[color=7ea7d8]'Okay, more then [i]not bad..[/i]'[/color] the sage thought as he vanished into the wind once more, this time however the sage decided to be a tad more clever and created a burst of wind which shot upwards and began to zigzag around at the same speeds he would travel at, making it look like it was him trying to escape the attack along with drawing most attention away from the real him. Jeff himself simply just made with wind initially push away from the attack in all directions and then proceeded with lowered his bodily ki output to make himself nearly undetectable and flowed with the wind that was circling around the crater nonstop this entire time. 
For there Jeff would wait to see how well his distraction worked and waited for a second to drift in closer to a blind point and strike.