In defensive style, shaolins often find out that losing fighting rythm even for a tiny moment can mean significant beating. To prevent this to happen, ancient shaolin invented style lock. With this skill shaolin can somehow lock his current fighting style, so he wont lose it every few combat rounds and will regain it much faster should it ever happen. However, it has also some drawback: while style is locked, you cannot change it. You have to unlock it first, and unlocking is not immediate, it takes a while. Locking as well, but it is usually not so significant. In most situations it is not important, but sometime you should consider whether to lock your style or risk losing it here and there for increased flexibility. Also, when style lock triggers to recover lost style, it costs some mana. And if shaolin doesn\'t have mana reserves, his advanced skills not only stop working, but are dangerous to his life. And style lock is no different. So be careful when using style lock.