User blog comment:BenRG/Predictions for Volumes 3 & 4/@comment-9464517-20150215231802/@comment-10390252-20150215232355

Because he knows the aura-enhanced hand-to-hand moves and no-one else in JNPR does. The whole point is to establish that these 'purer, simpler' moves, which have fallen out of favour in recent generations, are potentially more useful in certain scenarios than the use of high-SFX Semblance of flashy, customised weapons.