your alien physiology?

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

I guess there is no real way to prove it to you since none of the humans from my world who can do the exact same thing are here.

[She pauses.]

Well, I can channel chi around my body...but that would prove I can use chi more than it would prove that the flying was because of chi.

[worthyheir]

That was disappointing. Here I thought I could possibly fly.

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Are you able to use chi at all?

[She tilts her head curiously.]

If you can use chi you might be able to learn to fly with training. But it does take a lot of chi and focus.

[She tries to think of something easier, and generates a small ball of chi about the size of a jawbreaker candy in the palm of her hand. It lets off a faint white glow.]

Can you do something like this? If you can, I could probably teach you how to fly at least a little bit.

[worthyheir]

I've learned about how it can be used in healing and stuff, but not how to make my hand glow like candy.

[Shows her some Tai Chi movements.]

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

I guess it's used differently where I come from. I've never heard of it being used for healing.

[She watches the movements silently for a little bit, then finally asks.]

Does that actually help if you're injured?

[worthyheir]

Chi isn't used to heal broken bones or damage to that extent, but it can help relieve stress, or to alleviate pain. Chi's believed to be a life force within all of us, and when it's flowing improperly or too slowly it causes pain. Practitioners then use various techniques to fix that flow. Tai Chi is just one of the practices.

[shops-a-lot.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it's the perfect martial arts style to practice around exam time when everyone's all stiff and sore from being hunched over textbooks for hours.

[worthyheir]

I suppose. [Has never really been in that position to judge.]