Battle of the Giants [Lexington]

After his last class Lexington made his way to the locker room. Cracking open his locker and retrieving his gym bag he began lacing up his running shoes then he threw on a red New York Giants underarmour shirt and blue shorts. Reaching into his gym bag he pulled out his phone. Macht had sent him a text. "Meet me in the gym after school." "Ight, I can dig it." Lexington said as he locked everything except his phone away in his gym locker and walked out the locker room.

The moment he opened the door he could hear basketballs bouncing off the floor and going through the net. Macht was Lex's first friend at this new school so it was nice to know that Macht didn't just up and forget about Lex. "Yo man! Congrats on becoming a pillar, I wanted to say the same thing to Rhett, but I haven't seen him since. That kid is pretty tough." Lex threw up a hand as he went to give Macht a high five.

Lexington embraced Macht and then let him take a moment to explain why he wanted to meet up. Everything Macht was saying spoke to Lex's character. A chance to get stronger. New sparring partners. A first chance at a pretty solid squad. Lexington couldn't help but break into a little smile after hearing all of this. Macht seemed genuine and he knew how to handle himself if the situation called for it. "Yea man I'll join you, you guys seem like a rock solid group and I'd like to train with you also, I'm always down for learning something new especially if it involves fighting." Lexington extended his hand out for a handshake.

As Macht separated and gave him breathing room, Lex relaxed himself. Being mainly skilled as a right-handed boxer Lexington decided to go with a different approach to fight Macht. Lex went with a southpaw boxing stance mirroring his orthodox stance he wanted to match speed with speed. Leading with his strong side Lexington began bobbing back and forth and he progressed towards Macht. Every step forward Lex took he always brought his back foot with him, but he made sure he positioned it in a spot where he could use his legs to help rebound. Knowing boxing and martial arts helped Lex because he could improvise on the spot.

Lex's assault started, he struck a quick feint right jab aiming for the left shoulder, but getting just close enough to make Macht move. He would slide forward with the feint and strike two left jabs. The first jab aimed for his Macht's right shoulder and the second one aimed straight for the chest. These punches weren't meant to pound on any organs, but were built to deal some damage. A person as fast as Macht could only dodge someone as well taught as Lex for so long.

When Macht caught Lex's hand, Lex did a bicep curl like motion and pulled Macht towards him trying to get him off balance. Now that they were closer when Macht did his next move of extending his palm into Lex's chest. Lexington was able to keep Macht close with his opponents first action and embrace him by grasping tightly onto his incoming wrist. This also would help to prevent Macht from being able to sweep Lex's leg. Now his initial action was to twist his wrist and put him in a wristlock, but instead Lex decided to use his legs and give a little added reinforcement to a powerful chest bump. He was hoping that his added 40lbs of deadweight were enough to knock Macht down.

When Macht pulled Lex forward, he went with the flow of the pull. Lex noticed that Macht was going to headbutt him and with little time to react Lex could only move his head upwards. Three inches worth of additional height saved his nose from being broken. Lex was an iron chin type of guy and could take hits to the head so the headbutt caught him. Lex quickly panted as he pieced himself back together. Just like practice.. He thought. Lex was used to taking a beating and he was able to improvise well. When Macht freed himself Lexington quickly thought to switch styles from boxing to martial arts and wrestling. His opponent grabbed his wrist and when he did so Lex immediately twisted his wrist as far as he could towards Macht's thumb. The thumb being the weaker part of the hand to extend should allow for Lex's hand to escape. If Lex did escape, with the newly freed hand he would grab the same wrist that he escaped from. Essentially switching wrist position so that Lex was now holding onto Macht's wrist. When he had Macht's wrist he would jerk Macht toward him and throw a powerful haymaker aimed for the spleen.

When Macht pulled Lex towards him, Lex had one free arm left still. He allowed himself to get pulled in close to Macht and kept his free arm ready, when his opponent released him, Lexington immediately performed a hard thunderclap. Slapping both of Macht's ears quickly with cupped hands to distort his balance, immediately he would follow up with a double hammer fist to the base of his neck on each side. If the forearm strike was still coming it would hit Lexington's injured arm. The distance between Macht's ears and base of his neck should allow for a successful quick 1-2 strike. Hitting the base of his opponent's neck can disrupt breathing because the apex of the lungs reside at the base of the neck. Lexington would then take two steps back in an attempt to free up some more moving space between the two and gain a few seconds to think out his next 'planned' attack.

Lexington went crashing to the floor like a skyscraper. The teen was having a large amount of fun, he slammed his fists on the ground then hopped up onto the ground straight from his back. "Alright you've got a deal G. I like how this is going" A little blood dripped from Lex's injured left arm, but he paid it no mind. Slapping himself in the face a few times, Lexington took off his shirt and began flexing like Bruce Lee did in Way of the Dragon. However, he kept the shirt in his uninjured right hand. Lex made a small tear in the collar of the shirt and then he began swirling it like a flail by his side. He assumed a different stance, one that he hasn't exactly practiced a whole lot, but right now was a learning experience. His feet are at shoulder width. The foot in the front is fully frontal, toes facing forward. The rear foot is turned roughly eighty to ninety degrees out and is positioned in a way that if the front foot is brought back, its heel will touch the heel of the rear foot. Therefore his feet are stanced out like an 'L'. The weight of the giant is kept 70% on the rear foot.

Lexington just stood there relaxed.. staring down Macht while still swirling the shirt. In his head he was counting down from 2 minutes and was nearing the final seconds. "5..4..3...2...1..." Lex mouthed to himself. Immediately he began to progress forward quickly. Instead of picking up his feet he was shuffling them. Every shuffle, every drag there was a screeching 'skrrrt' being emitted. Constant rubber on rubber caused an incredibly annoying sound. Lex crouched low, keeping the same stance and whipped the shirt at Macht's knee. Regardless if he made contact or not he would immediately retreat a few steps and then repeat the same process. Lex was observing Macht, but he wasn't making it entirely obvious. He wanted him to think something was 'up'