It always boggled me when I would spar with a 2nd degree black belt friend of mine in TKD. Whenever I'd rush in like that, he'd always have a quick counter, or somehow get around my punches as I wore myself out. However, when he'd rush in, I'd keep back peddling until he got me off balance enough to cream me, or I'd trip over something. Then he'd pick up a brick while I was down and raise it over his head and say, "If this was real...you'd be hurtin' bro." I asked him why he could always get around me, put I always got thrown off balace. His answer was simple, yet I rarely found myself doing because of bad practice. "Dude, whenever I attack you back up! When you attack me I just keep circling so I don't lose much ground, and I keep my balance." He would always protect his center line by anticipating the attack and immediately countering, or he's move in a circle to avoid whatever I threw. Afterwards I too started sidestepping and intercepting more, and I found out that the only way to imploy the wing chun straight blast was by entering first and Then when I was inside I would blast away.
Still one problem in my opinion...since the straight blast isn't really enough in my opinion to take someone out, it makes the fight much longer. "Enter, blast, trap, HKE (head butts, knees, elbows)", I wonder if I could do all this if more than 1 guy was fighting me!!!
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