[@Hammerman][@Kalleth]

Alex and Max were not sttuned to the wind around them. They chuckled at the success of their elemental creation amd positioning along with the more immediate humor of their targets deftly overcoming this part of the obstacle course.
Alisha could feel ot keenly. Almost an extension of her own body were the winds around her. The girl below was about to do something rash..

The wind howling around Kanako reached an apex before she directed into the treetops.

"Heh. Shouldn't have done that.." Max whispered, shifting to look at their own air elementalist.

Alisha had her hand back and eyes closed as she communed with the air around them, coaxing it to her request. Unlike Kanakos way of channeling strong gusts through a gradual buildup, Alisha thrust her open palm down like she was squashing a bug.
The wind roared at her silent command. Two opposing forces of air clashed halfway to their tsrgets. The contest of who was stronger in this exchange between a beginner and a graduate-to-be was never in question.
The heavy gust did not break or stop Kanakos, instead absorbing her own blast of wind into Alishas to fall upon Jideh and Kanako. 
The dirt around them was tossed away in the sudden whipping storm of wind falling on them, pushing down and out rather than straight up.

When the raging storm cleared a moment later there was a circular trench almost a foot thick and wide around the pair from where the wind had dug into the soil. The two were not harned at all.

"WE SAID GET GOING!!" Alishas loud shrieking voice cut through the quiet of the night.