Starting when you choose this style at 3rd level, you can keep out of harm's way with a technique known as circle walking. Whenever an enemy makes a melee attack against you, you can spend 1 ki point to activate your Deflection ki feature against it, reducing the damage of the attack.
IF you reduce the damage to 0, you can circle walk around your target. While circle walking, your target has disadvantage on attack rolls made against you, and you can use your reaction to move up to your speed so long as you remain within 5 feet of your target. Circle walking ends immediately if you are not within 5 feet of the target for any reason.