If he was going to make her attack, Isabel wasn't going to give him a break. She pressed it by landing in a crouch and sweeping her leg out in an attempt to take him down.

If that didn't work (not that she really expected it to, but she was going for subdual, and not harm, especially without a weapon), she'd drop back down into ginga and circle Hendrik. She realized he was canny as her instructors back home--not that that was a bad thing, she'd been aching for a workout with a true artist since then.

Even if Hendrik used a sword and was versed in an entirely different style.