The Exams were over. Only one last Sport exercise needed to be done. „Rope Skipping "
It sounded unimportant and is often seen as a sport for girls.
Ben never thought like that. He saw it as a good coordinative Cardio-Exercise.
After the teacher had given the class the graded exercises, Ben had included rope skipping in his training.
It was just a little time-killer. Ben was compared to his classmate already a Stamina Monster. It won't be long and even professional Biker or Runner would have less Stamina.
The rope skipping grade would depend on two exercises. The first one graded the speed and stamina of the skipper. The second exercise was a choreography, which would strongly depend on creativity, coordination, and teamwork.
The groups had 3-4 members. Before the exams, they all had prepared a song and the movement pattern. Ben hoped that his group at least had trained a little bit.
To not be to depend on the other, Ben had planned everything.
The reason was easy, none in the group of guys was as motivated as Ben.
As the maker, he could focus the choreography on his movement. In normal cases, this would have resulted in confrontation from the rest of the team, but they were happy to just do the minimum.
One day before the sports lesson, the group met up to practice.
The practice didn't exactly happen like planned. The other didn't seem to understand why Ben was making them so much pressure.
They were doing what he wanted.
This could be seen as the difference between a perfectionist and a normal person.
Even after 1-hour practice, they hadn't had a perfect performance.
Ben knew exactly that doing a visible mistake would blow up their whole group, so he decided to facilitate their movements. He just needed that they moved with the rhythm and where synchro. Ben was going to teach them their choreography till they could do it perfectly.
„Skier, Skier, change to Side Straddle. Ron listen to the music! Be in the rhythm.
Now Twister and then Side Step."
„Ben. Isn't that enough? We are already in the gym for two hours. We are human beings, we need to eat and piss."
„Maybe the hunger and the urge to piss will motivate you. As you all stopped, we can start from the beginning. First High Step, then Bell and X."
15 min later...
„We did it." Simon said, exasperate from jumping.
„Finally, we can go home." Ron murmured relieved.
„Wait a minute. You need to be able to do it without my help. This time we perform it together. I brought a camera to watch over our moves. Give your best one last time."
The practice still took another half an hour. If Ben didn't have as much respect from his team member for having such a body, such good grades and working so hard. They probably would have long just left.
Ben was also quite tired of the exams, the choreography, the stock market and even just lying to his family.
Thankfully Ben knew that today he could sleep as much as he can.
The only demotivating thing was that he had to work out. To motivate himself to workout he planned to look at his status.
Looking at his status became a sort of little addiction, who would not want to see the progress in one's abilities. Even a decrease in abilities would result in Ben working even harder.
´Status open.´
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The increase in Intelligence wasn't a surprise. Ben continued meditation, learned hacking & Programming, and even had to force himself to study for the exams.
Ben had hoped that somehow his Strength would have risen, but it was also true that he didn't have the same motivation and circumstances to increase his Strength.
Mostly sleep was important in developing the muscles. At least, Ben had an increase in Stamina. The rope skipping with a training mask was quite effective.
The training mask was without doubt the most helpful equipment to increase Stamina.
Before going to sleep, Ben had decided to buy heavier weights as he wanted to fasten the progress.
With one of the longest nights since a year, Ben went to school motivated.
The stress, Ben had felt all these weeks seemed to have disappeared.
Ben was now focused to rock the sports lesson! He was also thinking about the coming things he had to do.
´Amerika. You won't have to wait for long. Another cowboy will soon be born. Can't wait to touch again a weapon. I mean to have a memory of a gun in my hands. Not like this body actually had a gun in its hand.´
In the last lesson of the day, Ben was having his choreography. Ben had arranged to be the last group as he thought that being the first one would degrade the grades of the other.
Being the last one should guarantee him to have a perfect score even if his group did a mistake.
Ben wasn't clapping at all the previous choreography. He thought it was hypocritical to clap for them if he could do so much better.
Some students cast him annoyed looks for his Attitude. Ben wasn't affected by it, he knew that they would soon understand.
It would be strange to clap and then stole them the light and maybe a lower grade.
The reason for his attitude was due to his moves. What the other groups had done were the basics with some advanced moves. But what Ben planned were the hardest solo moves coupled with his Freestyle moves.
Ben's group went to their position, while Ben was connecting his phone to the gym speaker.
The song he chose was Ma Cherie from DJ Antoine. Ben was not a great fan of new music and most of his Spotify songs ranged between 1980 and 2018.
Even though Ben had just chosen between songs of that range of years, Ma Chérie went really well for rope skipping.
The group danced very synchronized and didn't have any noticeable mistakes. This was mostly due because most attention was on Ben.
Beginning with Boxer jump, but shortly following with Toad.
After a while he did double under, then a triple under.
The perfect timing of his jumps with the beat made it quite magical.
In the following, he showed all the other solo moves he could like Leg over, Awesome Annie, Inverse toad, Elephant, Donkey kick, and TJ.
But these didn't describe in the lest how awesome they were.
The Donkey kick alone required Ben to do a handstand, return to his feet, and turns the rope under him.
Ben then followed up with another Donkey kick, but this time he turns the rope during the return to the ground, making the move even more difficult and breathtaking.
As they were coming to the climax, two guys of his group bound their rope together and made it swing.
Ben prepared himself and gave a sign to the guys to slow down.
He went in it and made use of his already deep freerunning skill to do a Cork, Backflip, Frontflip, Sideflip, Cartfull, Roundoff Backflip, Gainer Flash, and Fronthandspring.
And then the music stopped, the group was now bowing and waiting for clapping or feedbacks from their classmates. For a brief moment, nobody reacted, the teacher and the other groups were shocked.
Only Ben's group wasn't surprised as they had already seen Ben's choreography. This was also the main reason why they obeyed Ben so well.
„Wow. This was amazing. Ben! Are you doing rope skipping as a hobby?"
„No."
„Well then everyone I think we need to applaud."
With that comment, everyone started to clap fierily. But soon the first student realized that this could worsen the perception of the teacher and so worsen their grades.
Still, nobody gave any complaint. After all, it was too mind-blowing. Even on YouTube, you would rarely see something as good. Eren Müller was also in one of these groups, at first, he forgot that he was applauding an enemy, but soon his reasoning was back.
He couldn't believe how amazing Ben got. He never put Ben in his eyes till the day Ben humiliated him. He fought that after sealing of Ben's future everything would become fine, but every small action of Ben was pissing him off.
He had temporally forgotten the changes of Ben, but now seeing the girl's look, he realized that Ben was completely different.
He didn't just become very intellectual and good in sport. His body was just beaming from muscular strength and just now he showed his agility, flexibility, coordination, and stamina.
Even if no company was willing to hire him. He could try to become an actor or an athlete.
Comparing himself and Ben, Eren realized that only money and his family influence were his advantages. These things weren't omnipresent and would fade away in the future.
Having realized that, Eren was somehow disgusted. After the humiliation, he had never tried to better himself. Blaming a poorer guy for being better in something. He didn't try to improve but rested on his laurels.
He was remembering the guidance of his grandpa. When Grandpa was young he wasn't good in anything other than in commerce. It was only after finding somebody better than him that he developed to the point of being CEO of a large corporation.