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> it’s pretty much always best to focus on the hips, since all major/significant motion starts there. Not a martial artist, but I'm sure it starts with the in

• lljk_kennedy 4y ago
  You’ll end up biting on feints - or worse, get hit - if you look at their eyes. A good fighter might look at your legs and begin moving as if to throw a leg kick, but throw a hook to the head instead. If you read their advertised intent and try to check the leg kick, you get knocked out by the hook. In MMA fights / sparring, I’ve found touch is the biggest thing to understand intent. A hand on the shoulder can feel where the opponent is moving. Like a race car driver who feels the slide through their butt and corrects the slide before their eyes are telling them they’re sliding.
• Godel_unicode 4y ago
  At least in Basketball defense all about looking at hips, eyes lie.