Jab canceling

A jab cancel or jab fake is an advanced technique that is performed by using a characters' jab combo and before finishing it crouch, shield or turn around to follow up with different attacks.

Applications
Jab canceling is beneficial because the final hit of a jab combo is usually either an attack that knocks the opponent away, but is not strong enough to KO or a multi-hit attack that can be easily DI'ed out of. This allows the player to take advantage of the hitstun and low knock back of the first hits of the jab combo to follow up with combos.

Jab grab
A jab grab is performed by hitting the opponent with a jab and then pressing down or directly pressing the grab button to grab the opponent. It is mostly done on shielding opponents by abusing the shield stun of a jab and the player will be able to follow up with a grab. The jab cancel most be done fast enough so the opponent will be able to drop their shield in time to prevent the grab.