12-21-2014, 06:27 PM
Connor got into the ring and cracked his neck to the right and then to the left. His muscles were loose from the last bout. He felt ready. This was going to be friendly anyway.
Pretty soon they were going at it, dancing around, probing, attacking, defending. He'd been doing it for a few months and was feeling confident. Giovanni was doing pretty well and the few strikes he landed were solid. But on the main, Connor had him on the defensive for most of the match. The man seemed to know how to fight but his moves indicated that he hadn't done so in a long time, the timing being slightly off or too slow.
Course, having a guy like Charlie- at his fighting peak- come at you with a whirlwind of feet and hands was a real quick motivator to learn as fast as possible- not if you didn't want to spend the whole afternoon on the mat, anyway.
All in all, he liked the fighting. It was a way to shut your brain off. Well, that wasn't quite it. You were actually more alert than at any other time. It was just that you were so focused on what you were doing- your whole body a machine you were piloting at speeds never before encountered for more than a few seconds- that you didn't have any other attention to spare to other more esoteric or mundane matters. Bottom line, it was fun.
Pretty soon they were going at it, dancing around, probing, attacking, defending. He'd been doing it for a few months and was feeling confident. Giovanni was doing pretty well and the few strikes he landed were solid. But on the main, Connor had him on the defensive for most of the match. The man seemed to know how to fight but his moves indicated that he hadn't done so in a long time, the timing being slightly off or too slow.
Course, having a guy like Charlie- at his fighting peak- come at you with a whirlwind of feet and hands was a real quick motivator to learn as fast as possible- not if you didn't want to spend the whole afternoon on the mat, anyway.
All in all, he liked the fighting. It was a way to shut your brain off. Well, that wasn't quite it. You were actually more alert than at any other time. It was just that you were so focused on what you were doing- your whole body a machine you were piloting at speeds never before encountered for more than a few seconds- that you didn't have any other attention to spare to other more esoteric or mundane matters. Bottom line, it was fun.