Push it to the Limit

When Akashi dropped down into her usual low stance, part of the masked grappler knew that charging her head on was going to be a painful error. Trying to take this bull by the horns was probably gonna get gored by the initial charge. She still did it though, meeting Akashi's charge with one of her own.

The slap could have been heard throughout the building for how loud it felt to Bullet Ant forcing her to wince, but she gritted her teeth and tried to fight trough the pain: grabbing the sumo's arm, spinning around so her hips were pressed up against the ex-champs belly and tried to sweep through, attempting to flip the big sumo over her hip with a judo throw, a far departure from her usual arsenal.

Then she could cradle her chest and cry "Owwwwwww!" all she liked, she just needed to show that she wasn't as pushable as she was the first time

Akashi was surprised when she felt Ant stiffen after the slap. SHe knew exactly how hard it was but when she was grabbed, her eyes widened. THIS was something she was definitely used to, and suddenly she felt at home. Her free hand instantly reached for Ant's hip, being used to grab a mawashi sash, but there was only tight spandex. She growled as she was unsettled and pushed her hand backwards, sliding it down Ant's ass to grab a cheek hard. Though she was losing her balance at this point and was going to topple. She wasn't worried about that. She toppled all the time. But her instinct was to make Ant his first, if she could hold her in her mid-throw position by holding onto her ass for dear life!

"Waah!" Bullet Ant let out as Akashi grabbed her firm rear, almost sending the masked wrestler shooting straight up out of shock, but that wasn't the worst part of it: now that Akashi had got her grip on she was going down with the sumo! As she toppled, she tried to get herself on-top, mid-fall. Even if she went down to the mat: 188 pounds crashing on top was not a favourable prospect.

Tina however looked on with interest, she was falling into the trap a lot of novices made: using in a spar just what she learnt a few minutes ago. She had been working with Bullet Ant to give her a little martial art skills and now she was trying them on Akashi: who in her training alone would have probably done a hundred and fifty times the work with throws that Bullet Ant had done, even if she didn't have a sash to grab if she just tried to throw Akashi around she was going to lose badly.

Akashi came crashing to the mat and hit it with a thud. She had not entirely been trying to fall on Ant but when she saw that she was not going to hit first, she pushed off enough so then she landed with a thud onto her side. She gave the ass she was clutchign a hard squeeze, as her hand was still pinned under Ant's leg and sahe looked at Ant and smiled. "Ari-chan!" She mused. "Don't fight a sumo with sumo tactics! That's just silly!"

Akashi was ready for more and let loose the ass cheek and yanked her arm free before standing up again, holding out a hand for Ant as well as she smiled at the girl. "Use the tools you have been given and turn your opponents strengths into their weaknesses!"

Bullet Ant was quite embarrassed, her chest really stung, she'd taken a tumble and now she was being lectured by her sparring partner "I-it was a judo tactic, not sumo." She tried to defend her choice of actions "And it kinda worked! Mostly because you didn't see it coming but still!" the masked wrestler insisted, blushing heavilly under her mask, partly because of her failed throw attempt and Akashi's hard squeeze.

"I... I knew that. I was just...trying to...shut up." She mumbled under her breath as Akashi offered her a hand, opting instead to pick herself up: her confidence shaken slightly as she tried to lock up again: going for a more traditional collar and elbow tie up.

Akashi furrowdd her brow as Ant started splitting hairs. "There are Sumo Kimarite that are indistinguishable from Judo moves!" She huffed and looked at Ant. She backed away when Ant decided to stand up for herself and took the collar-and-elbow tie up. She grunted as it was locked in and tried to push Ant backwards.

"So, this is probably a bad time, but why did you choose a lock up against a physically superior opponent? You should want to avoid close quarters fighting against an opponent my size!" She said and tried to give Ant a shove so hard she would fling her to the ground.

"In her defense, she didn't know that." Tina interjected, trying to cut off the squabbling between the two before it manifested in the spar as she awaited to see what her student would do next. A smile crept on her face, she'd seen Bullet try to do this to her: a lock up against someone a lot stronger than her was normally a recipe for disaster, but the masked wrestler went for it a lot fighting a battle she couldn't win, or at least seemed to.

Rule number 3: if your attack is going too well, you have walked into a trap.

Bullet Ant pushed back as hard as she could for a while, even if she was still moved back by the sumo, waiting for Akashi to commit to trying to really get the best of her: and she did. As Akashi tried to shove her as hard as possible, the masked grappler instantly dropped to her knees, trying to carry Akashi with the momentum over her shoulders and onto the mat with a quick fireman's carry, and with the force behind it, she wouldn't need to use that much strength at all.

Akashi's ear twitched at Tina's words but she didn't really hear them. She was intent on sending the insect flying and when she shoved, her eyes widened as she felt Ant drop and she was flipped over Ant and landed on her butt and back with a thud.

"Ooof!" She groaned as she was flipped, her cheeks flushing a bit. She then grinned. "Yosh!" She declared in praise for Ant's work. "Good job!" She exclaimed as she tried to roll away and get back onto her feet.

Bullet Ant smiled when Akashi complimented her, she was quite proud of her little trick and it was doing what the sumo had advised: using her opponent's strengths against her. "Heh, thanks!" She said as she picked herself up, confidence coming back to normal levels as she tried to see what Akashi would do next.

Tina however was less impressed. Even if it was an admirable display of sportswomanship, she felt her student could have really followed up into ground work, possibly forcing her way into a submission attempt instead of letting the sumo stand right back up.

Akashi stood back up and looked at Ant. She was more cautious now and stepped towards Ant. She had to get her to close quarters. She crouched and tried to get close enough to grab one of Ant's arms and pull her into a whip into the ropes, if she could.