6th-Fall-511 AV
It was another day. Another day Keido needed to get familiar with his weapons. But after yesterday he knew that the spear was too heavy for him to wield for too long. No, he needed to practice it more and more until he can attack effectively with it. So the plan today was to bring his spear, his net and a few weights he could wrap. Why the weights? He will be experiencing it soon enough.
He started with a warm-up. To continue thrusting the spear he needed to get his arms used to moving front and back. Even if he was no stranger to the moves which he used for his punches, the weight of the spear threw them off. Keido got on the ground with his arms at the front and his chest between then. He kicked his feet which were behind to be sure that he would not slip. Then he brought his chest down while he bend his arms outwards, keeping his body as stiff as possible to do some push-ups.
His breathing was the key to keeping this up for as long as he needed, everytime he went up, he inhaled. And when he went down, he exhaled. A dozen repetitions, his palms started to sweat. Another dozes, they started to slip. And at around thirty on his way down, his hands flew up from the accumulated sweat and he fell on his chin.
The pain made him decide that he had enough and was prepared to continue further. Keido needed to calm down after the fall. He rolled in place until he was facing up. Then he folded his knees. Crossing his arms over his chest so that they will not interfere, he started putting pressure on his feet. Pushing downwards, they traveled along the legs up the hips where he made it stay. Then he bend his hips, pushing his body upwards for some sit ups.
Like the push ups, Keido kept his breathing in line with his movements. Everytime his body went up, he inhaled. Everytime it dropped down, he exhaled. His hips were starting to feel the strain of his body weight and he started to feel tired after a while. Instead of his hands, it was his legs slipping now as they lost energy. They started to drag themselves further and further while they straightened up everytime he completed a repetition. Until right before Keido could feel that his knees could no longer keep his legs up. It was his final time going up. Inhaling, he got up and stayed in place.
The physical preparations were complete. And now it was time to sharpen his mind for the training ahead. All this while he continued his breathing on the rhythm as he warmed up and took a proper seat on the ground. With all the strain and the pain he was now experiencing, he had to really pay attention to the breath which moved past his lips just to retain control.
Lucky the spot he chose for today was quiet so Keido can really focus on this. He started to think what he needed to do today. He was going to try and use his spear. He shut his eyes to envision it. Each breath he took saw him stabbing his spear. Then he started to take deeper breaths. The spear started going further. Until his lungs could not hold it anymore. That was as far as the spear would take him he knew.
That satisfied Keido. But he needed to go further. Now in his mind, he saw a net in front of him replacing the spear. It was the same. Today he wanted to try something new. He saw the woman disarm him last time so why couldn't he do the same? But the excitement was far too much for him to maintain this mental images for long. He saw the net going forward and back, forward and back trying to get whatever he aimed at. His breaths started to get erratic. The net began to become wavy and was thrown at irregular intervals. Finally it faded. His concentration was broken.
But now Keido had a rough idea of what he had to do. He picked up his spear. He will begin with this one since it worked so much better in his mind. The weights had their role to play here and Keido took them up. Wrapping it around the shaft as close to the point as possible.