l'inverno è noioso
06-14-2015, 01:30 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2015, 03:48 AM by Motif I.)
The pregnant woman laughed easily as she watched him flap about freely in the way we, his paws slapping the surface with each stroke. Somehow, impossibly, he made even swimming seem awkward. She would swim beside him for a moment before she stopped. "Little star? I want you to try something, it takes a little more effort but I want you to swim without bringing your paws above the water, like this" she said and demonstrated a smooth dog paddle, her kicks making only ripples on the surface edge. She didn't expect to turn the awkward boy into a fluid dancer in the matter of hours, but it would be good to find an approach that would work for him. Clearly any way she had learned wouldn't be the same to what she needed to teach him - but that was to be expected, everyone was different and we'll the first order of business was muscle memory her approach was different to her own learning, she hadn't used swimming. She had him swim a couple more laps to see if this new way worked before she exited the water. She shivered a little but the air wasn't unbearable, the steam and closed off cave kept the air warm enough. "Come here star" she called and waited for him to join her. Once he had done so she would speak again"now try the fighting stance i was showing you earlier" again she would wait and moment and then she would mark places places in the earth, one close to is paws either inwards or outwards depending on where she judged he should be standing send then more lines a little further out. "Now i want you to place your legs on top of the lines closest to each foot. Then for you to move your right leg out onto the further one and then back into the smaller, then the same for your left, do you understand?" She asked, and then she would properly explain herself because likely he was confused about everything, the swimming and the foot work "What I'm teaching right now is your body, not your mind. With healing you need to think but with fighting you need to act. This is called 'muscle memory' and i am training your mind into a new position so it will become natural, it's how you should stand when you are fighting. The swimming is to loosen you up and make you more fluid. For this to work we have to practice both every single day until it's natural, you won't always need me to learn this so feel free to do it in your spare time too, okay?" it was was a lengthy explanation but perhaps understanding would help him. |
