Sticks and Stones were the first weapons man ever used.
RANGES AND STICKS.
I always get bemused when people who claim to know things about violent physical interactions with other people start to talk about fighting ranges.
Anyone who does know about violence knows that there is only one range.
Contact.
When we consider the range that Wing Chun operates at as a self-defence-oriented martial art, what we are talking about is the other end of an attack.
Even if the initial strike is from what is sometimes called long-range, the follow-up is right down our throats so we should settle down and settle in.
Into being up close and personal.
Our very own Dai Sigung Isaac Newton and Sibak Albert Einstein made it very clear that time and space are two sides of the same coin.
When we are short of one we are short of both, so whatever we do it needs to be very quick, and very close.
There is a great deal of well-intentioned but misguided information kicking around the self-defence community, most of it can be blown away by basic high-school-level physics, and the rest by common sense.
We get out of bad situations by putting the bad guy down, it is not the best thought, but it is the truth.
Sticks and Stones were the first weapons man ever used.
And more than anything else, the only wrong move is not to move.
SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Wing Chun Sydney, Australia 