Combat expertise + fighting defensivly

[marune]

COMBAT EXPERTISE [GENERAL]
Prerequisite: Int 13.
Benefit: When you use the attack action or the full attack action in melee, you can take a penalty of as much as –5 on your attack roll and add the same number (+5 or less) as a dodge bonus to your Armor Class. This number may not exceed your base attack bonus. The changes to attack rolls and Armor Class last until your next action.
Normal: A character without the Combat Expertise feat can fight defensively while using the attack or full attack action to take a –4 penalty on attack rolls and gain a +2 dodge bonus to Armor Class.
Special: A fighter may select Combat Expertise as one of his fighter bonus feats.

Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action: You can choose to fight defensively when attacking. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC for the same round.

Fighting Defensively as a Full-Round Action: You can choose to fight defensively when taking a full attack action. If you do so, you take a –4 penalty on all attacks in a round to gain a +2 dodge bonus to AC for the same round.

Tumble skill :
If you have 5 or more ranks in Tumble, you gain a +3 dodge bonus to AC when fighting defensively instead of the usual +2 dodge bonus to AC.
If you have 5 or more ranks in Tumble, you gain a +6 dodge bonus to AC when executing the total defense standard action instead of the usual +4 dodge bonus to AC

Question is, can I use both to get a -9 penalty on attack rolls and get a +8 bonus on AC ?

 

[Mr Jack]

Yes.

 

[shilsen]

Assuming you have at least +5 BAB and 5 ranks in Tumble - yes.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Question is, can I use both to get a -9 penalty on attack rolls and get a +8 bonus on AC ?

The key line that you're missing is because you're reading the SRD instead of the PHB.

Under 'Fighting Defensively as a Standard Action', the PHB has the text you quoted, plus the note "This bonus stacks with the AC bonus from the Combat Expertise feat".

-Hyp.