Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 11 Amazing Flexibility and Adaptability

Although I knew she was gifted, especially in terms of flexibility... But isn't this a bit too flexible? What level of flexibility is this...

Under Kitahara's surprised gaze, Oguruma was moving his shoulders.

Her movements were simple. She raised her arms horizontally, made a chest expansion exercise, and used her elbows to pull her forearms behind her back.

However, the pull was too exaggerated.

For most people, the best chest expansion exercise is to let the elbows slightly pass the back, roughly about ten degrees back from the position parallel to the back.

Oguruma's elbows were almost completely folded and pulled behind his back. The distance between them was only as far as a fist. It seemed that if the elbows were a little closer, they would touch each other.

While doing this chest expansion exercise, seeing that Kitahara did not respond to the question, Oguruma tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

"Why is the trainer looking at me like that? Is there something wrong with me?"

Surprised by this exaggerated flexibility, Kitahara answered Oguruma's question without thinking too much.

"...Ah, it's not that there's anything wrong, I just didn't expect that your body is so flexible."

At this time, Xiaolimao changed her movements. She held her right arm with her left arm and stretched her right arm towards the left side of her body.

"Excellent flexibility? Is the trainer talking about me? And what is flexibility?" She was even more confused.

"Well, of course I'm talking about you. Are there any other horse girls here?"

Kitahara asked the question in a somewhat amused tone, and suddenly felt that before in the office, he had been explaining competitions and training to Oguruma by rote, making the other person drowsy, and perhaps he could try to supplement his knowledge with the help of specific examples.

So he continued with the topic of "flexibility":
"Flexibility refers to the mobility of the limbs, joints, torso and other parts of the body. The greater the range of motion, the greater the flexibility, just like you are now." He pointed at Oguruma.
Oguruma's posture changed again. She seemed to be bending down, supporting her lower back with both hands, and her upper body was bent backwards like a bow, as if she wanted to fold her body upside down.

"Look, you can bend your waist to this extent, but not all horse girls can do it. It can even be said that your body flexibility is rare even among the top horse girls."

"...Oh, I understand a little bit now." After moving his waist, Xiao Limao stood up and nodded, then became confused again. "If you are very flexible, what is the use of it?"

Kitahara suddenly laughed.

"It has so many uses. To put it simply, for example, you can adapt to tracks of different lengths and different textures of tracks."

"In addition to the wide adaptability of length and field conditions, the flexible body can also give you stronger explosive power, allowing your instantaneous acceleration to far exceed that of most horse girls."

In addition to combining the professional knowledge of this world, Kitahara also referred to the experience of the prototype of Oguruma and the setting of Uma Musume in another world to make this evaluation.

The Oguri in another world can run in most races, including her debut in the 800m, the Pegasus Stakes at 1600m, the Daily Crown at 1800m, the Emperor's Autumn Viewing at 2000m, the Japan Cup at 2400m, and the Arima Kinen at 2500m. Her victories in various different venues are proof of her wide range of distance adaptability.

In terms of explosive power, Oguruma has an extremely famous "last kick", which is the explosive level within the last few hundred meters of the track. More than once, she has relied on this explosive power to win the championships of various top competitions.

She also has what can be said to be a unique "second-stage final kick", which is the talent of increasing her speed again when she is about 200 meters away from the finish line.

In the game, this talent is designed to be Oguruma's "inherent skill", which is commonly known as the "ultimate move" by players.

"Victory agitation".

Effect: When you are in the front in the last 200 meters, you can open up a path and break through a little easier.

Trigger conditions: Rank ≥ 2, Rank ≤ 5, Rank ≤ 50%, Remaining distance ≤ 201 meters, Remaining distance ≥ 199 meters. Generally speaking, most horse girls will start sprinting at the end of the race, that is, after the fourth corner, and will use all their strength at this time.

Oguruma is a bit of an exception. Due to the "Victory Inspiration", she can rarely perform a second acceleration, thus greatly ensuring victory.

Originally, when Kitahara looked at this information and settings from the perspective of real horse racing, games, and animation, he only had a concept.

Seeing the flexibility of Oguruma's body with his own eyes at this moment, he completely understood that Oguruma's wide adaptability and secondary acceleration ability in another world were largely due to this exaggerated flexibility.

"I see. The so-called flexibility is like treating the whole body as a spring. The better the flexibility, the greater the degree of stretching of the limbs and torso, the greater the force that can be stored and exerted, and the wider the range of adaptability."

While explaining to Oguruma, Kitahara also gained some understanding himself.

But he soon discovered that although Oguruma was extremely talented in all aspects, his understanding of theoretical knowledge was obviously difficult to describe.

"Hmm... I didn't quite understand." She honestly admitted that she didn't understand.

Kitahara had been hit by Oguruma's learning ability in the office before, but now he seemed to be immune to it. He was not disappointed at all, but smiled and said:

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. I think it would be more appropriate for you to listen to the explanation after the actual combat. This way you will understand it better."

As he spoke, he began to walk towards the other end of the track, waving the stopwatch in his hand, "Then let's get ready to start running. I see that you've almost finished your warm-up exercises just now."

Xiao Limao suddenly became excited, "Yeah! Okay, I'm ready, we can start anytime!"

She struck a running start pose.

As he walked towards the other end of the track, Kitahara did not forget to pay attention to Ogurimao. When he saw Ogurimao's posture, he was surprised.

…It’s just like in another world. Compared to the average horse girl, her body is too low…

Just as Kitahara thought, Oguruma took a starting position with her body's center of gravity very low, so low that it made people doubt whether her legs could move smoothly.

However, considering her exaggerated body flexibility, there shouldn't be any problem, and with this posture, the wind resistance will be very small...

Thinking about this, Kitahara continued walking while raising his arms and voice.

"Let's run the 800 meters first. Look, little Limao, over there is the finish line of the 800 meters. When I get there and wave my hand, you start running from the flagpole over here."

Ogurimao looked in the direction Kitahara pointed, then looked at the flagpole beside him.

She didn't say anything, but her expression changed from her usual dullness to a sudden and extremely fierce one.

That attitude was as if she was not standing on the track of a training ground, but on the battlefield, ready to go into battle at any time.

Because they were too far away, Kitahara didn't see the change in Oguruma's expression. He just walked to the location of the 800-meter pole on the track and looked at the stopwatch in his hand.

...The best result of Fujimasa March 800m practice was 51.7 seconds...

After determining the shortest record on the stopwatch, Kitahara cleared the record at the top, looked towards the starting point, took a deep breath, and pressed the start button on the stopwatch while waving his arms.

Come on, let me see your speed, Xiaolimao...

(End of this chapter)