[Tai] Leg Weights for Musashi
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Leg Weights provide a mechanical benefit in the form of an increase in speed once the corresponding Leg Weights Drop technique is used.
Their inspiration likely comes from Dragon Ball, where Goku wore weighted clothing to train his body for the Martial Arts Tournament to fight Tien. In Naruto, we first see them used in the Chunin Exam by Rock Lee, who removed them during his fight with Gaara. They're large weights, worn around the shins, that are usually made extremely heavy by the use of Fuuinjutsu. The idea is to wear heavy weights until you can move normally with them on, and then remove them for a speed boost.
Great, now if you don’t mind, we’ll be moving into a little roleplay aspect of the training haha. Anyways, let’s begin.
As Mirabelle arrived into the training grounds once again, she approached the fellow swordswoman before her with a prideful smile. “Lovely form and posture. You’re a natural I’ll give you that!” patting her on the shoulder. Mirabelle would have then taken a scroll from her tool pouch and with a single hand seal, out came a pair of leg weights. “Alright, I’ll be attaching these to your legs. Once you do, they’ll automatically become heavy, though the unique script on them will continue to increase more and more as you naturally become accustomed to them. So you’ll need to continue training with them for a month, which once you do, return back to me and we’ll take them off and see the results of your training” she instructed to Musashi. Once she attached them, she would have given her some space to get a couple of swings in. “Now then, do one of your usual routines for training, be it jumping jacks, running or anything really. Now is the time to start getting use to them, or better yet…” she took a light combat posture.
“Or would you like to practice with them against me. The choice is yours, Ronin-chan” she said smiling intently.
( Katai Omori ) - Leg Weights
As Mirabelle arrived into the training grounds once again, she approached the fellow swordswoman before her with a prideful smile. “Lovely form and posture. You’re a natural I’ll give you that!” patting her on the shoulder. Mirabelle would have then taken a scroll from her tool pouch and with a single hand seal, out came a pair of leg weights. “Alright, I’ll be attaching these to your legs. Once you do, they’ll automatically become heavy, though the unique script on them will continue to increase more and more as you naturally become accustomed to them. So you’ll need to continue training with them for a month, which once you do, return back to me and we’ll take them off and see the results of your training” she instructed to Musashi. Once she attached them, she would have given her some space to get a couple of swings in. “Now then, do one of your usual routines for training, be it jumping jacks, running or anything really. Now is the time to start getting use to them, or better yet…” she took a light combat posture.
“Or would you like to practice with them against me. The choice is yours, Ronin-chan” she said smiling intently.
( Katai Omori ) - Leg Weights
Type: Weapon/Supplementary
Rank: A
Range: Short
Chakra: 30
Damage: N/A (+20 to Kicks, 2x Running Speed)
Description: The Leg Weights used for Special Taijutsu Training with Added Weights are made through the application of a sealing formula to ordinary leg weights. The sealing formula is used to, through the use of chakra, increase the weight of the leg weights to the desired level. The seal can't be applied to anything other than the leg weights and its use is restricted to its original purpose. One can remove the leg weights but the sealing technique in them stays active indefinitely and can't be released. Additionally, the Leg Weights and their unique seal calibration makes them only usable by the ninja to whom they belong. They can't be sealed or stolen.
Rank: A
Range: Short
Chakra: 30
Damage: N/A (+20 to Kicks, 2x Running Speed)
Description: The Leg Weights used for Special Taijutsu Training with Added Weights are made through the application of a sealing formula to ordinary leg weights. The sealing formula is used to, through the use of chakra, increase the weight of the leg weights to the desired level. The seal can't be applied to anything other than the leg weights and its use is restricted to its original purpose. One can remove the leg weights but the sealing technique in them stays active indefinitely and can't be released. Additionally, the Leg Weights and their unique seal calibration makes them only usable by the ninja to whom they belong. They can't be sealed or stolen.
"Gah, what're these things made of?!" exclaimed Musashi as she felt like she was wearing lead shoes. "Its like trying to spring through a river with a potato sack tied around your ankles!"
Musashi looked at the other swordswoman, and contemplated her offer. In swordsmanship, one's footwork was often more important than their arm skill, as many people underestimated just how much power came from her lower body. Opening her traveling case to recover a pair of shinai, she tossed one up to the other swordswoman.
"I'm always up for a challenge!" exclaimed the flower of heaven, knowing that progress only came from resistance.
Seeing Musashi reach for her carrying case, Mirabelle’s head tilted for a moment; as the shinai is tossed towards. Normally, weapons like this wasn’t on her mind due to her body acting like a literal sword for her in the case of Kyotoryu. At that moment, she always kept Journey active, but in respect to her student’s wishes, she nodded and turned it off allowing her to grab the shinai with her right hand. “Haha, man this takes me back to my youth…it’s been awhile since I trained with one of these” she admitted, weighing the sword in order to allow her muscle memory to readapt to the item. Once she did, she took a moment to breath in and out, quickly distributing her weight evenly towards her feet, as she placed her right foot forward, left foot back with a firm placement on the surface of the ground. Her shinai was perpendicular to her central body, with it fully extended, with her right hand griped at the top and her left at the bottom. “Chudan no Kamae” she announced, as she quickly moved forward, raising her blade above her head, and attempt to strike Musashi at the top of her head with a descending vertical strike. “Kai!” she shouted as she attempted to strike.
If her attempt to strike was a success, even if blocked directly, she would have stepped back as she attempted to swing in horizontal strike, attempting to strike her hand attempting to disarm her. The sheer pain of the strike would have allowed her to resonate the pain in Musashi’s hand, which would have forced her to release her grip of the shinai. Once she finished, she would have reattained her previous stance. “Now then, what will you do first…” she questioned Musahsi mentally, analyzing her movement and posture, wondering how she would have reacted to this.
Musashi would mimic the chudan stance of her trainer, watching as they lifted their bamboo shinai to strike; Musashi, however being in the same stance and knowing that in Kendo, and even in real combat, its the first strike that's the most important, simply thrust her sword forward, giving the blow blinding speed since Mirabelle stepped forward toward's Musashi's own blade.
"Tsuki!" came Musashi's cry, as the shinai aimed for Mirabelle's throat.
***
The sparring would go on for some time, until Musashi adjusted to the force of the weights on her leg.