I was watching Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon last night and saw some techniques in it which I thought would be useful in MKD.

Force Lock Blocking Counters

In one scene where Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi fight at night, Zhang performs a block with her arms across her chest. Michelle counters this by using one arm to press against one of Zhangs arms, trapping both arms and rendering Zhang helpless to any attacks, unless she can use her feet to attack effectively. Whilst pressing on Zhang’s arms, Michelle pushes her and uses her free arm to attack.

In MKD, you’d use this to counter the opponents high block and then maybe headbutt, elbow or knee them. I think adding those three attacks would be cool. You could also opt to use your feet to attack or punch them in the face.

Foot Weapon Blocking

This technique applies to swords mainly as in Crouching Tiger, low sword attacks were countered by having the defending warrior raise their leg and step on the side of the sword, pinning it to the floor allowing them to counter attack. This led to the attacker having to resort to using their free arm to defend or begin another attack with it.

In MKD you’d use this obviously to counter low weapon attacks and some weapons, maybe all, could be broken if stepped on in the right place. This would render them useless. Also, if your weapon is stepped on, you’d have the option to keep hold of it and attack and defend with your free arm, or let go of the weapon and attack as normal. You could then pick your weapon up later.