[Asharr Gnar'rhou]

After the short break and explanation from Shik'ka, he decided to teach Asharr about kicking and kneeing. Upper combat was always a good thing to learn first, because the legs part was a bit trickier, but when combined they were harmony that was a force to be reckoned with.

Shik'ka backed up and quickly shot a knee up in the air for Asharr to witness. "Your knee is one of the strongest parts of your body. If you can manage to wrap your arms around the back of an opponent's neck and pull then down, you can then drive your knee into their solarplex or abdomen which will end the fight pretty quick. Even a good knee to the face will be the last strike you'll have to make for that fight. Come here and I'll gentley show you the proper way to knee someone." The older dorin said as he moved in on Asharr and wrapped both arms around his neck and yanked the 7 foot dorin down, bent at the waist. He then drove his right knee which was kept back up into the area he would have struck had this been a real fight. "That is how you do it. It's trickier to do, because it doesn't always work, but sometime a good belly punch will bend them over setting themselves up for the knee, now I want you to wrap your arms around the back of my neck and hit my amrs which will be guarding my gut area." The teacher instructed as Asharr started to bounce around again, then quickly grabbed the back of Shik'ka's head. The old dorin bent over and held his fists near his abdomen, as Asharr drove his knee into them. He could feel and hear the connection made by his powerful knee, even Shik'ka was grunting a bit, but managed to instruct. "Keep driving that knee into my fists, 100 more times, then 100 more with the other."

Asharr raised an eyebrow at the thought of doing that one hundred times with each knee. He was in shape, but surley that would drain all the energy he had left for the brightening. "You got it, Shik'ka! The black dorin said as he winded back his knee and drove it in and repeated over and over again. By the end of the hundred for his right knee, he started fatiguing. It was hard work to do the same motion over and over again, but without complainging he got to work with the other knee and completed his excersise.

"I know its hard work, but endurance is a large part of this training. Hang in there." The teacher encouraged as he allowed another break from their training. The brightening was now at it's warmest moment with the sun as high as it could be. Asharr ran through some punches at the air to warm up abit before Shik'ka continued on with his lesson, introducing some shin kicks.

"Now we will begin with some kicks, then call it a brightening. When you kick, you should try to strike with your shin. This is something you need to practice over and over again because your shins may seem abit raw at first and hurt, but over time as you kick at various things you will condition them to be as hard as stone. Now watch me." He said as he got into his stance then flicked his leg into the air, snapping it at the end then retracting it back to the ground. "It's important to use your arm on the opposite side your kicking to block your vulnerable leg thats keeping you in the air. Drop it your side to provide the best shield."

Asharr moved back a step and prepared for a kick. He did as instructed with his opposite arm to shield his other half, as he snapped his leg out from the side. Shik'ka nodded his head then told the young dorin to attack him with some kicks to get a feel for them. "Ok, strike at my sides, I'll block them without hurting your fresh shins. One....two....one....two..." He called out as Asharr snapped his right leg, then left leg into the thick of Shik'ka's thigh. "Very good! Keep it up! One...two...one...two" The fatiguing from the knee excercises began to take their toll after a while of tossing kicks, and Shik'ka could see this. He halted the excercises then spoke. "You are doing very well, Asharr. Take the next brightening off from any formal training. Stretch and practice as your will, then we will continue the brightening after. I shall see you then." He extended a fist to Asharr's chest as the jet black dorin did the same. "Agreed, Shik'ka. I will practice on my own, until I see you next. May Aslan bless your brightening."