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Originally Posted by BEAR.
"Good!" Wolfhive purred as Mallowpaw demonstrated the move. "It's a simple move, but can be very effective." A good go-to in a pinch especially. "There's a couple other techniques you can do when your opponent is no longer directly facing you; grabbing their tail and yanking it can knock them off balance or even break the tail if you pull it hard enough, you can put your paw or tail out to trip them up.. Hell, even just slashing at their legs can make moving painful for them." None of this was worth demonstrating, though; just things he wanted Mallowpaw to consider in the future.
"If you're looking to immobilize your opponent.. you can go for breaking their leg. It won't kill them, but it'll put them out of commission for a couple moons." Wolfhive mimicked grabbing a leg and twisting it 'against the grain'. When he was an apprentice, he had a live model - but he got the impression Mallowpaw wouldn't appreciate fighting some random trespasser. So, the point was to give her an idea, even if she never used it - she could if need be. "Go against the momentum and it'll snap, you'll have to put some force into it to do more than a dislocation though. A dislocation would hurt, but might not actually stop them.."
Now onto something a bit more tangible for her. "Some other techniques.." Wolfhive went on to demonstrate things like the front paw blow n rake, playing dead, and scruff shake... but he wanted to move to more of a spar format.
He'd give Mallowpaw a chance to try it all out first, though.
[ @ kittycatburmise i hope this makes sense LOL i lost my train of thought / didn't think it was worth describing the book stuff ]
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Wolfhive praised her attempt before listing the other moves she could use on an enemy if they weren't facing her; yanking their tail, tripping them or slashing their legs. She could see how they would be useful, especially the last two; movement was important in a battle, and once her opponent was down she would be able to pin them and... well, she wasn't sure what she could do to end the fight outside of killing them. Knocking them out, maybe? She didn't know how hard it was to do that.
Wolfhive went on to give her an option for taking out an enemy; breaking their leg. Mallowpaw watched as he demonstrated the motion required, taking note of his comment that she had to be forceful to make sure they couldn't keep fighting. She didn't really want to put a cat in the medicine den for multiple moons, but between that and killing them, she'd choose it any day. It was effective, and if the cat was unable to provide for their clan it wasn't ThunderClan that suffered.
Wolfhive went on to explain other techniques. The front paw blow and rake. Playing dead. Scruff shake. Mallowpaw stored the information in her mind before attempting each move, trying to mimic her mentor's confident motions.