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Chen steps into the fighting ring, wearing a black Chinese gi that was made of silk. He wore kung fu sandals that fit around the bottom of his feet, covering the toes. In his hands he held a three section staff, the right hand on the forward part and the left hand on the rear part, as this would be deemed their names for clearance purposes, the middle part left unheld and controlled by the supporting ends. Sliding his right foot forward and stretching it out, his left leg bends to support the crouch, extending the staff across the front of his body with the forward end pointing at the ground, looking toward this opponent.

((Just a reference of what's going on. Chen's much much younger than the old man in the picture.))

Chen only nods before he suddenly takes quick steps toward Muso, remaining in the generally same stance he had taken. Feet moving in this narrow line toward the opponent, his right hand moves toward the middle part of the staff, and grips it near the chain, using slight circular motion of the wrist to cause the forward end to now be spinning in front of him in a whirlwind effect. His left hand kept on the rear part.

With the distance closed to about three feet, Chen takes advantage of the range, his right foot the forward as he moves his right hand horizontally to the right with a flick of his forearm to release the spinning end toward Muso's face. The indication that he was going to use this attack was only evident by the extending of his right arm forward just a bit more before it came as a blur within Muso's vision. The hard wood that the staff was made out of it was sure to give Muso a painful hit, should it hit him.

That's right, Chen thought. Follow the movement of his hands. Read his body language. He wanted Muso to get to know how Chen moved his body. He wanted him to be on the false intention that the body movement's revealed the direction of this weapon as if he was still using a straight, stiff bo staff. Upon the forward part of the staff striking Muso into his guard, the recoil will have it coming back, which has Chen bend his body forward while having his hand control it over the back and release the middle part, the left hand solely moving it in this wide arc behind his back. His right hand would go behind there to capture the tristaff at the forward part on its way back around in its counter-clockwise motion, and would let the left hand leave grip.

With a slight hop to the right as his left foot steps over first with the right foot following, he uses the movement of the turn of his hips, keeping range when he sees Muso try a lunge in his direction. He was not going to allow him to get close to him that easily, especially without some kind of penalty. And so, with the sole grip of the end of the tristaff, he swings the rear part of it at the left leg of Muso in the motion of a whip. The middle part would clash into the outside of the left leg before the rear part would bend around by the chain and have itself smack into the back of his thigh. With such power coming from the wide arc of a swing, Muso was going to go falling down forward due to the loss of balance that the attack will inflict. A person could cause someone to fall to their knee just by taking a baton and smacking into the person's thigh from behind to offset the feeling in the leg. This force was multiplied due the make up of the staff itself, obviously.

Blocking with the shin would just have the forward part strike into the back of the raised calf, along with grazing the inside of the other leg's thigh. The end came close to whacking Muso in the "cahones", too.

((For clearer purposes, I will call the part hitting into the back of the leg A, the middle part will keep its name, and the part that he's holding with his right hand will be called B.))

When the strike hits, the recoil fuels the weapon coming back in the opposite direction, Chen exchanging hold of the weapon into the other hand from behind as he takes another few hops back, left hand taking hold of Part A. The distance between them was now 5 feet. And from that distance, with the left hand solely wielding the weapon, Chen's body's movement will have the whip-like motion striking toward Muso's stomach with a fulled dynamic swing, Part B, the part that was not in any hand and thus being the attacking part, about to strike into the intended spot of his body. Because the swing mimicked the way he attacked Muso's legs, it may feint his foe into thinking that he was going to do it again, when he was actually attacking higher.

Talking was not the smartest thing to do in a fight, and Chen was not going to respond. This was a serious fight, after all, not a sit-down-and-chat cafe, at least that is what Chen was mentally thinking it as when Muso spoke.

The staff was aimed at the stomach, not the chest area. Taking a hit there was more painful than one to the chest, as it was capable of knocking the breath out of Muso. But with the possibility that he could still grab it, even after such a stunning attack, with Muso grasping Part B, Chen has his left hand grasp to the middle as his right hand takes hold of the other side of the middle close to Part A. And that is when he moves in.

Muso did not have to aid him to get him into close range. Chen was already coming, not fearing closing the distance between them. With the hanging Part A end, Chen takes advantage of Muso's hands occupied with gripping Part B, and swings Part A at the left thigh like he done before, once again from three feet away. That was all the distance he needed to attack with the three-foot end. If the attack hit, it would try to send Muso onto his knees, which then he would follow up with a strike for the side of his head. But if that didn't have him fall, Chen would repeatedly have Part A hit at the man's legs until he reacted to it with one of his hands. Chen was ready to shift between where he hit depending on what Muso does.

As much as Muso tugged, Chen still had that loose end, capable of still swinging it despite the tugging of Muso. He kept the chain between Part B and the middle part at a perpendicular angle, meaning he was following Muso as he moved to keep him from being pulled. To pull him, Muso would have to straighten the link to get a straight line of the weapon, but Chen kept in the same relative position so his opponent would not be able to take advantage of that, continuously beating him at the legs.

When Muso finally goes for a full charge, Chen moves the middle part around to his left instead of his right of his body, has his right hand stay on it while the left holds Part A, and pulls with his left hand just when Muso gets into range, moving to the left side in a step, while kicking out his right foot to attempt to trip Muso. He would be holding up the middle part in a vertical manner, to act as a guard against any high attacks while he performed a low one himself.

Muso really wanted his leg, didn't he? But since Chen was kicking at his legs and not somewhere at waist level where the hands would have an easier time grabbing, then Chen would see this attack coming from yards away. Just by releasing the end of his staff at him was more of saying that his hands were about to come into play as Part B hits into the right of his hip. Blunt, but not that type of pain that was going to cripple him on cue. And then Muso goes for taking him down by this leg, a leg that was low and required bending for.

With Muso tackling at the leg, Chen just brings the right leg in more of a quarter circle to the right to make Muso chase after it. But because his charge was a straight line, the chase would end with Chen's foot moving out of the way, placing the Asian to the right of the prone Muso.


No opportune moment could have come to him like now. Chen practically has his left foot stomp down onto the small of Muso's back to pin him in place, takes grip of the middle part of the staff, and practically uses a whipping motion against the back of Muso's head. The way he would hit him is that each hand controlled an end of the middle part. When he moves down Part A end, that end smacks into the right side of Muso's head. When Part A is gone, with movement of his left hand, Part B would simultaneously hit into the back of the head.

And the process will repeat in a quick combination that would bring growing trauma and concussion to Muso as each of the hard wood strikes into his skull, like a number of police officers were standing around him and just having their batons strike one after another at Muso. Of course the strikes won't be accurate, as they would sometimes hit into Muso's arms or even his upper back, but the head was the general aiming area.