'He stopped some six feet away stepping forward with his right leg'

See, this was ambiguous to me, when I write how my character stops I'd have written he had stopped with his right foot forward, so this is what I took you to mean here. If you intended for him to step forward after stopping it would have been useful to have said he stopped six feet away, then he stepped forward with his right leg to cut. Instead you put the two actions together which left it up in the air what he was doing. Even an extra detail like how far forward he stepped would have prevented my confusion, because from what I read it just looks like he tried to cut at a crouching man from six feet away. 

Trust me, I don't want to be confused, but it's always the smallest details that make the biggest difference.