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rofl, lies and slander

take it from a hardcore red user(normaly, however i can normaly use every stance/saber depending on my mood) all manuvers can be blocked or stop-thrusted. You just have to do it activly instead of leting the game do it on auto for you.

here's a tip from der duffman when using red or yellow, at times its not always better to aim at the person, so much as aiming at thier saber. Red swings will stop every single kind of special {kata, dfa} and knock aside every kind of swing (including other red swings). Yellow can also acomplish this, although against red it has to be timed right, and takes even quicker reflexes then normal. This is what I call active blocking.

Say you are backed up to a point where you cant retreat (wall or a cravase or lava or something silly) and you have no more room to evade, and the swing comes at you from your left. You have 2 choices, jump out of the way like a rabbit, or block the swing. If you used all your force to evade already, and are depleted, you dont have much choice. If its a red swing, and the oppoents arm is fully extended already, you have 1 option, counter with a red swing that comes from your right, and im for the midpoint of ur opponets swing. If sabler locks are enabled, this will have adecent chance of causing one, or cause the blade to richocette backwards, or twards your opponent. If the swing is in its starting position (drawn back, prepareing to swing) you can counter it with a yellow strike to the saber before the arm reaches extention and it will be blocked or richocette'd. This is also true against staff/dualies, although the timing has to be more precice as does your aim.

my 2 cents