The Chinese, of course, were not without resources of their own. So there were no more victories as easy as that over the Bonking Heads. Laks lost some fights against wushu stick fighters who knew what they were doing—and who, he realized, had spent time watching videos of Laks’s earlier duels. "Opponent-specific training" was what Major Raju called that. Laks now had to do it too if he didn’t want to fall off the leaderboard.