Training with Raymond was different. Gio could tell almost immediately that the pace was going to be much slower.
Naturally, they weren't going to do anything wild. Their actions had to be contained to the scale of what could be allowed within the zephyr.
However, that was not the reason for the change of pace.
It was because Raymond's focus wasn't strength at all.
Every member of the team who helped Gio tried to comprehensively improve his base strength. There wasn't anything wrong with their approach as it was the best way to prepare him for real combat scenarios.
Once one reached a higher level, it was the same with Sequences. Individual training was always great, but the best way to see qualitative changes in one's abilities was to use them over and over again, pushing them to their absolute limits.