But if they go for a heavy-hitting knee or anything that doesn’t fit into the deflection properties of the sabaki, you’ll be totally wide open to that attack.Īdvise: Before you read on, make sure that you’re at least somewhat familiar with the basic concept of defense – like throw escapes and the more advanced ETEG. Most opponents will probably go for fast hand attacks or throws. This requires you to correctly mind-guess (Japanese: yomi) the opponent’s punishment actions. retaliate any single-handed high and mid strike attempts (from punches to elbows, so to speak) and 2. By entering the reversal immediately followed by one or more throw escapes, you 1. With Sabaki Throw Escapes, though, you can directly interfere with the punishment plans of your opponent. What you’d be usually doing at that point is to ETEG to at least avoid the heftier damage options your opponent has. Now, you’re eventually standing there at -9 frames of disadvantage thoroughly sheepishly, knowing that you’re disadvantaged enough for your opponent to start an offense. In hope of netting a counter-hit leading to an easy-damage combo, you’ve pulled off Goh’s powerful knee, but it got blocked. So simply imagine the following or a similar situation. Here is an exemplary rundown on STE in a nutshell. But, whereas the inashi only completes its motion when it successfully connects, the sabaki does always animate wholly whether or not the parry is successful.īefore we go into the input details of STE, let me describe an example situation for better illustration. What is the difference between inashi and sabaki?īoth are moves with deflection properties. But seen in the limitations of the sabakis – and especially Goh’s Kumite Harai here, which will serve us as prime example throughout the article – the technique comes to a justifiable price with a nicely compensating reward. Apart from that, the opponent also has several other options to punish you, including delayed attacks, catch throws, full circulars. And the price for using sabakis instead of reversal is that you have to mind-guess the correct attack type. Goh’s Kumite Harai is a sabaki that parries the following attack types: high punch (HP), high elbow (HE), mid punch (MP), and elbow (EL).Īre Sabaki Throw Escapes (STE) a win/win situation then? Hardly. With a reversal, you’d have to guess between high, mid, or low. Sabakis – and I’m especially referring to Goh’s Kumite Harai here – doesn’t depend on guessing the correct hit level so much, as it parries high- and mid-hitting single-handed attacks. We get a similar effect with sabakis instead of reversals. directly reverse a strike attack depending on the hit level of the incoming, and 2. Thus, VFers who played characters with reversals could use those to 1. In previous installments, the technique of Reversal Throw Escaping (RTE) was already well known and efficiently used by some Akira players. The idea to use sabakis in combination with throw escapes is actually not too far fetched. It’s also a riskier technique than the standard share of classic defensive methods, such as ETEG, because your immunity to attacks depends on the limitations of the sabaki move’s properties. You could call it a passively aggressive technique where a passive situation (you are disadvantaged and, thus, usually forced to defend) can net the defender some serious damage – and turn the tables in a match. Sabaki Throw Escapes open up a new defensive strategy that I haven’t talked about here yet. But what other option do especially Goh players have? I covered ETE and ETEG, Fuzzy Guard and Crouch Fuzzy Guard. So far, my articles about how to and when to defend only touched the standard share of techniques that you can use for a consistency in defense.
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