What Diavle want to see is some of her combos listed in her thread. We rarely seen any DM combo, or HD combo with her, even we didn't see damaging corner combos (I never seen any of these combos that can be finished with air grab). Watching combo's list of her thread, you realize that Mai has things we never have seen in videos. Maybe is because all these nice combos are uneffective in a real match or simply because Mai players seen in vids use her as filler bar first character and they don't pretend combo with her.
But, combos aside, I think use Mai as zoning-run attack-escape character is the regular way to use her. At least I always played her in that way (maybe using more Musasabi and Hisatsu)
(sorry for the offtopic, maybe we should move this to Mai's discussion thread)
Ahhh, I see what you're getting at (this is mildly relevant since it's about the videos in questions.) Short answer, you'll see them in due time. Longer answer: Mai is relatively new to both Ash and myself (and we're the only Mai users in AI) as oppose to Shen and Chin who I've been using since day one. Both of us actually did corner combos with drive cancels etc. in the tournament but they were done on earlier matches which were not recorded I'm afraid. Lastly, Mai is too awesome as a battery character so flashier combos which are usually reserved for 2nd and 3rd characters are seldom seen.
Remember she has a limited
moveset: she doesn't hit confirm well (no command attacks), she doesn't really have a safe move except qcb+A (even the C version is kinda unsafe), her DM suffers hugely from damage scaling and therefore Ex Ryuenbu is a much better substitute usage of a stock and finally her HD combos are really only useable near the corner (she has one non-corner HD combo that requires you to have 2 stocks) but going back to the hit confirm and lack of command attacks, activating HD is much more of a challenge.
Command attacks help hit confirmations so much it's not funny (think Shen, Iori, Terry, K' etc...), at least some characters who don't have command attacks have 2 hit standing attacks to hit confirm (Mature's s.B and Raiden's s.D) into HD. Kensou also suffers from the same problem as Mai.
Currently we're both working on activating HD on light attacks but we're still practicing (I was trying it on the early rounds in the tournament and got it off once or twice but not consistently).