Oh Yes, We are Gifted.

[NiaZen]

ooc: Gosh, I was just about to reply, and now I have to go....sorry...>.>

[ashiko]

Sparky sighed. He didn't have to do any boxing today! He immediately started in on his warm-ups, a grin spreading across his face. More for relief than anything, though. He was pretty good at push-ups and pull-ups and things. He needed to be for all the flips and things he did. He could get himself a foot in the air from just his arms. So he was pretty good.

(yeah, i know, a bit unrealistic, but hey, he's in the circus, everything's unrealistic there)

[Icefire]

Desra sighed. No boxing yet. She hated it when they had to go through all these things. She would rather just go ahead and box. But anyway, she did her situps and pushups, and went to the bar. She held herself up for 57 seconds, and let go. She could have stayed on longer, but she didnt. She wanted to stay for atleast a minute, but she counted to fast in her head, so it ended up being 57 seconds. She would remind herself to count slower next time. Then, she went into the combinations.

((Haha. That was what I did the other day. We did those flex things, and I counted wrong in my head. I wanted to stay for a minute, but I counted to dern fast... haha, but yeah, I got 57.))

[ashiko]

((Um... don't you mean Desra??? 'Cause isn't Blair in art??? Or am I just mixed up???))

[anarchyheartless]

Mat moved away from everyone else and then she started to do her squats like Ola had commanded. It irked her how everyone was following her example. She hated that sort of attention. Mat was no leader.

She was a loner.

And no one seemed capable of understanding that. Mat sighed as she went to the wall of dumbells and grabbed the ten pound ones and started to do her lifts. She did five of those, put them down, did five squats and then she repeated the process until all three sets were done and then she started to do her combinations. But she also added in shin kicks, push kicks, and elbows.

Kida looked around and saw everyone was almost done and she grinned to herself. She had only just finished her second set of sit ups.

[Icefire]

((Haha, yep, I forgot. I changed it.))

Desra looked around. "Oops..." she murmured to herself. She had forgotten to do the squats and lifts. She walked over to where Mat was, and started the lifts. After she finished, she went on to he squats, and then continued to do her combinations. She threw a butterfly kick into one, but missed the bag and went flying though the air. Although the name says butterfly kick, as she flew helplessly through the air she looked nothing like a butterfly. After a few horrifying seconds, she hit the wall with a loud thud and fell to the floor. She hurt, but she didnt think she had broken anything. She would have turned into a cat to help, but she couldnt remember whether the coach had said no powers or not. With this coach, already on his bad side, she didnt want to take any chances. Especially with what had just happened. She looked around nervously, hoping the coach hadnt noticed. She knew it was a hope in vain, but she still hoped.

[anarchyheartless]

Ola turned and glared at Desra for a long moment before he strode over to her and held out a gloved hand, "I said simple combinations for a reason. We aren't going to be doing kicks for weeks." He said in a dull, accent filled voice.

Tiphanie almost snorted at her sad butterfly kick. They were hard to do, but how could you miss the punching bag? She sighed and continued in her warm up.

Mat sat down next to the ring and waited for Ola to continue the lesson, although she knew what came next.

Kida sauntered over to the bar finally to wait her turn.

[idyllian]

What the hell? Apollo stared off at Desra for a few moments before returning to the routine finishing up and glancing down at the watch. His heart rate had gone up for obvious reasons but he hated it when it got closer to 200. It was now 154. 46 more and this gym would be...

No.

He rubbed his face a little walking over to sit down on the mat away on the oposite side of the ring avoiding everyone focousing at a spot on the floor attempting to regulate his breathing and drive his pulse down. It needed to be lower. The closer he got to 200 the more likely... it would come out. Anything could antagonize him, a teacher yelling, a simple brush in the hall, or the worst...a punch to the face.

[ashiko]

Sparky, done with his combinations, headed over towards where Desra was and started some quick lifts. "You alright? That kick of yours looked like it hurt..." He set the dumbells down. "By the way, I'm done, are you? I think we have to box now, and I really don't want to."

[Icefire]

"Ugh, yeah, that was my last." Desra said to Sparky. "Umm... sorry about that." she said nervously to Ola. "I take karate, and thought I could handle it. I just havent practiced in a long time." she stood up. Then she turned back to Sparky. "You dont like boxing? I do." then she remembered. "Oh, I forgot! You get future flashes. Sorry. Maybe they wont make you do it." she said that, forgetting that Ola was standing right there. Or was he? When she realized it she was to nervous to check. She was very suprised when she didnt get fussed out, but she didnt want to risk it.

((By the way, just to make it known, the reason she missed was because it was a running butterfly kick, and had a lot of momentum. She kind of brushed the bag when she did it, making her almost do a flip through the air. I forgot to put that in my other post. ^^))

[anarchyheartless]

"Spread. Out." Olakunde barked to Desra from two feet away. Never in his years had a student been that--just well stupid! She has had multiple warnings on being quiet, but she just keeps going on! "Three laps around the entire gym. After every lap that's twenty push ups." Olay growled, pointing to the closest wall.

He put his hands behind him and looked about the class. Everyone but the extremely slow Khetela was done, so he decided to move on, "I'm an sure I am correct in assuming that everyone here knows how to stretch." He began, "Arms, shins, shoulders, hamstrings, lattisimus dorsi." He said, demonstrating each stretch. For the arms he pulled one arm across his torso and held it to his chest with the other hand and then switched. For his legs he bent double and reached for the floor. His entire palm rested on the floor for a few seconds before he stood. He then picked up his foot with only the back of his ankle on the floor and he stretched for his toe. Then he stood straight and raised one hand in the air and leaned to the side, stretching out his lattisimus dorsi (ribs), he did the other side and then looked around, seeing who had caught up. And while he looked around he raised and lowered his shoulders to get them worked out.

Mat was already done with her stretches and she was adding some of her own again, sitting on the floor she reached for her feet. She stood and then waited for him to continue, although she wouldn't like the rest of the class. Ola had everyone go into pairs. It was much easier to look after everyone that way.

Kida skipped over to the dumbbells and picked five pounds and did her lifts and squats quickly and did her stretches at a normal speed.

[ashiko]

Sparky stood there doing his stretches. He did these every morning when he got up, and every night before he went to bed. So he was used to them. When he was done, he stood there, watching everyone else, but listening attentively for Ola's voice so he wouldn't miss anything or get in trouble again.

[Icefire]

Desra grimaced. She had forgotten all about the no talking rule. At her old school, she was used to being able to talk in gym all the time. The coaches never told her to be quiet. She turned around, to ask Ola a question. "Umm... I kinda forgot, did you say we couldnt use our powers?" she asked. Or atleast, she was about to ask. Then he started to the demonstrations, so she decided not to interupt him. It would probably make things worse. So she just decided to run her laps the old fasion way. Although, she still got it done pretty fast, and joined the others doing their stretches. She ached a little from the pushups, but she was fine. She would have liked to tell the coach that it would have been a better idea to stretch and then do the combinations and pull-ups and everything, in case somebody pulled something doing it, but she knew that at the point she was, it would be suicide to do it. So she decided not to. She normally wasnt so stupid, but she was tired, and a bit excited. She wasnt having a good start to the day.

[anarchyheartless]

((actually it is better to warm up and then stretch. Because if you stretch without warming up your muscles there is a greater chance of getting hurt.))

[Icefire]

((Im confused... but then, Desra can be wrong. ^^ At gym at my school, we kinda warm up and stretch at teh same time. So I get confused... But anyway, thats just Desra's opinion. Like for example Blair doesnt even see the use in stretching. Shes kinda an idiot... haha.))