[OOC] Fight Life

[Rend]

As stated in the Interest Check: My character, John Santel, has started up a MMA gym, and he hopes to facilitate his passion for fighting. The overall arc of the story will focus on the stuggles that a fighter goes through in their daily life, and eventually rising above those obstacles to compete in the local fight scene. As the story progresses, so will the skills of the fighters, and also their competition will become more skilled as well.

Up to this point no one has trained in the Strong Style Dojo other than John himself. He just opened the gym a few weeks ago, and hopes he can get a fight team going. The gym itself is a hole in the wall, because it's all he can afford at this time. Heavy bags hanging from the rack are duct taped to keep from spilling their guts. The mats are hand me downs from his old college wrestling team.

[Rend]

Name: John Santel
Age: 25
Experience: John has trained in various martial arts since he was 15 years old. Wrestled in highschool and college. Also Muay Thai kickboxing since he was 20.
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2
Weight: 197
short background: In school John was picked on for being different. Not that he was blatantly different, just his sense of humor and his personality didn't fit right with most of the kids. John has a stable family, but has since moved out on his own, after a few failed relationships. He has opened the Strong Style Dojo in hopes to facilitate his passion for fighting. So far he has been the only one to train there.

[GossipGirl]

Name: Macy Cowan
Age: 22
Experience: Knows lots of defensive moves and has been trained in karate and jiu jitsu since she was 12.
Gender: Female
Height: 5'4
Weight: 120
Short background: Macy's dad was a big army guy, and wanted to protect his daughter the best he could. So he taught her some of his military training and enrolled her in martial arts classes. At school she was a sporty girl and had many friends, but she could never be herself. Macy was expected to be someone, so the only place she could be herself was in training classes. Now that she's older, she's outgrown those karate classes and is looking for something new.

[Rend]

Approved! :)

[GossipGirl]

Woop woop!

[manapool1]

wait do I have to repost my character?

[GossipGirl]

I would just copy and paste it there but it's up to Rend.

[manapool1]

Name: jackson smith
Age: 21
Experience: trained in bokotar, Spear system, bare knuckle boxing and jeet kune do, pankration and tae kwon do
Gender:male
Height: 5'2
Weight: 115
short background: always feeling down, and seen as worthless to most people around him, a freind of his brought him to learn tae kwon do, but also brought him into the world of martial arts. Instantly falling in love with them, Jackson learned as much as he could from anyone, and practiced every moment he could, slowly bringing up his self esteem and moral. Eventually being taught jeet kune do by a friendly neighbor, he was talked into joining an mma circuit. When he looked into it, joining the first one he saw.

[Rend]

I just wanted it copy and pasted. Thanks! You're already approved.

[manapool1]

cool

[manapool1]

hope my first post was ok

[Rend]

Yeah you're alright. Feel free to post how you like.

[tanderbolt]

Name: Jorge Almeida
Age: 23
Experience: Been practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu regularly since his early teens. Recently has began learning basic boxing.
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: Walks around at 167, can cut don to 155
short background: Born in Brazil, his father was from America while his mother was Brazilian. His parents divorced when he was young, leaving his mother to raise him. He grew up in poverty, but still worked hard. He always liked sports, but preferred individual ones to team sports, and was fascinated by Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Eventually, he found BJJ gym where the owner took pity on him, allowing him work part time as a janitor instead of having to pay for lessons. He worked hard, and became one of the best students in the gym over the years. After finishing school and working menial jobs for a few years while training on the side, he began to grow restless. He hadn't heard from his father in years, and wanted to reunite with him. He saved up his money, and bought a one-way ticket to the US. For now, he is staying at the local YMCA and working odd jobs to make ends meet. In his spare time, he attends some of the boxing classes to round out his skillset.

I promise I won't flake this time.

[Rend]

Approved! And it's no big deal. Glad to have you back.

[manapool1]

still youngest, smallest and lightest

[Rend]

I'm the oldest and heaviest lol

[manapool1]

we are opposites

[manapool1]

guys... were are you? We need to get the extra person in

[Rend]

lol we both posted. Sorry I can only post so often sometimes. I had prior engagements today.

[manapool1]

Sorry, I think I was a little pushy, but really not that there are three of us It wont be as much of a problem