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Feints and fakes are actions that deceive the opponent into reacting in a desired manner. They are a vital part of any attacking strategy. Although the two words "feint" and "fake" are interchangeable, as they relate to fighting, there is a slight difference in their meanings:

Feint

A feint is some other body movement, expression, or sound made to deceive the opponent. The movement in a feint is not necessarily an attack nor does the movement need to be toward the opponent. A feint may be an eye movement or pretending to be tired or injured. For example, "I will feign Joe into believing I intend to rear leg kick by shifting my weight to my front leg." Everything else being equal, the fighter with the best feinting and faking skills will win. Some types of feints are:

• False movement. Move head or a limb or shift weight to draw opponent's attention.

• Eye misdirection. Quickly glance in one direction while moving in another direction.

• Change of pace. After a furious attack sequence, pretend to be resting and then attack again when opponent relaxes.

• Psychological. Psyche out opponent using pre-match eye focus. Before you match actually begins, slouch and look unconcerned, then at "Sejak" suddenly change into an alert, fierce fighter.

Feints and fakes provide a way to find an opponent’s weaknesses by discovering his or her preferred responses and style of movement. The idea is to make an opponent react to an imaginary attack to create an opening or to draw the opponent into responding so you may anticipate and counter.

Have you even been in your car stopped at a stoplight with your foot on the brake? You know you are stopped, and yet, when the car next to you rolls back a few inches, for a split second, you think you are moving and push harder on the break. This is way feints and fakes work; you make your opponent react to a perceived, but false, threat.

Feints and fakes are useful in drawing out an opponent who always lets you attack first. The opponent may be tricked into attacking by offering him or her a target in a way that is not obvious, such as slightly raising your guard to invite a mid level attack.

Since fakes are uncompleted techniques, to be effective, they must look like genuine attacks, such as raising the knee and setting up for a front kick, so opponent will react by lowering his or her guard. To complete the strategy, you then attack an undefended high target. Alternatively, after raising your knee for a middle front kick to drop the opponent's guard, you could change the kick to a roundhouse to the unguarded high section. When using punching techniques, fake with one hand and then strike with the other, or fake with one hand and then attack with same hand.

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