You're Gonna go Far, Kid

Esti would look over Ashmedai for a long moment, taking in all the little things in his defenses that could be wrong. She had seen worse, she had decided. Shrugging she walked over to the boy, "Alright, that's good enough. Try to remember to work your way down your body, starting from you head." She shook herself, then got ready to demonstrate, "Try three or whatever many things at a time. Like this, with my face, I'll narrow my eyes, scrunch my face, and lift my lips. This helps to deflect attacks from your eyes and covers the bridge of your maw." Esti acted out the motion, holding it for a second, then releasing it, "You can also tuck your ears at this point, but I usually do that while tucking my chin to cover my neck. You have to roll your shoulders too, to keep your neck guarded. If someone gets your neck, you're dead- don't stop fighting, but you're dead." Esti cleared her throat then turned so Ashmedai could see her body lengthwise rather than just her front, "Now, widen your legs, bend your knees, make sure your weight's all even, and dig your claws into the ground. This will make you fast and more able to move with your opponent's attacks." Esti demonstrated, jumping to her left, then to her right, showing the springiness in her legs, "Last thing, I make sure my whole back becomes a solid line from my head to my tail, then I raise my hackles along this line and wherever else to help balance myself and protect my main body. You're a boy, so you might want to drop your tail sometimes to protect your family maker." She smiled a kind of nasty smile thinking about Soliloquy.

"Alright! Since you have your defenses set, I'll set mine, then I want you to come at me like you were going to attack me." Esti set her own defenses, "Alright. Come at me!"