Spring attack and scorpion style

[angryscrub]

based on the way i'm reading these, it looks like you can't use scorpion style in conjunction with spring attack. can someone please convince me otherwise?

[Caedwyr]

Spring Attack wrote:

Spring Attack (Combat)

You can deftly move up to a foe, strike, and withdraw before he can react.

Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, base attack bonus +4.

Benefit: You can move up to your speed and make a single melee attack without provoking any attacks of opportunity from the target of your attack. You can move both before and after the attack, but you must move at least 10 feet before the attack and the total distance that you move cannot be greater than your speed. You cannot use this ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of your turn.

Normal: You cannot move before and after an attack.

Spring attack allows you to make a single melee attack. The wording and "Normal" text rule out Full Attack actions, but not Attack Actions (standard action).

Scorpion Style wrote:

Scorpion Style (Combat)

You can perform an unarmed strike that greatly hampers your target's movement.

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must make a single unarmed attack as a standard action. If this unarmed attack hits, you deal damage normally, and the target's base land speed is reduced to 5 feet for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier unless it makes a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis modifier).

Scorpion style allows one to make a single melee attack as a standard action. This does not conflict with any of the limitations in Spring Attack, so it should work. If Scorpion Style required a full-attack action, I'd rule otherwise.

[angryscrub]

Caedwyr wrote:

Spring Attack wrote:

Spring Attack (Combat)

You can deftly move up to a foe, strike, and withdraw before he can react.

Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, base attack bonus +4.

Benefit: You can move up to your speed and make a single melee attack without provoking any attacks of opportunity from the target of your attack. You can move both before and after the attack, but you must move at least 10 feet before the attack and the total distance that you move cannot be greater than your speed. You cannot use this ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of your turn.

Normal: You cannot move before and after an attack.

Spring attack allows you to make a single melee attack. The wording and "Normal" text rule out Full Attack actions, but not Attack Actions (standard action).

Scorpion Style wrote:

Scorpion Style (Combat)

You can perform an unarmed strike that greatly hampers your target's movement.

Prerequisite: Improved Unarmed Strike.

Benefit: To use this feat, you must make a single unarmed attack as a standard action. If this unarmed attack hits, you deal damage normally, and the target's base land speed is reduced to 5 feet for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier unless it makes a Fortitude saving throw (DC 10 + 1/2 your character level + your Wis modifier).

Scorpion style allows one to make a single melee attack as a standard action. This does not conflict with any of the limitations in Spring Attack, so it should work. If Scorpion Style required a full-attack action, I'd rule otherwise.

it says "as a standard action". spring attack does not grant you a standard action. it grants you a melee attack during movement. it's not even an action as far as i can tell, just part of another action.