Uma Musume: Become a Legendary Trainer

Chapter 207 Too Tired

Kitahara, who was a little further away, did not hear the conversation between Oguruma and Maruzenski. Even if he had heard it, his reaction would probably have only made the two horse girls mutter "As expected".

He was standing from the perspective of a trainer, and thought that it would be more helpful for Oguruma to have basic swimming training taught by Maruzenski, who is also a horse girl, step by step.

First of all, there is a very obvious difference in height. Kitahara is quite tall. When standing next to Oguruma, he is more than a head taller than her.

The difference in height may lead to misunderstanding of some demonstration movements in Oguruma's eyes during coaching, such as the amplitude and rhythm of the arms sliding back and forth, and the movement of the legs kicking the water.

Generally speaking, for leg movements like when swimming, it is best to use less force when retracting the legs, ensuring that the heels are close to the buttocks, the calves are as close to the thighs as possible, and the entire calf's front and back range of motion is within the projection range of the thigh.

The leg swinging movement at this angle allows the stronger thighs to block the water flow in front, and the calves encounter less resistance when contracting, so they do not need to exert as much force.

The action of flipping your feet works on a similar principle.

As the most critical part of the leg movement when swimming, turning the feet directly affects the kicking action. Theoretically, when kicking, you should ensure that the soles of the feet are hooked up, the soles of the feet are facing upwards, the toes are facing outwards, and both feet are turned outwards.

When swimming, the calf and foot movements look like the English letter "W" from the back, which can fully exert the power of kicking water and create a stronger forward thrust.

The problem is still the height difference. Given the height difference between Kitahara and Oguruma, even if the former demonstrates in person, the latter will misjudge some details of the movements at first due to the visual difference caused by the height, and will need additional explanation.

Similar problems are unlikely to occur between Oguruma and Maruzenski. One of them is 1 meters tall and the other is 67 meters tall. Although there is a slight difference, when it comes to swimming movements, the difference does not seem to be too big.

More importantly, as a horse girl, if Oguruma has any questions about the movements of certain body positions, she can directly touch the corresponding positions on Maruzenski's body.

With clear inquiries, Maruzenski can also give the most accurate answers accordingly.

It’s not that Kitahara is embarrassed by physical contact. As a trainer, there is no need for him to avoid this aspect.

If you give up because of this mentality, you won't be able to do many things in your daily training.

The problem is that Oguruma is his horse girl, but Maruzenski is here to assist him.

In this case, even if you have been together for a long time, it always feels strange and inconvenient to rashly use someone's body as a teaching tool.

Just like now, I can just watch the two horse girls communicate and teach each other.

And probably due to their racial talents, horse girls have excellent looks and figures.

Watching the two of them talking while touching and pinching each other for the purpose of teaching, Kitahara thought it was very pleasing to the eye and a rare benefit as a trainer, so there was no need to disturb them.

Perhaps because he has been in contact with Maruzenski for a long time, he does occasionally have the urge to take some action.

However, this was just a thought. He had already made plans in his mind. If they spent too much time on basic teaching, he would still go over to supervise them.

Fortunately, he only had to wait for a short time before he saw Oguruma and Maruzenski talking for a while, demonstrating many swimming postures to each other, asking for advice or correcting each other several times, and soon they started swimming towards their destination.

After leaving, Xiao Limao didn't forget to say hello.

"I'm sorry, Kitahara, I was delayed for a while because of me, but I'm fine now, so just look forward to it!"

When she shouted this, she was already able to float steadily on the water without the help of Maruzenski.

Afterwards, she confidently swung her arms and legs, splashing water more than half a meter high on her sides and behind her, and swam forward like a heavily armed battleship.

“Isn’t this… too exaggerated…?”

Seeing that this horse girl of hers had solved her mentality problems and basic posture problems, and suddenly displayed such an amazing momentum, Kitahara was a little dazzled and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

“It’s a bit exaggerated.”

At some point, Maruzenski had swam over here from Oguruma.

Amid the startling noise made by Oguruma, she vaguely heard Kitahara's sigh and couldn't help but laugh after joining in.

"However, since Oguruma is very strong, and he doesn't have any particularly good swimming skills, it's not surprising that he would perform so exaggeratedly."

"If she wants to swim normally, I'm afraid she'll have to swim for a while longer."

"Fortunately, this kind of training is not for swimming competitions, but just to train endurance. When she feels tired after swimming for a while, she will naturally want to find ways to save energy."

"It will be fine to continue coaching her then."

"Hey, don't just stand there like an idiot. Sit a little forward and make some room for me."

Maruzenski suddenly changed the subject, and his tone was somewhat genuine and fake. "Don't you think it's rude for you to sit on the motorboat by yourself and leave a lady like me in the water?"

...You are just trying to be lazy again, right?

He subconsciously complained in his heart, but Kitahara did not refuse.

She had just helped to instruct her horse girl, and now Kuromakō only needed to swim along the planned route. She could indeed take a motorboat with him.

So, he sighed silently, moved forward in the driver's seat, motioned for Maruzenski to sit on it, and then Kitahara drove the motorboat to catch up with Oguruma who had already swam out about a hundred meters.

The entire swimming training was conducted between several small islands, and the distance arranged for each stage was not short.

For humans, swimming training of 5 to 6 kilometers twice a day is considered of moderate intensity.

For Uma Musume, especially those with excellent physique like Oguruma, the first stage of training alone is 3 kilometers.

This is also the distance between the starting point seaside and the first destination island.

The subsequent training was almost the same. For Oguruma, at least there was no problem with his physical endurance.

Unlike previous training on the runway, because we are far away from the shallow sea, the noise of swimming and motorboats, coupled with the sound of waves and wind, the whole environment is still relatively noisy.

It was naturally impossible to give instant guidance through words as usual, so at each stage, Kitahara carefully observed Oguruma's swimming condition, and after arriving at the island, he analyzed her performance in detail with her.

If there are any aspects that need direct correction during the process, you need to speed up to the front and signal her to stop, then go into the water with Maruzenski and teach her the correct way to swim.

Such a training schedule will definitely take more time.

In addition, Komiyayama set off earlier with Tamamo Cross, Kobayashi and Aldan, so after the entire special training, the horse girls who trained together were actually divided into two groups.

The former completed the special training faster, while Kitahara, Oguri and Maruzenski took about an hour longer to get back to the starting point from the final destination island. When they set off, Oguri was swimming in the water, while Kitahara and Maruzenski were sitting on the motorboat.

When we came back, Xiaolimao was also sitting on the motorboat.

The reason was that it was the first time she swam for such a long time without the help of a float board, and even with her strong physique, it had reached its limit, and it was impossible for her to swim back.

"Uncle, Oguri! And President Maruzen! You guys are so slow, we've been waiting for you for a long time... Hey? What's wrong with Oguri?"

As soon as we reached the shore, before we had time to get off the boat, we heard a joking shout from the other side, which then turned into surprise in an instant.

Together with Maruzenski, he helped Oguruma down from the motorboat. With a glance, he saw Tamamo Cross and the others on the other side seemed to be building sand dunes.

It seems that they had completed their training early as Tamamo Cross said, and they felt too bored while waiting, so they played with the sand for a long time.

The sand dune was obviously intended to be built into a castle, and its style was exactly the same as the castle-style academy I stayed in when I went to Europe before.

The "main teaching building" and "teaching area" have been built, and the construction of the "race track" is underway.

It seems that not only did they wait for quite a while, but their patience and skills in building sand castles were also greatly improved.

However, they were not in the mood to continue. Seeing that Xiao Limao, who was usually full of energy, now needed support, they were afraid that something might have happened, so they hurried over to ask.

"What happened? What happened to Xiaoli?"

Having just exclaimed at the sand castle, Tamamo Cross now ran over quickly and asked anxiously again.

Although Xiaowan and Aldan, who followed her closely, didn't have time to say anything, from their wide eyes and slightly parted lips, it was clear that they had the same idea as Tamamo Cross.

Of course, Komiya-san couldn't run as fast as Uma Musume and the others, but he was trying his best to catch up.

Then, without waiting for Kitahara to explain, she hurriedly approached Oguruma, stared at the latter's face carefully for a moment, and then reached out and touched her cheeks, armpits, wrists and other places.

"Huh - no cold sweat, pupils and lips are normal, heartbeat is a little faster, but it's a normal reaction after exercise."

After a quick inspection, Komiyayama was visibly relieved, and then he began to explain to Tamamo Cross and the others on behalf of Kitahara.

"Don't worry, Xiaoli is fine. She's just too tired from the special training. I'm afraid she can't even walk now."

Upon hearing this, Tamamo Cross and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Kitahara and Maruzenski also reacted and explained.

"What Komiya-san said is right. This is the first time that Oguri has swum without the help of a float board, and each stage requires swimming several kilometers in one breath. It is indeed much more tiring than normal training."

Letting Oguruma put his arm around his shoulders and lean on him, Kitahara smiled and said, "She really worked hard to have such a great performance."

After Kitahara gave some encouragement, Oguruma's eyes quickly lit up, but after moving her lips, she didn't say anything.

Maruzenski smiled and continued, "Maybe next time you train together... I mean if you keep the same progress and can see each other, you will know how hard Oguri is working."

"Did you know that when Xiaoli swims, the water splashes this high?"

"If you saw it, you would be shocked." Maruzenski said with a smile, putting his hands across his waist and indicating the height of the splash made by Oguruma when swimming.

"Is this true? This is too exaggerated..."

Tamamo Cross was surprised for a moment, but soon he started to laugh because his friend was fine. "But if you put it this way, Oguri's current swimming level is really... really..."

“There is really a lot of room for improvement.”

Trying hard to come up with a euphemism to describe Ogurtori, she then said with a smile, "If she was a good swimmer, she wouldn't have made such an exaggerated splash."

“It’s just like diving.”

Compared to Oguruma, the swimming level in Tamamo Cross, Little Bay and Aldan is much better.

Just like what was said before, the size of the splash means the degree of force applied to the water. Theoretically, if you just want to propel yourself forward, you don't need too much strength and the splash won't be very big.

This is the same principle as diving. The more scientific and standard the posture is, the smaller the impact of breaking the water surface and the smaller the impact on oneself.

"So, President Maruzen said that we should train together. I think Oguri still needs to work harder!"

"But we will work with you, so don't fall too far behind us in this regard!"

After giving him encouragement as a joke, Tamamo Cross patted his belly again.

"Okay, since Xiaoli has nothing to do, can we go eat?"

"If you're this tired, you must be hungry, right?"

"Hehe, the staff here were shocked by how much Xiaoli eats at the beginning. Now Xiaoli, who is extremely hungry, eats several times more than usual."

"I'm afraid they're going to be scared again!"

After confirming that Oguruma was not seriously injured, the other members also felt relieved. When they heard Tamamo Cross's joke, they couldn't help laughing out loud.

It was indeed time for dinner, so after everyone packed up their things at the beach, they headed towards the holiday estate.

Kitahara naturally carried Oguruma on his back. After all, the latter was so tired that he couldn't even speak, and it would be difficult for him to walk back.

Umamusume has a very strong physique, but her structure is not much different from that of a human.

For a girl of about sixteen or seventeen like Oguruma, the weight is not as exaggerated as her strength, so it feels normal to carry it on your back.

In this situation, Beiyuan was only slightly slower than his companions and was slightly at the end of the team returning to the manor, but he did not feel very tired.

He originally thought that Little Chestnut was probably so impatient to eat that he had no mood or energy to talk.

However, when he was about to see the manor, he suddenly heard an apologetic voice behind him.

"I'm sorry, Kitahara..."

"I failed to fulfill the agreement before today's training..."

(End of this chapter)