SELF-DEFENSE FOR DUMMIES (YOU KNOW YOU NEED IT)

[sleepingkogoro]

It has been subtle. Several posters may have appeared during the week. They don't have any cat drawings or even fancy typography, in fact, they are not even large! It's forgivable you may have missed them.

The text in them is concise enough.

YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF.
Thursday Morning, Dojo
Self-defense class
THE MOST BASIC CONCEPTS
as taught by Kogoro Mouri

It only took like five weeks before it finally happened.

The dojo is prepared for the event. The mats has been distributed until they covered most of the area. A few chairs have been taken from rooms downstairs and placed for anyone who comes.

All the way to the front there is Kogoro Mouri, dressed in an absolutely horrid neon yellow jumpsuit. It is better than fighting in a suit, at least. Yosuke Hanamura is there too, as Mouri's assistant for the class.

The general objective is not to turn people into competent fighters, because that'd be impossible. What Mouri wants is at least give an idea of what they could do, shown through very basic concepts. That should be good for something, right?

Comments

[captainobnoxious]

[-- Oh boy!! Sigrun's absolutely dragging Aiden over to a little place away, forget the lessons let's go.]

Great! What are you good with? Hands? Knives? I'll match.

[uro_cyon]

We can do hand-to-hand. I don't think they'd appreciate it [ Throwing a glance at Mouri and Yosuke--] if we used actual weapons here.

[captainobnoxious]

That's because they're teaching basics. The kid and I went at each other with knives for first blood earlier this week, it was fun.

[She still has the knives on her too, somewhere. She's started to carry them around. As a comfort.]

I'd hope that they'd introduce real weapons later on though, there's a huge difference in knowing how to move with and against one. Right? You'd agree, right?

[uro_cyon]

Did you? [ That's interesting to know.]

There is. But you have to start somewhere. [ Cynically he doesn't think that these self-defense tactics will amount to much, not against someone with actual training.]

[captainobnoxious]

[Thankfully, that number of actual training is dwindling down. So this is helpful in some regard.]

True that. And though we're starting standing up, you're ending on the ground. First to pin wins. How's that sound?

[uro_cyon]

That's fine by me. [ He takes a moment to remove his coat-- there was no point in wearing it right now, and it would just give her more opportunity to grab him by.]

Ladies first. [ His stance is pretty open-ended, though it's clear that he plans to be defensive to see what her fighting style is like.]