What I do is seek to generate enough momentum that once relaxed from dming, I can still be in a position to cause damage afterward. Knowledge of relaxed foghting helps a lot in those situations, but honestly you're still going to be more or less a sitting duck for x frames. If you have a good idea of when they will strike you, you can use normally impossible or unwise movements to help. For example, if normally within 10 frames you would punch or dm your chest bycontracting the pec and elbow, if dmed the body will relax and thus that contraction can prove advantageous. Being dmed can actually provide a brief increase in precision, that way. As for the upward momentum, I really can't help you there. Swexx is good at doing that and he usually reks me.