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Due to both of them being the biggest soldiers in the 141, Stone and Ghost very often spar together. They spar together because both are scared of accidentally hurting the others in the 141, though they still do spar with the others. It's just that they know they both can handle it if one of them accidentally gets their shoulder dislocated (fun fact, Stone's major joints have been dislocated and reset so many times that he can just dislocate a joint without feeling pain and reset it easily).
It's a sight to behold each time, neither knowing which one is going to win the spar. They're both very agile for two big men and they both try and tire the other one out, so they're often close in skill, with the deciding factor of who will win the match depending on what time of day it is.
If it's early in the day, morning more likely, than Stone is more likely to win because he wakes up at four in the morning (unhinged man) and thus he's more awake than Ghost is. If it is later in the day, afternoon or evening, Ghost is more likely to win, especially if he hasn't been sent on any missions that day. Due to him not being sent on any missions during the day, he's often either working in his office or sharpening his skills in the training center, but Stone has been in the infirmary for hours, running around to patch up soldiers. His stamina, though great, has already been more depleted than Ghost's.
That's not to say it's clear-cut which one will win a sparring match depending on the time of day, nothing is ever that predictable. It's just a guide that the others use to muse about who might win the sparring match that day. Speaking of the others talking about who will win, Soap often says Ghost will win while Gaz cheers on Stone to win. Price does not care who wins the sparring match, he's just praying neither of them injure each other enough to put them out of commission for a few days.
Onto the actual sparring; as I said before, both of them are agile and will do their best not to rely too much on brute strength. This is especially true with Stone, considering he's the heaviest out of the entire 141. He's the tallest and thus needs a lot of food to have so much fat on him as he does, but it doesn't slow him down as much as one would think.
His style of sparring is mostly dodging and weaving, because he has often heard from superiors that he has very little control over how much of his strength goes into his kicks and punches. He will throw in a few here and there, mostly when he finds himself getting tired from the dodging and the weaving. His main goal is to wear out Ghost, which is ironically Ghost's goal too—to wear out Stone.
It's a battle of which one is going to tire out first, though it's often Ghost who seems to do so. Stone has rigorous training from his father who was not kind to him, even if he is the one who technically tires out first, one would never know he was tired. Unlike Ghost, who Stone can see the subtle signs of fatigue showing through Ghost's body language even if Ghost tries his best not to show it.
Once he sees a hint of exhaustion in Ghost's body language, Stone often foregoes the dodging and weaving. He switches from his agility to using his brute strength, ramming into Ghost when he knows Ghost is too tired to be able to get out of his hold. He never punches or kicks Ghost in this instance, he merely plows into the shorter man and gets Ghost onto the mat. He'll cage Ghost in until Ghost knows he can't get out of the hold and yields.
While it is often that Stone wins the spars, Ghost will win if he manages to sweep Stone off his feet. As with any large man, Stone's weakness is his legs. He's not as sturdy as he likes when he's sparring, especially when he's dodging and weaving. Once Stone is on his knees, if Ghost manages to just knock him down a bit and not fully down onto the sparring mat, then it's easier for Ghost to ram into him.
Stone's stronger, so Ghost has to wrap his arms and legs around the man as best as he can to pin him down. That's where the time of day really helps in Ghost's favor, because depending on how busy the infirmary is and what time of day it is, Stone is again more likely to be more tired than Ghost.
No matter who wins the spar, it's a testament of their strength and skill, the years they've spent in the military. It's why recruits will watch them spar, to see the different techniques they both use on each other. Though, this means the recruits are often seeing Stone beat Ghost—their Lieutenant—in a sparring match.
Whenever Ghost feels like the recruits are getting too cocky from seeing Stone beat him in sparring matches, he'll challenge Stone to do a shooting contest. Stone is skilled enough to be a sniper, but he's obviously not skilled enough to beat Ghost in a shooting contest. He'll sharpen his shooting skill, of course he would, but he's more focused on being the best Corpsman he can be which means improving more of his medical skill than his shooting skill. Hence why it's always Ghost who wins the shooting contests, and thus reminds the recruits that he is in fact still one of the best of the best.
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