Chapter 120: 120
“It really is much harder there old man. Add to that the ones that would be coming from the borders. It’s all a one big pile of people and zombies getting mixed up together in a meat grinder.” I added.
“Yeah. Good thing your president here is actively fighting them off.” He replied.
“Yeah, but we cannot just trust that they would solve the situation for us. We should do our part as well.” Johnny said.
“I agree.” Matthew added.
The broadcast continued and it panned to the president and a few foreign people.
“Philippines, we now have help from Russia, Japan, USA, Australia and China. We have a few of their people here and a few of their soldiers are helping us reclaiming this country.” The president said.
“Our scientists are slowly researching this thing and given some time, we’ll be able to solve this thing. For the meantime, do what you can to survive and never forget the real enemy is what’s outside not our own people. A couple more of our camps has gone AWOL and I can’t even begin to understand how stupid their decisions were. After I’m done here, you stupid f.u.c.ks are next! I’ll unload a whole magazine in your head and throw you to a meat grinder!” He added.
“Well shit.” Oscar said with amus.e.m.e.nt.
After a few words of encouragement, he ended the broadcast. I turned the TV off and I looked at my group.
“CCW training at the gym to those who wants to train. I’m gonna grab some of our equipment and we’ll meet there in a few minutes.” I said.
Some of their eyes lit up and they got ready while I brought out our equipment outside. The same people from before attended while Rin is now holding a staff instead of a bokuto.
“Alright we’ll do the same exercise as before remember the movements?” I said.
The group nodded and I told them to do ten sets each. When they started, I almost attacked them all since they are just waving them around lifelessly.
“C’mon now, add power! Don’t just follow the direction that I pointed at. That will do nothing.” I explained.
“Hmm? Can you tell us why? It’s still the same movements, right?” Rin asked.
“Well do you plan on hitting them with that strike? It would barely scr.a.p.e their skin. You should practice like it’s real. It’s the same with everything. Take tennis players for example. Some of them would only train a certain muscle group since it is the only thing that they need or keep on repeatedly hitting the balls in the same direction to master it. What we’re doing looks simple but it’s building a foundation for the future.” I said.
“What do you mean?” Kaley asked.
“Techniques. If I feel that you’re ready, I’ll teach you some of them. However, all of you are 10 years too early to learn them. I’ve been practicing since I was a kid.” I said with a grin.
Their eyes lit up when I mentioned techniques.
“Is one of them when you sliced the pineapple?” Russel asked.
“Yeah, something like that. But much better.” I said with a grin.
“Why don’t you teach us now?! I’d like to learn it!” Russel exclaimed.
“Did you even heard what I said earlier? You need to learn the basics first.” I explained.
They are holding different kinds of weapons so I taught them the corresponding movements for each. They are now putting more power from their swings and some of them are accompanying them with shouts.
“HIYA!”
“HAA!”
“BITCH!!!”
“The f.u.c.k was that?! HAHAHAHA!!!” I looked at Russel.
“Hahaha, I got pretty excited.” He said.
“Now, add thrusts from your strikes. Aside from the slicing motion, just push it straight towards to what’s in front of you.” I explained.
I checked their movements and Kaley and Rin was the ones showing promise.
“Guys, you’re just slicing backwards from down to up. What I mean is this…” I said as pointed it straight at a sandbag and thrusted.
*WOOSH*
*THUD*
The sandbag blew back as I struck it squarely.
You could clearly see the small round indent that it made.
“Try what you are doing earlier with this thing and you’ll notice the difference.” I explained.
Some of them did and some strikes would either slide to the side or upwards and you could see the line where it scr.a.p.ed the sandbag.
“See? A thrust is very similar to a straight punch it goes from point A to point B in a straight line. If it is off by a few measurements it is no longer a thrust, it is only a variation from the slashes we’re learning.” I explained.
“It seems like we’re making an asterisk now, right?” Kaley said.
“Yeah, those are the basics. It’s where each strike comes from. North to South, South to North, East to West, West to East and add to that the diagonal strikes from the ‘X’ Pattern and the straight thrust. We have a total of nine places where a blade would come from.” I said.
“And we need to keep on repeating the same movements over and over?” Russel said.
“Yeah, that’s the point of training.” I said.
“How many times?” he asked.
“Everyday? I’d prefer if you repeat each strike a thousand times each day. Not the half-assed one’s you guys are doing at first, but the real strikes with power behind them. If you have free time, you can always practice here. Make it a habit even if I’m not teaching a class to train your own body things that could protect yourself with.” I said.
“A thousand each?! That’s 9000 all in all!” Russel exclaimed.
“That’s entirely up to you if you do it or not. I’m just the teacher. You can choose to follow my lessons to the dot or not. I’m doing my best to teach you what I know. Just remember to not blame me in the future if you’re on death’s door by a simple mistake. I’ve made the same movements and I’m nearing 70 million strikes. Doing that has never failed me except for one.” I said.
“When?” Russel asked.
I just looked at him with a solemn expression. Kaley looked at me and some of the other people who knew.
“Sorry.” Russel said as he continued on.
“Anyway, what made me fail there was not the training. It’s this here. This may sound corny but no amount of training that we do here can help you outside if you’re weak here. Just keep that in mind. Grueling training can help you temper your mind but, in this situation, you can only rely on yourself to train here for the most part. However, you have people around you that could help with that as well. I just dealt with it myself so it’s a bit harder.” I said as I pointed with my thumb on my chest.
*WOOSH*
“BITCH!!!” Russel shouted from behind.
I raised my wooden katana and met it with one hand.
*clack*
“Damn! I thought I would catch you by surprise!” Russel exclaimed.
“Hahaha! That’s not how you make a sneak attack.” I said.
“Well you’re getting emo earlier! I need to liven things up a bit!” he exclaimed as he tried to strike me again.
He raised both of his hands that are holding his wooden sword overhead. He was about to strike down but I thrusted my weapon forward to his chest.
“I’ll just do it at 20%” I said to myself.
“Grck!” he stopped moving immediately as he clutched his chest.
Russel is on the ground rubbing his chest area madly.
“The f.u.c.k bro?!” he exclaimed.
“What? You want to spar this early so taste it! F.u.c.k.i.n.g hurts huh? Don’t attack your teacher out of the blue yeah? I could’ve done something that hurts more but I’ll leave that for later. Anyway, let’s continue the training.” I said.
After a few more minutes of training, Aya went up and told us that it’s time to eat.
We ate a simple meal and everyone slowly quieted down waiting for the meeting.
“Anyway guys, I hate to do this but we’ll do the meeting tomorrow morning. Me and Oscar will do something else today. Just do whatever you want now an-” I said to everyone but Russel cuts me.
“What are you guys doing?” he asked.
“It will be on the meeting tomorrow. Just let us handle it.” Oscar said.
“Oh, okay then. James, Susan’s grandson is been asking me to teach him chess earlier so I’ll do it tonight.” Russel said.
“Forgot this rough guy is a varsity at chess when he’s younger.” I said to myself.
We cleared up while Oscar and I looked at each other.
We each went to our own rooms and Kaley followed me.
“What are you guys doing?” she asked.
“Cleanup.” I said as I opened my armory.
“Whoa! What are you doing? I thought Jay’s group will be doing it every morning?! Wait, is it about the people earlier?!” she exclaimed.
“Yeah.” I replied as I suited up.