What is offense in fighting?

Offense is primarily those actions that deploy your superior strengths and its goal is to defeat the opponent. It is reliant partially on you and partially on your opponent. To defeat the opponent, your offense must be more than just good in the conventional sense. It also must be superior to your opponent’s defense. If you prepare excellent kicks and your opponent is better at blocking your kicks than you are at deploying them, you will lose.

Here it would be better to have another type of offense to fall back on. In a sense, superior does not always mean technically better. It can mean smarter, faster, stronger, more sophisticated. The offense that wins is the one that best fits your strengths and your opponent’s weaknesses.

In summary, when you master offense, the opponent will not know how to defend against you. When you master defense, he will have nowhere to attack. If you master the strategy of offense and defense as one, he will not even know whether to attack or defend.