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Kenji stood as perfectly poised as his initial draw had left him. Rather than charging forwards against the opponent he moved his left hand to his wrist; lowering his stance and turning his waist slightly to bring the blade even further behind him as he dropped into an.

Rather than preparing for the enemy to come while holding a defensive stance, Kenji had instead adopted an Offensive Stance.

Nothing Chu-chu would have said would change the way that Kenji was now, it was only what Chu-chu did that would change it. What he had done was to advance forwards and begin to close the gap that was between the two of them. This made the young swordsman even more resolute in his choice of stance.

With the length of the weapon held over his shoulder, Chu-chu would have an advantage of reach over Kenji; however he would not be able to use this to his full advantage due to the type of the weapon. In the end, Chu-chu would have the advantage of one step.

Thusly, Kenji would hold his prepared stance and wait until Chu-chu was one step outside of his own range.

Kenji merely lowered his head. His right shoulder was already past forwards, his body was positioned perpendicular to that of his opponent, and to make any significant movements in response to a little bit of gravel would offset his stance.

As such, he shielded his face behind his right shoulder, and let the chips of stone and sand patter uselessly against his haori. A little bit of gravel never killed anyone, but with his Offensive Stance unbroken, Kenji's katana was likely to.

(( Physics equations:

Acceleration = Change in Speed / Time

Force = Mass x Acceleration

You apply force to a mass in order to accelerate it. Decelerating a mass also requires force. Going slow doesn't have anything to do with 'storing' anything.

Now that's basic understanding... the faster something is going then the more force it has, because in order to stop the same mass you require more deceleration... usually hoped for in the same amount of time. Math says that it's basic multiplication.

Kinetic energy is basically force. Potential energy is basically the potential for force. If you lift something off the ground, you say it has potential energy since it has the potential to fall when it is dropped, thus changing the potential to kinetic. This isn't necessarily related to force, power, whatever you want to call it. Kinetic cannot be stored, because stored is potential. It's just labeling. Like a depressed spring is 'stored potential' that becomes kinetic when the spring is released.

However, unless there's some zany magic involved... going slow isn't going to do anything other than make you go slow. You still need to speed up in order to have 'increased effect', and without crazy magic or rubber band arms it won't happen.




This his been a Bill Nye the Science Guy presentation. Science rules! ))

Kenji held his stance, waiting.

Kenji held his stance, waiting.

Kenji was not so distrusting as to believe that a dirty trick, failed once, would be repeated. Another shower of gravel, but as it was found pointless before it made no sense that one would try the same thing again. There were two possibilities: the first was that this ploy was merely a cover for something else; the second was that there was more to this than there had been to the other.

Regardless of the motive, the result would be the same. The young youjimbou would leap backwards two feet; far enough to stray from the path of the majority of the debris. He would land in a half-crouched stance, just as he had been, with his feet nearly positioned exactly as they had been. All said, the maneuver cost him half a second from his stance. He would be recovered before Chu-chu would cross his own hole at the pace the clown had been moving.