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(A NOTE: Nescaro and Mike313CL are the authors that work the most on the Champions and are the ones who make the final call on whether or not this is Canon. If they decide not to, or if in any way this would put in place the seed of further discontent, please disregard it as non-Canon.

As a possible minimum post-"Rise of the Extraordinary Avengers" training amongst the Champions has increased).

"Mixed Martial Arts. Doesn't really sounds like much, "mixed martial arts". What is there to be seen in those fights? People hugging each other and bashing each other's faces with their damn elbows?

You would be pretty surprised of how often superhero fights end that way. There's three ways they go: either it looks like a "Dragon Ball Z" episode, or it looks like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", or it's an MMA fight.

People focus on the former two a bit too damn much. Expect every single fight to be like that. They just keep forgetting that any fight that goes on long enough, any fight where Murphy fucks them in the ass hard enough, it always ends up looking like the third.

So they look for the coolest abilities. Powers are good, powers have their place in a fight, but in the end they go past being tools and become gimmicks. Tossing 350 punches in a single second is a gimmick -- something worth jack shit if not a single one of them is individually worth a damn (and before you argue, I mean it in the sense of closing your damn fist the correct way, fingers tight, and SWING and HIT where you want it to). The capacity to blow up an entire mountain range by waving the hand is a gimmick -- how often does that shit actually connect, or better yet, it's actually effective? A hell of a lot less than you're being led to believe on TV. Being fucking bomb-proof is a gimmick if you can't take being hurt --REALLY hurt-- like a man.

Running over rooftops, cloning, teleporting, bullet-dodging, the whole "feeling the Lifestream" thing... gimmicks. The program does a good job teaching those things, but me? I teach basics. I teach STRONG basics. I don't care about my students being nine-hundred-dan on some gods-damned super-secret technique -- I want them to come back ALIVE. I want them to be the last ones standing.

So I teach them how to fight. All out, no matter the circumstances. Wounded, empowered, depowered, weapons, no weapons, crippled, smashed to absolute shit, forced to hold back because the other guy is possessed or something, hot, cold, wet, you name it. They sweat, they bleed, they tire, they go to the med-day and McCoy screams at me about what the hell are they doing to each other, and after they get patched up, I make them "hug" each other and I keep teaching them how to be the meanest fighters they can be.

I teach them to fight clean. I teach them to fight dirty. I teach them when to apply mercy and I teach them when to be the most brutal sons of bitches in the room. I make sure they make every punch count and every hit they take costly to the enemy.

I'd like to think I am succeeding. But the one true proof is... and it will always be... on the battlefield."
-- The Journals of Ranma Saotome, Instructor, Champions Chicago Division.

(Art by Armando Chacon).

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(A NOTE: Nescaro and Mike313CL are the authors that work the most on the Champions and are the ones who make the final call on whether or not this is Canon. If they decide not to, or if in any way this would put in place the seed of further discontent, please disregard it as non-Canon.

As a possible minimum post-"Rise of the Extraordinary Avengers" training amongst the Champions has increased).

"Mixed Martial Arts. Doesn't really sounds like much, "mixed martial arts". What is there to be seen in those fights? People hugging each other and bashing each other's faces with their damn elbows?

You would be pretty surprised of how often superhero fights end that way. There's three ways they go: either it looks like a "Dragon Ball Z" episode, or it looks like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", or it's an MMA fight.

People focus on the former two a bit too damn much. Expect every single fight to be like that. They just keep forgetting that any fight that goes on long enough, any fight where Murphy fucks them in the ass hard enough, it always ends up looking like the third.

So they look for the coolest abilities. Powers are good, powers have their place in a fight, but in the end they go past being tools and become gimmicks. Tossing 350 punches in a single second is a gimmick -- something worth jack shit if not a single one of them is individually worth a damn (and before you argue, I mean it in the sense of closing your damn fist the correct way, fingers tight, and SWING and HIT where you want it to). The capacity to blow up an entire mountain range by waving the hand is a gimmick -- how often does that shit actually connect, or better yet, it's actually effective? A hell of a lot less than you're being led to believe on TV. Being fucking bomb-proof is a gimmick if you can't take being hurt --REALLY hurt-- like a man.

Running over rooftops, cloning, teleporting, bullet-dodging, the whole "feeling the Lifestream" thing... gimmicks. The program does a good job teaching those things, but me? I teach basics. I teach STRONG basics. I don't care about my students being nine-hundred-dan on some gods-damned super-secret technique -- I want them to come back ALIVE. I want them to be the last ones standing.

So I teach them how to fight. All out, no matter the circumstances. Wounded, empowered, depowered, weapons, no weapons, crippled, smashed to absolute shit, forced to hold back because the other guy is possessed or something, hot, cold, wet, you name it. They sweat, they bleed, they tire, they go to the med-day and McCoy screams at me about what the hell are they doing to each other, and after they get patched up, I make them "hug" each other and I keep teaching them how to be the meanest fighters they can be.

I teach them to fight clean. I teach them to fight dirty. I teach them when to apply mercy and I teach them when to be the most brutal sons of bitches in the room. I make sure they make every punch count and every hit they take costly to the enemy.

I'd like to think I am succeeding. But the one true proof is... and it will always be... on the battlefield."
-- The Journals of Ranma Saotome, Instructor, Champions Chicago Division.

(Art by Armando Chacon).