Helena's heart swelled as Dan Green gave them his speech.  He seemed so casual, but then again a skilled fighter as himself had no reason to be too intimidating- everybody here should know he would destroy them within the first round.  Dan Green saw something in each of them and gave them an amazing gym like this to train in.  He wanted all of them to succeed, and that made Helena feel pretty damn special.

Green invited the crew to tour the academy until he was back.  Helena really didn't want to go to far.  Instead she looked at the heavy bags.  They sat in the bus for so long, she at least needed a bit of a stretch.  So, she walked over to the heavy bag area, carefully slipped off her shoes, and bowed before stepping on the mat- a tradition at her own, and many other gyms.  She pushed the heavy bag, testing its weight.  "Yup, that's heavy," she confirmed to herself with a slight smirk.  The woman got into her stance, and loosely jabbed at the bag, making sure she was a good distance away from it.  Then, she hit it a bit harder, now doing "the ol' 1-2."  Of course she wouldn't go all out on the bag now, as she had no hand protection.  There was no way she was going to injure her hand the first day.

So, Helena continued the light tapping of the bag, slowly introducing hooks, uppercuts, elbows, and knees.  She kept her rhythm fairly slow, mainly concentrating on her fluidity of moving from one strike to the next.