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Post by NPC on Mar 17, 2021 18:14:18 GMT -6
This is your own thread, your own room in the gym, where you can work on any of the stats you desire. No more than 2 in each, and no more than 5 total! Good luck!
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:16:44 GMT -6
Now here is a place Kadin had never been before. He thought that he was starting to run out of those by now, but it turns out there’s still plenty of them all around the labs. Kadin looked around at the building with Lucio by his, side wondering what exactly they were supposed to do now. They walked around until they found a wide open area outdoors that seemed pretty in line with what Kadin had been looking for in regard to what he wanted to teach his drake. After all, Kadin wanted to work on getting Lucio to be more dexterous. They had some fights coming up and Kadin want to make sure that Lucio I would be able to properly dodge out of the way of different attacks when they were coming at him. He didn’t want Lucio to accidentally get caught up in any of the other drakes attacks. [154] 1
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:21:16 GMT -6
Kadin decide to start Lucio off with the weave poles. Kadin was pretty grateful that they had the ribbon of telepathy right now. He imagined that without it, it might be more difficult to explain to Lucio what he wanted him to do, but right now he could actually tell Lucio what he wanted him to do. So the whole point of this training was that Lucio would be more nimble and better able to dodge attacks. So the first thing he wanted him to do was go through the polls and work on dodging. This way he’d work on being more dexterous by dodging through the polls and he’d later be able to translate that to actual fights. Lucio seemed a little bit leery at this plan. He wasn’t really a big fan of the polls, just from looking at them, but Kadin convinced him to do it anyway.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:22:48 GMT -6
It was through liberal application of both treats and bargaining, but hey! It worked. So Lucio was going to give this a shot. This was also Lucio‘s first time here, at the gym, so neither of them have been here before. Neither of them really knew what they were doing, but they both didn’t want Lucio to be embarrassed in any of his fights to come. Long story short, Lucio went over to the polls and gave them a sniff first. Then, responding to Kadin’s encouragement, he started walking through them very carefully. He didn’t want to get his wings snagged or for any of the poles to fall down on top of him, like they looked like they would. None of them ended up leaning on him or seem to be attacking him. And, as he continued to walk through them, he noticed that they were spaced out enough that he could walk through them easily enough.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:26:01 GMT -6
Kadin encouraged him to walk through them faster and faster, once he saw that Lucio was starting to get used to them. First he started a walk just to get used to the polls. Kadin had him walk through the polls several times until Lucio seemed more confident with walking through the polls. Then he told Lucio to try to speed walk through the polls as fast as he could. Lucio picked up the pace for Kadin and tried going through the polls a little bit faster. It was more difficult, but also manageable. One Lucio seem to have that down, Kadin encouraged him to start trotting through the polls. Lucio wasn’t sure how quickly you can go to the polls, especially with his wings, but Kadin kept telling him that it would improve his chances in the fight. He supposed it was at least worth a try to go a bit faster.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:46:37 GMT -6
So he was going to give it a shot. Lucio started going through the polls more to trot and dodging through them to try to increase his dexterity in motion. Once Lucio seemed to have a trot through the poles down Kadin encouraged him to go even faster. He wanted him to be able to run through the polls at the end of the day, even if Lucio still seemed a little bit nervous about whether or not he’d actually be able to do that or not. Kadin still encouraged him to pick up the pace. He had him trot faster and faster through the polls until he was basically cantering through them. Lucio had to dodge through the polls quicker and quicker. He wasn’t able to completely run through them, not like a smaller animal might’ve been able to. But he was still able to go through them plenty quickly by the time Kadin called for a break.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 7:49:39 GMT -6
He made sure Lucio had a snack and some water so that he’d be able to keep his energy up. Next up he wanted Lucio to try some jumping to better work on his dexterity. He had Lucio go over to where there seem to be a track set up. Here he had him start running around the track. After all, part of being able to dodge attacks was being able to move quickly out of the way. For that you need to have enough endurance in order to be able to properly keep your speed up for a long amount of time. You also need to have plenty of situational awareness. On that note, while Lucio was running around Kadin started tossing some softballs at him to kind of increase his dexterity through being aware of what was coming at him at all times. Lucio already knew how to dodge things that were coming at him.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 8:06:10 GMT -6
But he had little practice in this long term format before. Kadin decided to keep having Lucio run laps while he would throw softballs at him and have him continue to try and dodge out of the way of them while he was going. This dodge training way turning out to be very similar to stuff that they had done before, so it wasn’t very difficult for Lucio to pick it up. Only this time Kadin just kept doing it even after Lucio clearly knew what he was already doing. Some softballs were even starting to hit him. But Lucio kept running around the track and doing as Kadin said because he also wanted to be able to improve on this so that he wouldn’t be caught off guard in battles later on. Kadin had Lucio continue running around the track and throwing the softballs of him until Lucio look like he needed another break.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 8:08:10 GMT -6
He decided to let Lucio take another break in order to drink some water and have another snack to keep his energy up. That was the thing about being dexterous, wasn’t it? It only worked when you were able to keep your energy levels up. Once you start to lag behind, you fall behind. Next up Kadin had Lucio go back to the weave poles to make sure he was still doing well at those and see if there was any improvements after trying with the softballs. He wanted to keep the different exercises moving and make sure that he worked out many different parts himself so that it could be said that he was well rounded in order to be able to dodge out of the way of different attacks. Lucio went through the weave poles just as he had before and seem to really have this one down.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 8:10:53 GMT -6
He was pleased by this and seem pretty satisfied that he would probably be able to dodge out of the way of all different sorts of stuff like this. So next Kadin decided to take Lucio over to where there seemed to be poles that he could jump over instead. This was also by the track but in a different circle of it. Kadin had Lucio run around the track. This time while Lucio was running around the track he had to jump over bars of various different heights while he was running. Kadin had Lucio take several laps around the track jumping over those different bars while he was going. After he finished the last one, Kadin would go out and move the bars around so that it was a different configuration than the last time. He didn’t want Lucio to get used to just one sort of track and only ever know how to do that one.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 9:00:01 GMT -6
He wanted to make sure that he knew how to jump and dodge and keep moving no matter how the track was set up. So Kadin move the polls around between each session. After a while he also started introducing the softballs again while Lucio was running around track and jumping over the different polls. After all, can’t make it easy for him. Kadin would toss the ball softly towards Lucio while he was running around the track and jumping over the polls. Kadin decided to get the weave poles all set up on the track as well so Lucio would have to go through that at some point while he was running. He was definitely getting hit with more balls than he was used to. After all he did know danger sense and dodge but Kadin was increasing the difficulty of this track higher and higher each time he went around the track.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 9:01:53 GMT -6
So it was getting a little hard for Lucio to keep up. Still, Kadin wanted him to keep going, and pushing, and being challenged because the whole point of this was that he would be improving. After time went by Lucio did seem to start dodging more balls than he did originally. Not all of them hit him. Well. Not all of them hit him to begin with, but now he was getting even better at dodging out of the way of them even while he was busy running around the track. After Kadin had Lucio at this for a good long while he decided that he needed another break because Kadin did not want to burn Lucio out on this training. He wanted to make sure that he was pacing himself and being healthy while he was doing it. So he had Lucio to take another break for a little while.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 9:03:27 GMT -6
He had him have a snack and drink some water to make sure that he was staying well hydrated and full of energy. After they were done with the break Kadin had Lucio go back to the weave poles again. It’s what they started with originally and he felt that Lucio could probably benefit most from practicing on that since it was the most unlike anything he had tried with him before. Today at least. So Kadin had Lucio go through the weave poles trying to get them to go faster and faster each time. He really wanted Lucio to concentrate this time on increasing his speed as much as possible while he kept going through the weave polls. After a certain point he started tossing the balls at him again while he was going through the weave poles as well. And you know just adding in different things to make it a little bit more challenging for Lucio.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 9:04:22 GMT -6
Kadin had him kept practicing this until Lucio was able to go through the weave poles in just a few seconds at a time, shaving off more and more time every time he went through. Then Kadin had Lucio go back to jumping over the different poles as well and then going to do the polls. He had him alternate between the two different types of obstacles while he was running on the track and then running back to the beginning and running through the whole course again. He wanted him to have a variety of different ways of getting moving and learning how to dodge things so he wanted to make sure that he was able to go from one to another with ease. As long as he was able to keep practicing this and keep going between one to another quickly and effectively Kadin was confident that he would do better at being able to dodge attacks in the future.
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Post by Kadin on Mar 18, 2021 9:05:55 GMT -6
Once he’d practiced a little bit more with both the weave poles and the dodging Kadin had him go back to the track and put them all three together again. He set up different weave pole areas and jump poles around the track for Lucio to dodge and jump while he was going around the track. Kadin had Lucio run the track and try to improve his time each time. This time he wasn’t throwing any balls at him he was just having him run the track over and over until he could say that he was well improved at running the track and getting faster times. Kadin had Lucio run the circuit several times and his score did improve each time. Kadin praised him every time that he improved his score and he kept him at it until he was shaving more and more seconds off his official time from the start.
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