The nuances of Niman and saber forms

[Shaddi]

Location: deep space​

Physical Location: On board a Shadow-class Reconaissance Corvette, Hangar​

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He sat in quiet meditation in the middle of the empty hangar, four Zuguruk Tyro Saber droid formed a square around him, with two Zuguruk Typhojem Saber-droids flanking him from a longer distance than the previous droids. With a slow and steady movement T'zanith rose up to his feet, hand clutching a Zuguruk Tyûk Saber and ignited it. He wore simple robes around his lower body so that his skin was exposed, this served the purpose of making any hits against him sting all the more.
"Initiate first droid, Niman teaching method." He said calmly and one of the tyro saber droids floated up from the ground and ignited it's own Tyûk Saber and moved to be in front of T'zanith as it seemed to be in a starting stance.
With a ready stance mimicking the droid T'zanith began to follow it's guiding moves, learning the first sets of moves within Niman. This was what was going on for half an hour, T'zanith slowly mimicking and sparring with the patient droid as it taught him the programmed moves of Niman. T'zanith liked the form as it incorporated a free flow of switching from force attacks to Lightsaber attacks at will. Once he was done learning he initiated the Droids sparring function and began.
The sudden shift from slow moving and directed instructional attacks to sudden and wild slashes and jabs, nearly caught T'zanith by surprise but he managed to get through the initial onslaught of attacks against him fairly quickly, with a a good hit against his leg, causing it to go numb.
With a curse under his breath T'zanith moved his hands up to block an overhead strike and used a force push against the droid to push it away and give him some room to breathe at least.
So it went back and forth, back and forth for an hour until T'zanith ordered the droid to stop and return to it's original location. T'zanith sat down, panting a bit as he used the force to move a bottle of water with a nutritional infusion to get his energy back. He wasn't exhausted, not even close but it was also to give his leg enough time to stop being numb.
Once he was done he stood back up and ordered another droid to attack him in Niman straight away. Now his range of motion was better and he could easily keep up with the droid now, even outmaneuvering it from time to time. As such time went by until suddenly T'zanith got the third good hit against the droid and it suddenly fell down against the ground. It was satisfying to beat the droid as he kept going with another droid until he had beaten all of the Tyro droids in Niman.
It had taken him an hour of constant moving and dueling and he sat down on the ground, panting hard as he then laid down against the ground. "Ok... lemme rest a bit..." He panted out as the Typhojem droids seemed to begin walking in circles around him, stalking him almost.

 

[Shaddi]

T'zanith felt uneasy when the Typhojem droids stalked him like that and soon his fears were realized as the two droids, shooting a saber from one of their forearms into their hands, suddenly came charging at him. Without thinking he switched to Djem-so and barely held the droids of at first but using the force to augment his body he managed to keep from being overwhelmed by the two superior duelist droids. He was kept on the defense by only one of them as the other simply stalked around and waited to come into the fight with the juyo form in full swing against T'zanith.
T'zanith was a bit glad that the other droid kept it's distance while they switched one another out to not fully overwhelm T'zanith but then he had to give in as he was forced to one knee by the powerful Juyo strikes of the second droid before the second droid came up behind him and slashed at his back with both it's sabers against his back. Everything spun for a moment before it faded to black as the numbness extended not only over his spine but he had also been hit in the back of the head as well.

He didn't know how long had passed when he woke up once more but the Typhojem droids were in a meditative stance on one end, their off posture, while the other Tyro droids were on the other end in their own off postures. T'zanith raised himself up and rubbed the back of his head as he winced a little, a sharp yet dull pain ran through his head and he promptly stood up and left the hangar to get himself something to eat and then he returned, Turning a single Typhojem droid back on and he began his sparring with that droid. Wishing to further his knowledge of the djem-so and Shiien variants of form V this time.

 

[Shaddi]

As he began to spar with the singular droid he fared a bit better than normal but he could feel it was playing with him as he jabbed and it parried and immediately countered hard enough to nearly hit him square in the jaw. Tilting his upper body fast enough to get out of the strikes way he also managed to turn his saber off and do a spin, fast enough to get into the droids defenses and turned the saber on to get a hit against it and side stepped back to get out of the way.
The droid seemed to growl as it gripped it's saber with both hands and took a very aggressive stance against him. As soon as he had moved two steps back and turned his saber back on the droid was on him, and it came at him hard as both of their blades locked and it nearly pushed him down against the ground so far in fact one of his knees was against the floor for support. With a burst of force energy into his body, he empowered his muscles with the strength he needed to push the droid enough to get back to his feet and then he pushed it back with another burst of energy into his muscles.
The droid spun in the air and nearly got a hit against him but he was able to block it just as it was about to strike his thigh. He could feel a tingling sensation run up his thigh as the saber was so close to touching his leg. This time he put the force energy into his muscles and began to sustain it that way, with it he managed to move the saber away with a strong enough push to make the droid's hand move hard enough to the side to give him a wide enough stance of the droid to get in his second strike.
The droid jumped back enough to give it a good time to unleash the second saber from the other forearm holster and as both sabers were ignited it roared at him and then jumped towards him with both sabers up in the air as it brought the sabers down against him.
The strikes were so sudden that as he blocked the strikes with a overhead sideways hold of his own saber it forced him to slide a few steps back and then forced him down on one knee again. He winced as the droid kept hammering it's blades against his to keep him down and then it kicked him square in the chest, sending him flying three meters back and landing on his back.
"Ugh... what was that..." He mumbled to himself as he was about to get up he saw the droid come charging at him. It wouldn't let him rest or even let up for that matter as it kept clashing against him. His saber came up as the droid slashed at him with both from the right and it sent him flying back again as his feet weren't planted against the ground for support but this strike gave him just the momentum he needed to plant his feet but he had only a moment to prepare for the droid was on him again and harder than ever.
"Chit!" He groaned as his hands became sore and numb under the barrage of strikes he was blocking against the droids ruthless assault. Part of him regretted ever programming that ruthlessness into them to properly train a student under heavy pressure but he wouldn't have it otherwise, it would only serve to soften the student.
With a force roar against the droid he pushed it's hands up far enough to get the third and final hit in to end the training session with it. As the strike hit home the droid took two steps back and then holstered it's sabers and moved to an inactive position.

 

[Shaddi]

The next droid he took on was also a Typhojem droid but with this one he trained in Shii-co. The raw and unpredictable form was too much at once and in the span of two minutes he was down his left hand and his right leg. Limping he moved to the side and swiped his saber against the droid as it came in for another sweeping attack against him. 'This one watched the other fight didn't it?' T'zanith thought with a creeping suspicion as the droid seemed to comprehend his movements and mannerisms before he even made them. It was a learning program he had installed into them to make the fights increasingly harder so that the training could keep going and going.
Again he reached into the force and pulled it into his body, submerging and satirizing his muscle fibers in force energy and bringing his body to and beyond it's peak physical condition. He felt incredible and he brought this power down upon the droid like a hurricane or tidal wave. The droid was brought on the defensive as quickly as it had begun it's own assault against T'zanith.
first strike and then the second strike came so quickly. As he was about to strike the final blow the droid brought it's own saber to bear and blocked his weapon as it then brought it's own assault back as it tried to gain the upper hand but it and T'zanith simply traded the upper hand, back and forth, back and forth for what felt like hours, until exhaustion was so close to locking it's claws into T'zanith that he sidestepped out of the way of an avalanche strike and managed the last hit that sent the droid into inactivity.
With a victorious raise of his hands he smiled, before falling backwards and landed on the ground, already asleep.

 

[Shaddi]

He awoke from gentle licks against his face and he pushed the eager Tuk'ata away from his face. It was Dilsya, the female of his Tuk'ata, that had woken him up while Khanath, the largest male, arrived with a bag of food in it's mouth. As T'zanith took the bag he saw that it was not only enough for him but also for the Tuk'ata and decided to have his breakfast with his Tuk'ata as he felt his muscles groan as he simply felt really sore after the training session he had had.
As he began eating he looked around, the Tuk'ata seemed to ignore everything around them as they wolfed down on their portions of the food. Once he was done he simply began meditating, the Tuk'ata began to imitate him by siting on either side of him with their eyes closed.
His breath was steady as he moved the force into himself, to pull the soreness and stiffness out of his muscles and body as he began to feel a little better as he was interrupted by an ensign running into the hangar to get him. "Sir we are being directed to Obredaan as the one sith is invading the planet, we will be making the jump to hyperspace in an hour." The ensign reported and then left the hangar as T'zanith waved him away. "Never get any R'n'R do we?" He said with a smirk towards Khanath who simply cocked his head to the side and looked at him in confusion.
T'zanith then headed towards his own private room to get ready for what was to come in a few hours.