1 Point | Video; UN: Strike1st | CW Language

[strikefirster]

[The feed opens up to a crooked shot of a building that screams abandoned warehouse vibes. Out of frame is a man in a black karate gi standing next to a grandfather clock with the words "Professor Dongspin" written on it in green paint.]

Now I just got here but I've been seen a lot of talk about free fighting lessons. But we all know that in life you get what you pay for.

You want to really kick the competition? Then you need to get your ass down to Cobra Kai.

Screw that weird ass fairy tale bullshit. Learn from someone who drinks raw eggs, not pansy ass hot chocolate.

You'll learn bone crunching, face smashing, all American Karate. For the reasonable price of your blood, sweat and tears.

We're not going to be doing any self-defense, It's time to learn self-offense.

Don't be a pussy. Join Cobra Kai and let me teach you the way of the fist.

[And then leaps into the air and delivers a spinning kick into the grandfather clock which collapses and smashes against the ground.

The feed cuts out shortly after.]

Comments

[strikefirster]

Because I'm not a cheap pussy? Says a lot about this place.

Yeah. And I'll rise up and beat the shit out of that person eventually. Or I'll train a student to do it.

Sounds like a fun time.

[opress]

Because you don't know when to keep your mouth shut. You have no restraint.

I suppose you have opportunity to try, try again since death doesn't appear permanent here.

[strikefirster]

That's because restraint is for pussies.

But... I mean I guess not always. One of my students was trying to teach that me that.

I probably will at some point. Just need to find a way around all his cheap bullshit if he tries it again.

[opress]

Restraint is for those that have learned to survive.

Cheap bullshit? He can kill you any number of ways.

[strikefirster]

Offense will always be more badass.

He could have and he chose the most cowardly way to do it. Choked me out with his magic powers. Couldn't even get his hands dirty.

[opress]

Badass, yes, but also stupid if you can't keep yourself from dying all the time.

He could have dropped a building on you, dismembered you, tore your heart out or crushed it. So asphyxiation is a cowardly death? How did you survive to adulthood on your world?

[strikefirster]

I won't. Any time someone pulls a move like that on me I'm going to learn how to strike before they can do it again.

[Johnny actually had some strangulation related trauma but that was beside the point.]

He could have done it with his own two hands and not some magic power. That's what made it cowardly.

[opress]

You’re going to learn, are you? I suppose Trench provides you with the opportunity, but you’ll be dying or extremely injured a lot.

[He almost felt bad for Johnny. Here was some adult human acting like a kit who hadn’t received the right kind of tutelage and now just shot off at the mouth for any kind of attention.]

So blaster fire, thrown knives, shooting down your ship or any hands-off death is cowardly?

[strikefirster]

Yeah. I catch on pretty quick. Apparently not fast enough for this place but that apparently doesn't matter too much.

[That was about sixty percent of Johnny problems. He just let them stew for about thirty years before trying to do something about it.]

I'll let throwing knives and blaster fire count as long as it comes from the front and not some sort of sneaky shit.

A real test of skills is when two men face off at their best. That's how real men should settle their differences.

[opress]

You have a number of opportunities, as long as the traumas of death don't catch up to you.

[He wasn't so certain he believed much in the intelligence or sanity of anyone that rushed into death without any apparent need for survival. To fight in war was different from what seemed to have happened here anyway.]

So death by friendly fire is cowardly.

[He actually laughed. By the Fanged God's balls, this human was something else.]

What would you know about what it is to be a 'real' man? What is a 'real' man in human society?