fighting against hazama is a challenge itself ;D a friend of mine mains hazama and as we have more matches, I started to play more defensive ;D
I'm not sure why but I think I lost my confidence with the range of my manten against hazama's drive
at the begining of the match he would have back dashed/back IAD to get more space and after that he baits me using uroboros.. air borne approach is surely futile against him(I think) but direct rushdown seems so wrong too since I can't block uroboros on reaction when I rush down and hazama launches his snakes. unless I was intending to do it, mayube my reactions is just too slow
anyway, that's for approaching, but when I got comboed and I started to tech out of it as it ends on the usual j.214b which kicks me down to the ground, I realize that on wake up, hazama has plenty of option to make an opening
from what I saw from my friend, he either gashaishou, grab, bait for SRK, or just spam 5a/2a. normals can be blocked, grab can be rejected(even though I suck hardd at it), but if gashaishou?? meh...what should I do? he told me to jump...and it works, and the next time I jump... I got hit into combo bacause I miss predicted gashaishou
and this is starting to get annoying ;D it's not totally safe to jump, yet it's also dangerous to stand guard on ground, SRK is a gamble....
I believe the mind game is getting deeper but predicting what he's gonna do every time I wake up/tech is like 1/3 chance to escape pressure and gain a momentum to fight back...