The Onion

After our meeting today, we were talking a little bit about how strikes blossom, "like a flower", as our friend Brad described after he had finished whacking us all a bit. Eros described the internal feeling of a deep strike getting stuck in the body as an onion rather than a flower--he had just gotten hit and had that lingering internal discomfort (he had a slight look of disgust on his face when he said the word "onion"). I think he created a good piece of terminology for us--I will see if I can do the word justice with a hastily created analogy:

Onions have layers (like parfaits, as Eddie Murphy points out in Shrek). Onions also release a nasty vapor when peeling away the layers, causing the eyes to tear up. Onions only cook well when peeled into their layers--e.g. sautee-ing onions with a steak. Ok, I got nothing... sorry. Nevertheless, "onion" will be added into our study group's Systema dictionary.