Mike, the guy has a point. I mean, there are dozens of youtube clips alone wherein, in those mock demos, the person being "attacked" (the lackey), shuts his eyes as he freaks out, in response to his "deadly" partners "attacks."
I will say, though, that in the dozen or two real life encounters I've been in, in my own past the only time I've had to rely on feeling, flow, or whatever has been in clinches. Those times wherein an attack was so fast I was not able to see a strike here and there; any "feeling" had to do with reacting to the feeling of a strike - ouch! - reacting to that, adjusting in response to it, and so on, when it was simply unavoidable.
What a wake up call it must've been for the late Bruce Lee, for example, that as amazing a martial artist as he truly was, that after all his sensitivity training, after all his Chi Sau, all his hours upon hours of training fanatically blindfolded, he in the end realized "it didn't feel right!," abandoning it altogether.
Seems to me way too many Wing Chun practitioners fall prey to believing the Chi Sau/Trapping hype. That, in too many ways the art is simply outdated. As if the art, for far too many of it's practitioners is some sort of safe chess game between two intellctuals at a park table on a Saturday afternoon. With the same egos, the same sense of false superiority resulting therefrom.
Sorry for the quote Mike, but...
"In memory of a once fluid man, crammed and distorted by the classical mess."
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