What's a Sabaki?

I have already asked someone about this, but I wanted to ask other people to be sure. Does anyone know what a Sabaki is?
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'Lo. Search is nice. Now to spare time:

Sabaki were introduced in VF4. These are regular attacks or motions with attack-deflection properties. The main difference between Sabaki and Reversal/Inashi is that the Sabaki will always animate regardless of the opponent's action, whereas a Reversal or Inashi will only activate when it connects successfully against an opponent's attack.

Sabakis can be further classed into two types: attack or reversal. Sabaki-attacks are, as the name suggests, normal attacks which have deflection properties. Sabaki-reversals are simply motions which will reverse an opponents attack, usually with no damage. The reason they're not called Sabaki-inashi is because the opponent isn't staggered as a result, and thus cannot recover from the situation.

/KiwE

 

Thanks a million, KiwE. I never would've guessed that. Oh, and the statement below the dashes, I mean it.
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Life, still a poor substitute for video games.

 

Re: 'Lo. Search is nice. Now to spare time:

Is Lei-Fei's + a sabaki?

 

Re: 'Lo. Search is nice. Now to spare time:

yes it is..

 

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