"Ok Myles ready to get back to it?" Isaac and Myles were back on the mat the two standing next to each other and Evan sitting on the bean bag watching.

"Sure am!" Myles replied ecstatic already taking the previous position.

Isaac chuckled as he too took their previous position.

"Ok so what we're doing is just corkscrewing arms like we did with the jab full extension making contact with our fists again keeping the opposite hand up protecting our chin with our shoulder and again a quick retraction back to guard ok."

Myles performed the move perfect

"Now number three is the hook, the lead hook, so the hand that is in front closer to the target we're going to rotate on our foot, turn our knee over, turn our hip and throw the lead hook which looks like this. Keep your arm bent in a 90 degree like so, imagine you have a box and you're holding onto it you don't want to drop it this is the motion to practice the hook here.

He was twisting his hips, the one arm up for protection and the in the 'holding box' position.

"It's not an arm punch it's a full body punch we combine the torque of our hip and-"

He was stopped when he heard the two start giggling

"What?...Oh haha real mature." He put his hands on his hips shaking his head

Of course they'd think I meant that kind of 'twerk'...sigh...teenagers.

"Ok ok that's enough jokes over, now let's get to it."

Myles let out a few more stifled laughters before composing himself

"S-sorry Isaac, but you have to admit that was funny."

Isaac narrowed his gaze before whispering

"Maybe a little..." he shook his head it's time to get back on track

"Ok now, we combine the 'twist' of our hip and the whipping of our shoulder to get speed and power again keep the opposite hand up the entire time so in full it looks like this."

Isaac took a few steps to the side when demonstrating this to avoid hitting Myles by accident.

"So remember to keep it at a 90 degree bend and also to keep your elbow in line with your fist and your shoulder in line with your elbow. You don't want to drop your hand like this because when you make contact it'll give it'll cave we want a strong backing with the elbow right behind the fist when it hits it just continues to go right through the target. Ok so once more we have the one which is the jab the two which is the cross and the three which is the hook. The next punch and the last one that I'm going to teach you is just the uppercut. We can do this with the rear and we can do this with the lead similar to the hook and that it keeps a 90 degree bend we're going to do the same thing with the uppercut it's a short range attack and it's just to lift our opponent's head up and then follow up with more punches. So I'm going to demonstrate with the rear very similar to the cross and that we twist our hips, we rotate on the rear foot and we throw the upper cut at the same time."

Myles tried it but was immediately stopped by Isaac

"Ok no. Now what I want you to avoid is 'scraping your knuckles on the ground' as we call it. Alright you don't want to throw those anime style punches, now why do you think?"

Myles just shrugged

"It's because if you do this and your opponent throws a left hook 'pow!' you're gonna get clocked."

"Ohh...opps." Myles sheepishly scratched his head before getting back in the position.

"Instead I want you to release last second you're just gonna do minimal drop and throw right from here. That's what that uppercut should look like, keeping the opposite hand up at all times."

He demonstrated as Myles copied him exactly.

"And the lead looks like this...ok so we have the 1 the 2 the 3 and the uppercut."

He did the full set and Myles copied exactly as taught

"Now we'll just be practicing the punches for the rest of the day and tomorrow I'll teach you the basic kicks."

"Got it!"

Isaac moved back to stand in front of Myles

"Alright Myles now show me what you've got."

Now Myles was getting all the moves right but his punches were still weak. It was almost like he was holding back.

"Your stance is good and your movements are all on point and exact, but you're still not putting enough energy into your punches. What's wrong?"

"I'm trying ok I just don't know how to make my punches stronger."

Hmm? Maybe he just needs a little motivation...I've got it! Isaac thought as an idea popped into his head

"Alright I have an idea it's a little mind trick I use when I need to put more power into my attacks."

"What is it?" Myles tilted his head in confusion

"It's simple..." He gave a slightly evil grin "Just think about the person you hate the most and imagine that's who you're attacking."

"Huh?" Myles looked at him even more confused

"Just try it." He put both hands on the boy's shoulders "Just close your eyes."

He did

"Now think about the person you hate the most in life and think about just how angry they've made you."

Myles thought hard and then...

Why is he still here?

Hey it was your idea to keep him!

Myles' fist clenched as his parents' words echoed in his head

What?! No way why would I want a worthless child like him?!

What use is a kid that can't even talk?

He felt the anger build up inside

What do we do?

Just leave him on the streets tomorrow.

"He'll be someone else's problem"

And in that moment Myles saw not one but both his parents standing in front of him...with those same disgusted looks that were always directed towards Evan.

Now ready he took his stance as did Isaac and with no hesitation delivered a hard jab straight to Isaac which he blocked. But he didn't bother to hide the smirk on his face, now that was a very powerful punch.

Damn! I hate to be who this boy is seeing right now.