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 Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:30 am
At some point during these latest attacks I had stopped moving so much and was just protecting myself, making sure that none of my most vital points got hit.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:30 am
Again I found my self striking out again using techniques that were commonly used with the Zanpakuto in order to block various hand to hand attacks. I found that they were coming faster now, and that I was having to speed up myself in order to keep up with the vicious attacks that were coming constantly now.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:34 am
I finally got hit square in the chest which sent me flying. I had been caught unaware as I was focusing on his hands. I hadn't noticed his foot come up and strike me dead centre in the chest.
"You have a long way to go yet," The totem spoke solemly, "The golem's power increases every so often, remember that." I slashed up to the side to cast off a reverse heel kick. He was right, this thing was getting stronger never mind faster, and some of my blocks were starting to weaken under the pressure I had to start strengthening myself and speeding myself up.
"Hai!" I exclaimed as my fist arm went up blocking a blow from the side.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:35 am
I let go of my body and let my hands move as if water so that I could block faster, it was no use being tense, and I was finding that every so often my body would tense up and I'd have to conciously let go once more. There'd be a time or two that i'd have to tense up in order to block some attack or other, but i'd forget to let go.
THough moving fluidly did help, and I decided to do it more often, since the more fluid I could move the easier it would be to guard and evade.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:36 am
"You won't defeat me," I said swiping at it again. This Golem was having none of that again as it swung it's huge fist towards my face. i grabbed it in my hand. A direct block, and pushed it back. It spun around on it's heel and swung it's leg into mine. I dropped and intercepted the strike with my knee.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:37 am
I jumped back before he got me the second time with a downward strike and I punched hard and fast into its stomach. Yet it blocked and then went straight for me sending a fist into my chest and sending me backwards putting me back in my place. I took that though as a cue to take a break and did so, thus I drank from the fountain and ate a little more food before resting my body.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:39 am
The following morning and I was being beaten by the monster again. Well...at least if it wasn't for dreaming about guarding myself being a sleep walker. The golem would have made contact, had my hand not moved up just in the nick of time to block the punch. Thankfully the golem wasn't as strong as me, but it was to a degree, faster.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:40 am
I was starting to develop a method of defending that didn't insist that bore the brunt of the attack, although it was actually quite old and I used it during my kenjutsu training when I was still alive. I was starting to parry the attacks using a sort of slap, which was using the Kosshijutsu I knew in order to affect the nerve and muscle structure to push the incoming thing out of the way.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:47 am
Implementing the slap technique some more I started to use it with my feet. I had taken to not wearing very much now, because my clothes were just shredding under the training now, and I was quite sure that it wasn't going to get any easier at all. I slapped away an incoming punch, and then slapped a round house kick above me with my foot.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:55 am
The golem brought it's knee up between my legs. I had to move and fast to avoid this blow. Yet i didn't instead I drove my elbow down in order to stop the blow coming up towards me. This Golem was faster than me so I knew that trying to escapefrom it would be useless at the moment.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:56 am
It changed direction jumped back slightly and swept low causing me to jump up out of it's path, however, it seemed to have other minds and swept around bringing a horizontal kick to my chest. Damned thing. There was little I could do, yet I drove my leg down, just above the golem's kick into it' lower knee. Almost an intercepting strike. If only I had managed to get more momentum out of it.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:57 am
The golem didn't stop there though and soon I was exchanging kicks in order to stop it getting the advantage with the legs. Now I just had to contend with the super fast arms and hands. This was such a different experience defending against something that I was far used to attacking.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:07 am
It suddenly slammed it's fist towards my shouler. I feinted to the right, narrowly avoiding the blow, but it was faster and with it's left knee brought up a blow to my side. I drove my arm down quickly as I was thrown to the otherside of the room, thankfully I had gotten my arm down in time, or I would have been crushed.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:08 am
It was far faster than I had actually anticipated especially since it kept getting faster and faster and before I knew it it was driving a reverse heel somersault onto my head. I raised my hands in order to block it. The golem made contact and it was strong too, so much so that I was almost struggling to hold it. However I held it enough that it flipped back and ran at me.
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:09 am
I barely had time to stand up before I was blocking another kick from my side with my arm. It was intelligent...it was trying to break me and get an advantage by forcing me to where it wanted me to go. As it swung it's fist to my face again I deflected it with a palm strike and ducked under the next blow from the other fist.
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