Seme

Seme is a type of psychological pressure that can be exerted by the movement of users of the Active Yin Style.

Description
Seme is a term used to describe how Active Yin Style users try to influence how their opponent behaves and reacts with their own movements and attacks. When using Seme a user must become observant of their opponent's movements and reacting accordingly. This in turn limits their foe's options of counter-attacking, defending, or reacting because of how it will disrupt the opponents sense of confidence and resolution giving way to panic and frustration.

If successful the user's passive movements will become much more threatening to the opponent so it will be much more likely for them to act recklessly and fall back on their habits because of the overwhelming panic and frustration. From here, it is easy to use one's own movements to play on this to influence how their opponent behaves and reacts. The best way to describe Seme is it is like a more subtle form of peer pressure, but in the context of fighting and using mainly actions instead of words.

Trivia

 * The technique was inspired by Seme.