After Izumi went through her stretches, Michiko quickly wrote the times down next to the schedule. As Izumi approached the line Michiko readied the stopwatch, then yelled, "GO!," Impressed by Izumi's run, Michiko gave a wide smile as Izumi walked over to her. However that smile obliterated by the time Izumi finished speaking. "Uhh yeah, okay, sure," Michiko mumbled, then jumped back a bit at Rikyu, who was right behind Izumi. He couldn't run too fast yet he seemed to come across the court in an instant, interesting.
Masaru ran over to Michiko and asked, "Hey coach, how'd we all do?" and Michiko looked up. "Taki-kun, I'm announcing the times!" Michiko yelled out then looked down, not paying attention to whether Taki came over and said, "Taki got 15.64 seconds, Masura got 15.78 seconds, Rikyu got 27.93 seconds and Izumi got 17.06 seconds, good job everyone," with a bit of a smile, analyzing the results.
Taki was remarkably fast and had a good sense of balance, working well around the court, keeping a style relying on lower body strength, not speed or technique, powering through the course. He seemed to hardly break a sweat, even though one suicide drill is easy most people show slight stress setting their body into motion. However Taki visibly had endurance as well as excellent acceleration and deceleration.
Masura decided to take the drill as a chance to show off his skill of mimicry. However, an interesting part existed. A duck and spin at the baseline, which saved him time on the turn better than Taki. Masura may have just stolen this from someone else, but it was also possible this was Masura's original skill. Masura's copying was near flawless, with only 14 splitseconds behind Taki.
Rikyu had competent running skill, better than a normal person but for a basketball player, especially one with his reputation in middle school, he seemed painfully slow. One would think that Rikyu had good all-around skills but his lack of endurance and speed would make one think otherwise. Rikyu, the Shadow, his skills seem to be on a whole different plane to the normal basketball player. He has literally never tried to shoot in a game, always using his invisible passes and sudden steals, normally sending it to a skilled shooter.
Izumi had remarkable skill, unlike Taki she used mainly technique in her movements, pretty close behind the two leading boys. Izumi would be a great addition to the team if girls were allowed, Izumi could easily hold her own in a game with guys in it, in fact she has probably done exactly that many times in past, that would explain the lack of femininity.
As Kimura announced the training schedule, Michiko nodded and went up the sidelines to watch everyone from above. Masura simply smiled and ran up to the agility ladder, waiting for the not-so-friendly giant to come over to it. Who knows, thought Masura, maybe he can even talk.
At the news of the training Rikyu gave a sigh. In his first year of middle school he was judged for his lack of athletic ability by everyone but the captain of his team who would now be a third year. Ever since his captain told Rikyu that his skill was completely different to normal basketball players, Rikyu worked to develop his ability and gained respect. Now it seemed all over again he would be compared to a normal basketball player's skills. Rikyu ran over to the tape hexagon and remembered it as a co-ordination exercise, doing two-footed jumps over each edge all around. The time could be used to figure out a co-ordination score in comparison with the normal basketball player, from 0-100. Although 0-20 would require skills worse than someone with two broken legs and no crutches or wheelchair. "Well," Rikyu muttered to himself, "Here we go again,"