offensive stance
Ready to strike
An offensive stance is a physical posture adopted in preparation for attack rather than defense.
In combat sports, martial arts, and military contexts, it positions the body to deliver strikes or advance aggressively: He dropped into an offensive stance, weight forward on the balls of his feet.
The term extends to any confrontational or aggressive positioning in competition or conflict.
- aggressiveHostile and confrontational
- attackAggressive act against another
- combativeInclined toward conflict
- forwardOnward in direction
- hostileAggressively unfriendly
assault · charge · strike · fighting · ready position · belligerent · threatening · provocative · advance · lunge · crouch · ready · martial · warrior · defiant · confrontational · in your face · pugnacious
- combat skillsgrappling, striking, blocking, parrying, dodging
- stancesready position, en garde, crouch, squat, lunge
- boxing stancesorthodox, southpaw, peek-a-boo, crouch, high guard
- alert levelsDEFCON, red alert, orange alert, yellow alert, elevated
- tactical positionsdefensive position, forward position, sniper position, prone position, fallback position
offensive stancedefensive stance
defensive position · fallback position · bunker mentality · holding pattern · neutral stance
offensive stancedefensive stance
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