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"Right," Ender said

The other boys started to co off walls was movement, not combat

"There is no combat without movement," Ender said They fell silent and hated Bean a little s frozen like this, can you push off walls?"

No one dared answer, for fear they'd be wrong

"Bean?" asked Ender

"I've never tried it, but maybe if you faced the wall and doubled over at the waist--"

"Right but wrong Watch , ainst the wall Usually, when you push off you have to push doard, so you string out your body behind you like a string bean, right?"

Laughter

"But withdoard frohs, only now it pushes my shoulders and my feet backward, shoots out ing out behind me Watch this"

Ender forced his hips forward, which shot him away from the wall; in a s doard, rushing toward the opposite wall He landed on his knees, flipped over on his back, and jackknifed off the wall in another direction "Shootin the air as he took a course roughly parallel to the boys along the far wall Because he was spinning, they couldn't get a continuous beam on him

He thawed his suit and hooked hi on for the first half hour today Build up sos as a shield and control your ood up close, but far away, they can't hurt you if you're spinning--at that distance the beam has to hit the sa it can't happen Now freeze yourself and get started"

"Aren't you going to assign lanes?" asked a boy

"No I' into each other and learning how to deal with it all the ti formations, and then I'll usually have you bump into each other on purpose Now move!"

When he said move, they moved

Ender was the last one out after practice, since he stayed to help soood teachers, but the inexperienced soldiers fresh out of their launch groups were cos at the sas, they had no troublein midair, but to launch in one direction, fire in another, spin twice, rebound with a jackknife off a wall, and coht direction--that ay beyond them Drill drill drill, that was all Ender would be able to do with theies and for if the soldiers didn't kno to handle themselves in battle