Certainly it was mind games, Josh knew how to threw someone off, and this was part of it. He kept focused though, at all times. For all the mind games, for all the playing around, he was dead serious. A warrior, an Echani, the art of combat was important, and when it came fight time, Josh was always doing his best to remain at the top of his game. Calmly deflecting each blast being fired at him, and while it wasn't easy to bat her saber away, he would simply strike again with even more power. His power was difficult to match by many humanoids, though it wasn't unbeatable.
His plan though, had worked when her own strikes came with less power due to his tactics regarding the bolts. Every chance he got to deflect, he would deflect toward her, or move to have the blasters try to hit her in the back instead of him, forcing her to watch her back in order to continue this without getting pelted by holo bolts.
She almost got him though, with the tactic of extending her saber. But Josh had a trick of his own. His own saber would increase in length just a little, enough to block her own. His lightsaber could be adjusted to accomodate for his own height and size, and it helped in this case. A small grin crossed his lips at that, before he would immediately go for what he saw as an opening as he would break the clash and slash at her hips horizontally.
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