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Post by Midnight on Sept 5, 2009 0:14:55 GMT -5
"I see. Heh, and I don't blame you there, its a long drive. Even if you fly its a bit annoying, all though more efficient. Hm...On second thought, I'm going to change the destination. I'd like to work on Parkour before I go home for the evening." she said, turning at a street that took them to one of the parks on the outskirts of Downtown tranquility. "If you want to leave from there I won't stop you."
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Post by Silencer on Sept 5, 2009 0:32:01 GMT -5
When she mentioned that she was changing their destination, Silencer wasn't really disturbed. He didn't really care. What did catch his attention was what Cira said next. What is 'Parkour'? Although he had already asked, he started to search the internet for it, to see which one was faster, this human, or humankind's computer network. He had located a few video clips, and a web page or two that were loading into his processor pretty slowly. The fact that his internal information processors were more highly advanced than those of the humans, it didn't really speed up the process too much.
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Post by Midnight on Sept 5, 2009 1:20:55 GMT -5
"Basically, it's the practice of moving over obstacles in the most efficient, quickest way possible. It is not a martial arts. It's like...a sport. A style of running. One that I'm very fond of." Cira explained as she drove, now towards the park. She relaxed in the seat a little more, still enjoying the fact that she had a chance to drive one of her favorite cars.
A few intersections away, they'd be close to it. "I don't know if you Autobots practice anything like that. It can easily be incorporating into fighting but even though I'm also a martial artist, I only do it for fun." she said.
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Post by Silencer on Sept 5, 2009 1:32:12 GMT -5
That sounds like it would be useful, particularly in a nice gun fight. It could assist one in ducking around and behind cover, dodging bullets that would have hit if one hadn't been adept at reaching locations quickly. Silencer had never practiced it, never realized how useful that one adjustment to his technique could or could not be useful. I'll have to try to incorporate that into my fighting style some time.
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Post by Midnight on Sept 5, 2009 2:03:59 GMT -5
"Might be a good idea." Cira said with a grin as she cleared another intersection and took a right at the next street. They then rolled down another main street towards the park.
"It's also a type of free running, which is in a way the same thing, only more geared for running, and not stopping, I guess you could say." Cira added, shrugging a little. "All in all, some of the moves remind me of outdoor gymnastics." she said as she slowed down and peeled off to park.
The park had a fairly wide track with some vaults, which Cira could easily jump over, but right around the parking lot there was already enough to work with. She parked close to some of the bike slots. Off to the left was a thin tree which split in several different ways with various low branches. Cira was already eying it. As she eyed the tree, Cira wondered if Silencer had a holo-form. If it was decent enough like most of the Autobot's holo forms were, he could actually practice with her if he was so inclined.
While thinking about all this, Cira put Silencer in park. Several people on the track were already eying the cherry red Countach. Cira had a hard time keeping a mellow, calm bearing and not bear a goofy smile. Course, what she was about to do wasn't going to help either.
"I'll show you a very simple move which we do called a dash vault There are TONS of different vaults. Gotta back up a bit here." she said. Leaving her backpack in his form, Cira gently shut the door and then jogged several yards to the back of Silencer.
She aimed for the very front of his form. Silencers height was considerably shorter then other sports cars, so all she had to do was worry about clearing the distance. One could easily vault over a vehicle from either side, but from front to back was significantly longer.
Cira ran at full speed straight onto Silencer's spoiler, tailing a drastic leap from her toes over him, clearing it by less than a foot. Her speed was efficient enough that her initial point of contact lay almost in the dead center of Silencer's roof. Her hands extended as as she leapt, both her hands tapped the center of his roof in a matter of seconds from when she took the jump, and quite abruptly and swiftly, her knees tucked up to her chest to clear the roof as she pushed herself over head. As she began to push out behind her to move forward, her feet kicked out, almost already covering the length of his windshield and somewhat short hood.
Her calves cleared the low hood by a little more than 6inches, clearing the cement block used for parking. Her feet hit the ground and she recollected her upper body like a slinky, shifting her weight forward into a roll on the side walk. She rolled twice before she sprang up and spun around doing a single handed cartwheel, turning around to face Silencer again. Her feet hit the ground with a light thump on the cement a second time when she completed the funky cartwheel.
"Yeah, kinda like gymnastics," Cira admitted, her voice low. Some people passed some second glances at her as she vaulted over, though she didn't really care if they thought she was talking to a car or not...
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Post by Silencer on Sept 8, 2009 21:57:55 GMT -5
Silencer just sat there, partly because of the fact he looked like a car. He was toying with the programs he had for a holoform, but he hadn't really used them before, so it was taking him a while to figure out how to manipulate it. But his sensory equipment suddenly picked up Cira running towards him. What was she... Slag!
She cleared the jump. That really could be useful. He had finally figured out how to manipulate the holomatter avatar so it at least moved like a human, and looked like one. Of course, that didn't make up for the fact that he needed practice with it. Silencer slowly directed the holoform out of his vehicle form, and with little difficulty got it to walk a few steps in one direction and turn around. More complex manuevers would be much more difficult. Just to let ya' know, this is my first time using a holoform.
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Post by Midnight on Sept 9, 2009 0:10:51 GMT -5
"Oh...that's okay." Cira said with a smile. She went over to the bike rack and vaulted over the first bike holder. She turned around and did a flip with one hand over the other, before stopping short and sliding between the holder and vaulting from behind herself back over it. People who walked by looked at her with a confused expression on their faces.
Cira ran to a low hanging oak tree near them on the opposite end of the side walk and did a flip off the trunk, then turned to face Silencer. "If you want to practice, I'd recommend starting out with basic jumps and vaults. The vault I did over your form is one of the basic vaults. With enough practice you can cover great distances with it."
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