Next, and equally important, is mental awareness. Your mind must be sharp in order to pick up on their movement and react accordingly. Additionally, work to control your emotions is needed so that fear, self-doubt, and you ego do not cloud your senses and hinder your performance. Two other attributes that need specific attention are timing and distance. Surely, they are both important anyway, but without them, interception becomes impossible.
Proper timing can be responsible for some of the most devastating attacks.
You can use the momentum from your movement combined with theirs, timing it so that they collide head on into your strike. While the correct distance enables you to strike the target cleanly allowing for more power and penetration. Depending on your distance and timing, you can attack just about any part of their leg, from the thigh down to the top of their foot. As it does, strike to their open rib cage. This is also called a slip.