The staff learn your habits, the walk-on waits for your tap, and the club opens a practice court

Four answers to one phone report:
- THE READ: repeat a lane and the opponent anticipates it; break the habit
  and it is wrong-footed for that ball — scaled by rung, so surprise is the
  weapon that opens the ladder past the HEAD COACH (TUNE block THE READ).
- The opponent walk-on is a real modal now (head, punchline, tap to dismiss)
  in arcade, tournament and training — readable without a clock.
- THE TRAINING COURT: third card under ZOMBIE TENNIS, pick any rung, one
  game at a time, the felled body walks straight back on, nothing banks,
  bleeding out is a popup instead of a death. mode_train.png rolled in the
  banner style.
- MOVEMENT READS: sprinting feet kick per-court dust and fast bodies leave
  a two-ghost speed streak (trailMin gates both; feel verdict pending).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

src/main.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Module map: config (tuning/constants) · state (mutable game state) · gameplay (logic/update)
 //             render (camera/drawing) · input (keys/touch) · audio (sfx/umpire) · panel (T tuning UI)
 
-import { TUNE, COURTS, TOURS, KITS, SKINS, MODES, MENU, DIFFS, EATEN_RESTART, DONE_RESTART, WEAPONS, bossArt, CUP_ROUNDS, matchFoe } from './config.js';
+import { TUNE, COURTS, TOURS, KITS, SKINS, MODES, MENU, DIFFS, EATEN_RESTART, DONE_RESTART, WEAPONS, bossArt, CUP_ROUNDS, matchFoe, LADDER } from './config.js';
 import { P, O, ball, score, G, setupPoint, sendBoy, selectCourt, selectTour, selectKit, selectSkin } from './state.js';
 import { update, restartRun, keyPressed, solveShot, inServeBox, inCourt, forceZombies, startGore, splatPoint, deliverTin, selectWeapon, grantWeapon, showModal, dismissModal, flickTarget, dragServe, toggleTestMode } from './gameplay.js';
 import { startDuel, resolveInterlude, startHorde, startBossFight, endBossFight, startDrill, endDrill, startMatch, endMatch, startBench, endBench, FALL, benchFall, startNetVs, endNetVs } from './beats.js';
@@ -383,10 +383,24 @@ document.getElementById('brBack').addEventListener('click', () => {
 });
 document.getElementById('cupGo').addEventListener('click', () => start('cup'));
 
+// ---- THE TRAINING PICKER (Oliver, 2026-08-28: "ein Trainingsbereich — Auswahl des Gegners, ein
+// Spiel, tap to replay, bis man keine Lust mehr hat"). The whole ladder face-up, one tile per rung,
+// wearing the same z_*head crop the draw and the walk-on wear. Tap = start — the wizard's own
+// tap-advances rule; the SERVE UP button routed here instead of starting (see cStart below).
+let trainRung = 1;
+const trainList = document.getElementById('trainList');
+for (let n = 1; n <= LADDER; n++) {
+  const f = matchFoe(n), b = document.createElement('button');
+  b.innerHTML = `<img src="${foeArt(f)}" alt=""><b>${f.name}</b><i>RUNG ${n}</i>`;
+  b.addEventListener('click', () => { trainRung = n; start('train'); });
+  trainList.appendChild(b);
+}
+document.getElementById('trBack').addEventListener('click', () => go('setup'));
+
 // Which RECORD BOOK a run mode writes to. The four run modes share three books — the arcade ladder
 // and the tournament are both zombie tennis and are counted together (see the record-shape note in
 // stats.endRun). Lived inline in three places before the world board grew tabs of its own.
-const boardFor = m => m === 'zombie' || m === 'cup' ? stats.MODE_MATCH
+const boardFor = m => m === 'zombie' || m === 'cup' || m === 'train' ? stats.MODE_MATCH
   : m === 'classic' ? stats.MODE_CLASSIC : stats.MODE_GORE;
 
 // what the setup footer says you are about to play, and what it is worth beating
@@ -404,7 +418,9 @@ function summary() {
     ? m.name + ' · ' + (DIFFS.find(d => d.id === pickedDiff) || DIFFS[1]).name : m.name;
   document.getElementById('sSum').innerHTML =
     `<span>${name} · ${t.name.replace(' SINGLES', '')} · ${c.name}</span>`
-    + `<span>${best ? best + unit + ' TO BEAT' : 'FIRST RUN'}</span>`;
+    // training banks nothing, so there is no mark to beat and the footer must not invent one
+    + `<span>${m.id === 'train' ? 'NOTHING AT STAKE — JUST REPS'
+        : best ? best + unit + ' TO BEAT' : 'FIRST RUN'}</span>`;
 }
 
 // The splash carries ONE number, on the STATS button. A boxed BEST RUN / WORLD RANK bar across the
@@ -440,6 +456,8 @@ function start(modeId = pickedMode) {
   // ...and the cup carries the draw the bracket screen just made. Null (the #cup back door) still
   // means "roll it yourself", which is what the mode did before the screen existed.
   if (modeId === 'cup') { intoSplatter(); startMatch(true, cupPicks); }
+  // training: the picked rung rides the match machinery with the ladder parked (beats.startMatch)
+  if (modeId === 'train') { intoSplatter(); startMatch(false, null, trainRung); }
 }
 let stPeriod = 'all', stMode = stats.MODE_GORE;
 // the stats screen opens on the mode you last PICKED to play — that is the one whose numbers you
@@ -523,6 +541,7 @@ nbName.addEventListener('keydown', e => { if (e.key === 'Enter') document.getEle
 // carries its own start button, so this stays the one place a run begins from the setup screen.
 document.getElementById('cStart').addEventListener('click', () => {
   if (pickedMode === 'cup') { buildBracket(); go('bracket'); return; }
+  if (pickedMode === 'train') { go('train'); return; }   // the picker starts it — tap advances
   start();
 });
 for (const id of ['mBack', 'stBack', 'rkBack', 'scBack'])
@@ -713,6 +732,7 @@ addEventListener('keydown', e => {
 // no-ops on an empty run, so closing the tab at the menu writes nothing.
 addEventListener('pagehide', () => {
   if (G.mode !== 'splatter') return;
+  if (G.match && G.match.train) return; // the training court banks nothing, walked out on or not
   // ...tagged with the mode that was being played, and carrying THAT mode's two headline numbers —
   // see the record-shape note in stats.endRun. A match abandoned mid-rally is a match run.
   if (G.match) stats.endRun(G.match.opp - 1, score.games[0] + score.games[1], G.splatT, false, stats.MODE_MATCH);