Serious Training (for TheWamts)

The DJ looked exasperated at her training partner and shook her head, unable to keep from laughing derisively at Lotte's response. "Charlotte, how do you expect to improve if you aren't pushing yourself? Do you think you're just going to magically get better? I'm trying to take this seriously so I don't go out there and look like some loser who doesn't even know what she's doing, okay?"

Dani then put a hand to her forehead and took a deep breath to calm herself before taking a few steps away, still a little bit on edge. "Let's try this again, Charlotte..." said Dani Li, ready for another round, even if she wasn't sure that her opponent was. Still, she wanted to wring as much training time as she could out of Lotte as she could so she wouldn't feel this day of training was a bust.

"Get better...? Uh..." Well, there was working out and getting fitter, but there was a limit to how far Lotte wanted to push her wrestling career, and she was more or less there already. After all, she (and pretty much everyone else in the league) was only here as long as their looks held out, and so it'd be a waste to focus so much effort on that...

But the blonde would hold her tongue, figuring that returning a mini-lecture with another mini-lecture would just be a waste of time for both sides, getting back on her feet at Dani's request. "Yeah, sure... seriously though, there's worse things than having an easy time for once, Dani~" Lotte said, trying to keep things light, counting down 3 fingers again before charging directly for the famous DJ, arm extended.

With a sour smile, DJ Li answered the blonde. "Nothing good ever comes easy, Charlotte!" she said in a passive-aggressive tone. The pink-haired woman was ready to go after Lotte again and after the British girl counted down, she raced at her. She saw her go for a clothesline and her mind went through the options she could take to avoid or counter it. Simply ducking, turning it into a judo takedown, sliding between her legs. There were a manner of things Dani could do against such an attack. However, the Chinese-American competitor had her mind made up before they even started. She took the clothesline to the chest and hit the mat. "Oof!" she yelled on impact.

Thinking that maybe Lotte needed a little confidence boost, Li decided to take the hit for her. She thought that maybe if the cosplaying wrestler could feel more sure of herself, she'd try harder. And Dani began to stand up slowly, holding her chest and leaving herself vulnerable for another attack from Lotte.

And not everything good comes hard either. She thought without saying it aloud. Back to the action, no more time for chatting just yet. Dani took the attack, to Lotte's slight surprise. One sort-of raised eyebrow later, Lotte formulated a follow up attack on the Chinese superstar in her head.

The cosplayer waited for Dani to rise, using the ropes to give herself a bit of extra speed on her approach, jumping high, raising her knee cross with Dani's chest, hoping for another big collision, but maybe the surprisingly skilled DJ would have an answer for that.

As Dani got to her feet, she could see Lotte running at her. Part of her wanted to not take the attack, whatever it would be, because that would hurt. And the DJ, like most people, hated to be hurt. But Li thought this would be the best way to really make her sparring partner get competitive with this. She braced herself for impact and got hit with the knee straight to her chest!

DJ Li hit the mat hard and rolled through the impact and flopped right onto her front. Dani held her chest and pressed her head against the mat, taking a moment to try and catch her breath, leaving herself vulnerable to the blonde Brit once more. Dani wasn't sure when she'd start to come back from this, but for now Lotte could show off what skills she had.

Lotte might've just gotten a bit lucky there, but it didn't matter how she got the lead, the important thing was that she kept pressing it, "Hyah!" She sped towards Dani's downed form, stomping her in the back before she could get up, getting a bit more aggressive than she usually was during practice.

DJ Li picked her head up and got to her hands and knees, only to be hit with a stomp! "Wooph!" she shouted as she flopped right back down onto the mat. Dani reached back with a hand to hold her back, wincing. Lotte had it in her to do better, and she was proving it now. The pink-haired girl was prone, at Lotte's mercy as she laid there, not because Li was letting her at this point, but because Lotte had actually used her aggression to the point that she had stunned Dani enough that she couldn't do anything to stop her currently. The Chinese-American had to think if maybe this would end up not being a good idea to let her opponent get a few free hits on her.

Part of Lotte wanted to keep stomping until she'd spent her frustration, but the more rational part of her reminded her that there was a limit to how far she should go, especially since they were supposed to just be in practice.

Deciding against her initial instinct, she would instead reach down for Li's wrists, setting a foot against Li's upper back, and use this practice session to actually practice a hold. She was no good at them, but with Li so softened up, maybe it'd work this time...

"Ready, Miss Dani?" Lotte said happily, before pulling back on the DJ's slender arms, trying to get her in a seated surfboard.

Dani Li was thankful that Lotte didn't follow up with even more stomps, but she suddenly felt her wrists get pulled back as she was forced to a sitting position. Lotte was actually about to try a hold! The DJ was shocked to notice that, especially since she had considered at this point that her British sparring partner didn't have the skill to lock in a submission. But as it turned out, Dani was locked into a surfboard hold and she immediately let out a yell and kicked her legs.

She winced, trying to gut through the pain in her back and arms. "Grr... I'm not going to give up so easily, you know!" shouted Li. She really wanted to tough out the blonde's submission, because that's why she was there, right? To get better at that sort of thing? And she felt like by now Lotte had gotten enough hits on her now that she felt confident enough to try fighting back. Dani's thin but athletic arms made it easy for Lotte to keep her hold on, but that didn't mean Dani couldn't try to escape. She grunted as she tried turning to either side, to no avail. The pink-haired beauty then took a deep breath and planted her feet and tried her best to try and gain enough leverage to try and dislodge Lotte's foot from her back.

The hold was nothing too complicated, but it seemed to have its effect on the DJ regardless. Dani was a bit too determined to let it force out a submission right away however, she started twisting and kicking around every which way, eventually forcing herself away from Lotte's foot.

"You're so stubborn, Miss Dani!" Lotte was only half joking, sounding pretty frustrated. Still, she had Dani's wrists in her hands for the moment, so before she could escape completely, Lotte would tug on the left arm, trying to whip her tough practice partner into the far ropes.