Phys. Ed. Class #1

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The gymnasium. It was large and quite to his liking, even though he would have preferred to have his class outside… it just wasn’t feasible what with the weather being so cold. Isaac stood, arms crossed, surveying the gym one last time before deciding that the rubber mats on the floor were good where they were and he wasn’t going to rearrange them again.

He had a good idea for how he wanted his class to go. Isaac was planning on starting with P.T. P.T., or Physical Training, was always a good starting point and he wanted to get a feel for how in shape his students were. His P.E classes weren’t going to be all fun and games, they were going to focus on getting in shape as well as having fun. That’s what the mats were for. Isaac had them laid out so that his students would stand facing him and he them. They’d start with basic stretches; the Hamstring Stretch, Toe Touch, and Over-Arm Bend. After limbering up, they’d do a few exercises before being released to do whatever they liked for the rest of the period. The exercises he was planning on having them do included Push-Ups, Sit-Ups and Crunches, and Side Straddle Hops (aka Jumping Jacks). Then, he planned on having the students run four laps around the gym. He’d start out easy and add tougher exercises as they went along.

Isaac wasn’t too worried about his students not showing up prepared. The night before he’d sent out a mass email detailing his goals for the class and what the students should expect to be doing and what to bring to change into in the locker rooms (in this case, gym shorts and a t-shirt or jogging clothes… something comfortable that wasn’t jeans and ‘school’ clothes). The email also explained that the Phys. Ed. and Health classes would rotate, with the first class being P.E and the second being Health and so on and so forth and the P.E classes would meet in the Gymnasium until warmer weather, upon which they’d meet outside in the field or at the track most of the time. At the end of the semester there would be an exam in both Physical Education and Health.

Isaac himself wore long gym shorts and a simple t-shirt. A thin gold chain hung around his neck along with a gym whistle and a pair of sunglasses sat perched atop his head. On his feet were comfortable sneakers and a gold watch was on his wrist. He glanced at the watch. His class started in fifteen minutes and he hoped his students had taken his email to heart and arrived in time to change into their gym clothes. He’d hate have to take points and be labeled the ‘bad guy’ on his first day.

@aedus
Athena Achilles
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@olivia
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Olivia had been looking forward to having PE again, although she wouldn't be surprised if she hated the first few weeks of class, as she always did. Feeling out a new teacher, and the new teacher feeling out their class, would be interesting, to say the least. However, she couldn't hold it against them, as much as she might want to. As it was, hopefully she wouldn't be too sore for her riding classes.

After her previous class let out, Olivia headed towards the gym, arriving and finding her way to the locker room easily enough. She had thrown a pair of grey sweats and a dark-blue shirt into her backpack, for just this class. Once she had laced up her tennis shoes again, Olivia found a place for her backpack, which didn't have anything worth worrying about having stolen, then left the locker room to head to the main part of the gym.

Upon entering the large hall, she smiled at the teacher before looking around at the set-up, which included mats. Well, that would be fun, she guessed. Taking a deep breath, she laced her fingers behind her back, straightening her arms and then pulling them upwards as she leaned forward,

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The weather was nasty as Paisley walked along the path to the gym as she left her classroom in time to walk across campus to get to get to the gym. Paisley was lucky that she remember her gym bag before she left her dorm room this morning so she didn't have to run across campus to get the gym bag. Paisley watched as many other students walked along the sidewalks trying to get to class right a long with her. She sent them a few smiles and saw some that were in her other classes, but other than that she didn't know their names. Paisley opened the gym doors before walking into the hall and finding the girls locker room. She did notice another girl in the gym before going into the locker room.

Once dressed up she pushed her hoodie and sweatpants into the locker she choose to house her school bag and gym bag before running to the mirror to pushed her hair long blonde into a messy ponytail before going to her bag to find the headband out and stuck it around her head to help keep her hair out of her face. She sat on the bench and pulled her jordan socks and shoes on before running up the stairs and on to the gym floor.She saw several matts and of course the other girl stretching all ready. Paisley has played sports before, but of course every school was different. She took off around the gym at a slow jog for about twice around the gym just to warm herself before she started to simple stretches. That was when she noticed the coach in the gym. She walked up to him with a smile,Hello Coach Dixon? Umm..I know I'm not on the roll yet, but I just started here.

She said as she waited for him to reply. She was already warmed up and some stretched out ready for whatever the coach wanted to do today.

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Isaac was pleased upon seeing the first student enter the gymnasium and he gave her a small nod of approval, not saying a word, when she started doing some simple warm-ups. He watched her for a few moments, then looked away to his watch, checking the time. Not much longer before the class was due to begin. He wondered briefly just how many of his students were planning on showing up...

As the second girl entered the gym, Isaac glanced at his watch one more time. A quick decision to hold off for five ore minutes came easily and he nodded to what this particular girl said, giving her an easy smile. "What's your name and I'll add you to the roll."

When it came time to start the class, Isaac blew two short blasts on the whistle around his neck. "Front and center!" He barked, indicating the mats in front of him. "I'll take roll, then we'll get started..."

After marking everyone as either absent or present, Isaac stood in front of the two girls, arms crossed as he looked them over. He didn't mind having small classes, it meant more one-on-one work with the students, though he did wish the others had shown up... If they did, they'd be late and have points deducted. Isaac cleared his throat, giving a smile to the two students as he uncrossed his arms. "First and foremost, let me introduce myself. I'm Coach Dixon. My full name is Isaac James Dixon. Before I started here as the gym coach, I spent a number of years as a police officer in Alabama. My goals for this class are simple. I want you to try your best and then push yourself past that limit. This class will be compiled of physical training such as stretches and exercises, 'fun time' in which we'll play round robin basketball, volleyball if we ever pick up enough students... or you'll just have the time to yourselves to do what you want, and health, which will meet in a classroom setting and will go through topics such as personal hygiene, personal health, and safe practices. Any questions?" He paused a moment, "Now, if you will, the both of you, I'd like you to tell me something about yourself regarding your own physical fitness or exercise routine."

[Athena Achilles]

Athena's day had been going well, and then her social worker decided to pay the girl a visit between classes. The girl, now frozen from standing outside in her gym clothes, cringed at each degrading word the woman said to her, and all the girl could think about was the fact that she was going to be late for her next class. She jumped as the tardi bell sounded and bowed her head even more as Kallias laughed. he dropped a hasty curtsy as she was finally given leave and the girl sprinted toward the gymnasium and slipped in through the door. She stood silently, by the door, as a man was talking to the two students standing in the middle of the floor.

As much as she wanted to slip back out of the room, she walked forward. Once the others had finished speaking, Athena battled with herself on what to do. She knew that she needed to announce her arrival, and she also needed to apologise for being late, the only problem was that the girl didn't speak, not if she could help it.

Clenching her fists, because she could feel her hands shaking and hoped that all of her was trembling too. She then cleared her through gently, trying to build herself up for talking. Drawing in a deep breath she opened her mouth, and to her horror, nothing came out. She closed her mouth again and chewed on her lower lip, thinking the words through in her head. Closing her eyes to steady herself, she tried again. "I am Athena Achilles. I have no excuse for my tardiness, I truly am sorry." She flinched once she had spoken as though expecting a strike.

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Olivia didn't miss the small nod that came her way, although she didn't respond as she moved through progressively more and more common stretches. The whistle came while she was on one foot, pulling the other up in what was commonly called the 'flamingo' stretch, but was more officially known as the quadriceps stretch.

Putting her leg down, Olivia approached the teacher, finding a space on the mat with the other girl. She had known Blue Ridge had small classes, but really? A class of two was strange. Perhaps people were just not showing up, rather. Not that she was complaining, really. As the teacher began, she listened, chuckling under her breath at his comment about more students. When asked about questions, she shook her head, then spoke up as they were asked about themselves, "I'm Olivia. I usually do a lot of trail running and hiking, although the weather right now isn't conducive." One needed to be able to follow a SAR dog through brush for extended periods of time if one harboured a hope of actually getting a trainee eventually.

Unsure of what else he wanted, she shrugged and turned to the other girl, a newcomer that she hadn't seen in any of her classes before, although she caught a glimpse of a second girl, obviously just slightly late, whom she had seen in math before.

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Paisley went back to stretching after she talked to the coach as she worked on the floor doing simple butterflies,and toe touches, just something to do while she waited for the class to began. She took one leg behind her and stretched forward to reach her right foot and laid there for a couple of seconds before doing the same to the other leg.

Paisley jumped off the floor as the whistle was blown and walked over to the matts and stepped up. She stood there with her hands behind her back as she stood there and listened to Coach Dixon talk about what he wanted into the class. She couldn't help but wrinkle her nose up about the classroom classes, but she would do what she was told. Paisley listened to the girl beside her who was "Olivia" and smiled as she talked about herself.I'm Paisley, I have played in many different sports basketball,cross-country,track,and softball. She said with a grin as she watched another student come into the building late, but she was here as she apologize to the coach for being late. She never seen both of them, but maybe they could become friends here in this class? Maybe they were in the very same classes and she hadn't really noticed them at all. Paisley turned her attention to Coach Dixon as she waited his instructions.

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"Oh great! My first day in class and I'm ten minutes late!" River grumbled sarcastically to himself and he bounded out of the locker rooms, hopping on his right foot so that he could shove his left into his running shoe.
He wasn't tardy due to laziness, or or getting a late start. It was, too his embarrassment, that he had gotten lost on his way from his locker after taking a wrong turn down the hall.
It would have been worse, if he hadn't booked it back down the the other direction and rushed getting changed out of his school clothes and into his shorts and tank. Though, his gym teacher probably wouldn't have seen it as a save like he did. Oh well.... All he could do now was face the music and hope he didn't get into too much trouble.

Once he was fully shoed River dashed up to where the rest of his small, female populated class was gathering in front of the teacher.
He had missed most of his announcement while trying to get dressed, so River was left to stand there quietly and try to pick up on what was going on by the girl's responses.

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Isaac sighed when the first of his late students arrived and shook his head slightly before giving the girl a kind smile when she approached him. He wasn’t a human-eating monster, afterall, and he could understand, to some extent, his students tardiness.

Watching as she approached him, Isaac wondered briefly if he appeared as scary as she seemed terrified, and he tilted his head at her approach, listening to her excuse and trying to not smile, though the corner of his lips were upturned and his eyes belayed the fact that he truly wasn’t angry.

“Well, Athena, I suppose I can let this one time slide, especially since it is the first class.” He said to the girl before motioning with a hand for her to join her classmates. He once again gave the girl, Olivia a nod of approval upon hearing her speak, “Good on you.” He said to her before giving Paisley a small grin upon hearing how active she was. That was good in his book.

Dealing with the girl, Athena, had cost several minutes of the class, and right as Isaac started once again to speak, in came yet another late student. Frankly, it was beginning to get a little annoying, but he could understand their lateness. Isaac waved a hand at the boy, “Come on in. We’re just now getting started. One of the other students can fill you in on what you missed.” He said, then grinned, “You’re in luck, too. I just decided to not take any points for tardiness today.”

Clapping his hands, Isaac cleared his throat and bounced on the balls of his feet. “Alright, let’s get started. We’re going to do a few basic stretches first. The first is the Overhead Arm Stretch.” Demonstrating it, Isaac stood with his feet a shoulder’s width apart and pulled his left arm over his head, placing his hand at the back of his neck. With the other hand, he grasped his elbow and pulled to the left. “We hold this position for about fifteen second and then switch arms.” He explained, waiting for the students to copy him before performing the stretch both ways and straightening up again, rolling his shoulders.

“Next is the Thigh Stretch.” Taking a moment to explain the stretch and demonstrate it, Isaac balanced on his right leg and bent the left one back towards his buttocks. Grasping the toe of his shoe, he pulled his leg back upwards, towards his buttocks. “The flexibility of each of you on this stretch will vary,” He explained, once again waiting for the students to copy him before holding the pose for fifteen seconds. “Your balance will get better as you get more used to it.” He added, switching legs and holding the other leg back for the designated timeframe.

“Now, I know you all have to know this one… commonly called the Toe-Touch, the proper name is the Hamstring Stretch.” He didn’t bother explaining this stretch, as everyone should know what a toe-touch is. “Hold it for fifteen seconds… alright, now, feet a shoulders-width apart. Both hands on your left… and hold! On your right, and hold!” He did, however, verbally explain the two other variations of the toe-touch he required.

“The last stretch for today is the Hip and Back Stretch.” As he spoke, he lowered himself to sit on the ground and indicated the students to do the same. Isaac demonstrated the stretch by stretching out his right leg and crossing his left one over it while sitting straight. “Keep both heels on the ground and slowly rotate your upper body to look over your shoulder.” As he explained, he reached across his left leg with his right arm and pushed his right leg against his left, stretching the muscles. “We hold it for… you got it! Fifteen seconds, then switch legs.” He said, watching his students, ready to offer help or advise if need be. Isaac grinned. He was in his element, and already his mind was fast-forwarding to the exercises they were going to do.

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Notes: Forgot to add his outfit! Lol!

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Olivia gave the teacher a small smile on his compliment, then went back to listening to the other student speaking. Well, there was someone really active. She hadn't really ever found her niche in actual sports, that was for other people, but if they enjoyed them? Good for them. Less people on the trails for her to contend with.

As another male came into the class late, Olivia listened to their interaction, then moved over to stand closer to the boy, "That's Coach Dixon, the class is going to be a mixture of physical training, fun games, and classroom time, which is the health section." Having finished her succinct summary, she turned her attention back to the teacher, copying his motion into the familiar stretch. As he started explaining, she started counting in her head, switching as she reached fifteen.

As they moved through the stretches, Olivia followed along easily, most of them familiar, even if her flexibility on her left leg wasn't as good as she would like for the thigh stretch. Finishing with what the teacher had called the hip and back stretch, she twisted to look over her shoulder, then came around after she'd finished the second side, smiling briefly as she waited for their next instructions.

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Athena was so grateful that her tardiness was being over-looked that she could have fainted - if she was that dramatic - instead, she hurried to join the others. She knew that she hadn't offered any information about her physical fitness or exercise routines, nor had he asked for them.

Sliding her feet into second position, she had some things ingrained in her, and standing like this was as natural for her as breathing. She followed the teacher's movements with the arm stretch. She was careful not to pull her elbow too far as she didn't want to give away too much of her flexibility. She then switched arms.

The next stretch she had problems with, as most of her time on the ice was spent on one foot, and then only on 3 millimetres of steel, so she had perfect balance on both legs and once her other foot was off the ground, she didn't wobble once.

Her eyebrow lifted at the term toe-touch, but she understood as soon as the teacher went on. Ok, so not the toe-touch she was thinking of. With her feet back on second position, she folded at the waist, the palm of her right hand flat on the toes of her left foot, the other hand flat on top of that one, she then swapped sides, swapping hands as well so that the opposite hand was on the bottom.

The last stretch - which Athena knew to be a seated hip flexor stretch - was pretty simple, as she needed to keep her hips supple for skating, so she needed to turn firther than nost until she actually felt the stretch.