Hi Jeff,
Yes, anyone blindly straight blasting is asking for a good counter. If he has actually punched you then follows up with more straight punches - that would make sense. In a life and death situation a good VT man would have made that first punch more potent by being a punch to the throat, or an eye jab, and then followed with something like a thumb into the eye - but not followed with endless punches. That's barroom fighting. I know that the way I was trained to do VT drills was with placing my fingers around the larnyx, or thumb alongside the eye area, or fingers onto the forehead - so that when I am on auto pilot these will be my responses. I know I'm veering off topic a bit, but I remember Ted Wong telling me about the fight he got in to save his friends life (he died as a result of the fight, because of a heart condition) and he was so mad with himself, as he side kicked the first guy in the chest sending him flying. Well this guy picked himself back up and helped beat on Ted. Ted eventually prevailed but couldn't believe that after 30 years of practicing a kick to the knee he kicked the guy in the chest! So I think one should train as seriously as one can, so that, as in this example, one doesn't just fly forward with chain punches.
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