Chapter 03-Page 23-Everything Zen
Aug05
on August 5, 2016
at 12:02 am
Chapter: Chapter 3 - The Price Of Dreams
Characters: Krystin Moline, Rampage
Location: Angel Dome arena
So is this the new improved Krystin? If so, Rampage has a great way to welcome her into the ring.
Krystin’s been training hard, including adding Aikido to her regimen. You think the extra training will pay off?
Sabrina vs Krystin
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Hmm. Rampage looks to be fighting like a rhino. If Krystin picked up enough aikido for proficiency in a few techniques, it will serve her well. If not, she’s going to waste a lot of effort trying to gracelessly haul a much larger woman into position.
I’ll be interested to see how she holds up. She took a solid shot, helping Brooke, but that wasn’t a ton of action and she had a rather long match before this one to recover.
In addition to the practical self-defense techniques picked up by Krystin, she also is taking Aikido for spiritual reason, if you will, and she hopes that will help her in the ring too.
Taking up a training program intended to improve your discipline, focus, and calm is great! Taking up a training program hoping that it will improve your discipline, focus, and calm in order to see discernible improvement in your next big match is… “wildly optimistic,” to be charitable. In the long run, sure, it could help, but right now, what she most needs is the techniques that allow her to manipulate a larger, charging opponent with minimal effort.
Well with enough correct moves she can win but judging from her expression she isn’t into the fight.
She’s trying to maintain her calm, but it’s challenged in the last panel.
Aikido’s the perfect counter for a style like Rampage. That gal is all about momentum, and Aikido is all about using your opponent’s momentum against them and beating them with it. Trouble is, does Krystin have the energy to use it? Plus, I doubt any of her training partners were the size of Rampage. It can be hard to toss around that much weight if you’re not used to it.
That’s true. There’s a bear of a guy who practices at the dojo I’m at. 6′ 4 and 225. Rampage looks pretty close to that. I can put him down if he gets pushy. But it took a while to work that out. Good luck, Krystin.
It’s your lower center of gravity, sis. Works in we women’s favor against a taller guy. 🙂
On paper, everything you say makes perfect sense. We’ll have to see how that translates when applied real world.
Tosses can get blocked, and then you’re often in trouble.
Struggle, struggle, toil and trouble
Fire burn, cauldron bubble
Time to put some english in those big hips of yours, Krystin!
You’re not going to win a test of strength.
Lovely page, boss. Very dynamic! I love the expressions, especially on the last panel. Say’s it all!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the update. 🙂
And great advice for our Definition of Technician. Let’s see if she heeds it.
I’m guessing we missed the first Hip Toss, because that first move was an Arm Drag. I hated learning the arm drag. It’s seriously about timing. You have to nail the timing or look stupid when they end up landing on you.
Throwing a hip toss, drag, hip toss is like Krystin taking Rampage back to Wrestling 101 with universal moves.
Def Tech is such a show off. 🙂
Back to fundamentals. Well she should be solid there. Rampage might not be since she could rely on her size and strength to brawl and bully.
I wrote it that the first move should be a hip toss, but somehow I gravitated towards the arm drag take down. Actually, if you can actually remember this in about a month, I’m pretty sure why it was on my brain.
But I like you explanation best!
Bossman, you captured the arm drag perfectly. And it’s really gone out of favor lately. I’m kinda’ glad. I truly hated it as part of the universal move set. But, as a tech wrestler I can see Krystin favoring it because you really are using their momentum to carry them over.
Thanks! As often as we’ve seen it over the last few decades, it appears that I’ve rarely drawn it, so it was a nice change.
What? Are you saying I’m hippy Well don’t bogart that joint. Keep on Trucking! Peace!
It’s hookas and e-cigarettes now. 😛
I think krystin is falling into the trap of where you learn something new so you start spamming it as much as you can and forget to use what you knew before then and the results end up being worse than they were before.
expecting a Belles intervention before this match ends FYI.
Hopefully, she got all that spamming out in practice, but it’s easy to go to the well. Let’s see what happens now that she’s hit an obstacle.
And those tricky Belles are never too far.
You do what you’ve been practicing. I assume that Krystin is experienced enough to know that she needs to go back and practice her existing techniques between her aikido lesson and her match, and I’m seeing a lot of wrestling basics here, so the specific problem of Krystin trying her limited selection of new aikido moves too often shouldn’t come up.
She’s got plenty of problems in the form of Rampage, and she even started at less than 100%…
Good job on Kristin’s part utilizing that Akido. Though I’d have gone for a side Russian leg sweep or a leg hook take down instead of a hip toss. Hip tossing requires allot of energy to heave you’re opponent, and that’s energy Kristin doesn’t have.
On a side note I’d be freaked if Rampage blew into my ear too.
Is she really, though? That we can see? I mean, yeah, the hip throw is included in aikido, but Krystin is a technical wrestler. The odds of her learning the koshinage for the first time just now are pretty slim. Everybody teaches that. Chances are good Sabrina, Sun, and Brooke also know that one. And then Krystin duffed it, because she didn’t get the positioning even remotely right. Embarrassing.
I’m only really seeing the results of her training in that she can stay in close, avoid Rampage’s attack at the last second, and try a counter. Which is nice, if you can choose and execute the counters well. If not, you’re probably better off just meeting force with force. Unless something clicks soon, right now she appears to be at the point where she sacrificed the proficiency she had in order to be a novice at something new. Very, very dangerous point in her training. Very, very dangerous opponent to be facing at that point in her training…
The next to last panel could be a Russian leg sweep in progress.
That would be a good counter move, Bren. You’re right. Because then Rampage can just roll right over Krystin and use her weight.