kairi sighed walking in to the early morning and empty training room and pulled her hair into a high pony tail and stretched smiling looking around for corenian

"hm.. i guess im a little early" she said and smiled cracking her knuckles and rolling her head and walked up to one of the punching dummies having fun while she punched it repeatedly in spots that if were hit on a normal human would break there bones

she new exactly what a breaking point was for a human seeing as how she had to know what to look for after a battle if she was healing

she was so intense with her little 'in the zone' method she was oblivious to anyone walking in the door

Corenian strode into the training room, still hard at work trying to finish the basic training manual for the library. Entering the room, he was surprised to hear the sounds of figthing and looked up to see Kairi already hard at work.
"Hmmm, her form is alot better than how she had put it. Well, that saves most of the problems, she seems quite good," he muttered to himself as he strolled over to her, calling her name and trying to get her attention.

kairi was oblivious to this but when she head her name she stopped and looked over at corenian and waved smiling at him

"ah hi! i thought i would practice a little before we started" she smiled and whipped some sweat that was dripped on her forehead off on her arm and smiled

"ok sensei im ready to work!" she smiled walking up to him and bowing in respect and looking up at him with an eager to learn look

Corenian scratched his head, wondering where to begin and feeling slighly embarrased at being called Sensei.
"Errrm... well first things first, we have to try and get rid or at least lower that nervousness you seem to have. Since we are hand to hand fighters, we have a disadvantage against most other styles of fighting in terms of range. For example, charging up close toward a person wielding a sword can be VERY nerve-wracking. That's why we train in terms of speed. Which is also why i wear iron weights each twice my leg on each leg." With that said, he pulled up the long pants he wore to reveal two gleaming leg bracers.
"Anyways, lets try to begin by getting rid of that nervousness of yours," he chanted, reciting what his sensei had told him. Reaching into his trenchcoat, he pulled out a wooden stick the length of an average sword. "Now, try and attack me without getting hit, imagine this age old stick that is older than me, is a sword. Don't worry i won't go all out and... the age old try to snatch this coin from my hand martial arts thing is just a myth just so you know."

"i dont think speed is that much of a problem..." kairi said and looked at the stick then at him squinting in thought for a moment

"alright." she said and smiled at him and took off running first towards him then she tumbled to the side leaping up at a suprising speed and touched his soulder with her fist lightly stopping

"i swim with weights on." she said and smiled pointing to her gym bag over to the side that had her swim suit

"i dont really sleep much... so i swim instead" she laughed and pulled her hand away from his shoulder but still seemed rather nervous of just a stick

Corenian laughed heartily to himself, quite impressed by her speed
"ok, ok kudos to you for that, though i can still sense the nervousness, which isn't very good in a battle. Nervousness leads to hesitation, hesitation leads to death, or in this case a slight concussion at the worse."
Tossing the stick down, he pulled out a pair of cotten based anti-impact gloves
"There, that feels better, now lets try again. This time though , the only challenge is that I'm more familiar with my fist than a stick... that's why we learn hand-to-hand combat for right? Even when unarmed we're still armed and thats what i find pretty cool."

"yea i suppose..." she said and looked down at her hands that were on the small side

"not really much of a weapon..." she grumbled and balled them into fists

"its not that im scared of battle its that..." a memory hit her of her old home and she winced like something had hit her

"ok yea im scared of battle" she said and huffed

"but i can take it" she said and put her fists up to block her neck and face

'just imagine him as the training dummy... you can do this you can do this' she told herself taking in a deep breath and with and powerful thrust forward she aimed for his chest

"ok ok..." she said and jabbed at him over and over again relentlessly but everytime he seemed to block and her punches got faster and harder and she felt sweat drip down her forehead and kairi growled before spinning whipping her hari around and trying to kick him in the side

Barely noticing the kick, he flipped back just in time to scrape by the attack before rolling to a halt s slight distance away,"Wow, you really are faster than i thought, well thats quite good, almost caught me off guard. That's the way, feel no fear. If you go up against anyone no matter how strong like most off the others here at the academy, if you don't get nervous, a chance of victory will always be there. Though most of this can be read up in Sun zi's art of war... yea slight lifting on my part but it is quite true. If you don't panic, you will still be able to find a tatic to win... the one who wins is the one using his head," he droned on yet again before getting back into a defensive stance and nodding his head