IT MAY SOUND CRAZY, BUT, LET THEM HIT YOU.

Wing Chun does not attack, Wing Chun counterattacks.

I have mentioned before how intercepting an incoming strike is essentially a ‘Hard Block’, something that we do not do with Wing Chun, and a major misunderstanding about contact.

This is not just a stylistic interpretation, it is a fundamental aspect of what Wing Chun is.

To intercept an incoming strike we must firstly be aware of the event as it unfolds, and secondly, be moving towards the contact.

Moving in towards contact is off course an act of attacking.

Wing Chun does not attack, Wing Chun counter attacks.

Many students struggle to appreciate the true nature of a counter-attack and fail to grasp some very basic even bedrock IDEAS that result from operating from a counter-attacking perspective.

Everyone pays lip service to the notion that we cannot counter-attack unless an attack has happened.

But few join the dots and arrive at the conclusion that an attack has not happened until a strike lands.

Nor do they understand the implications.

If we are in a violent situation we are not bound to only use Wing Chun.

If I choose I can intercept or block an incoming strike or even initiate a preemptive strike of my own, options that may be the better choice in situ.

If I am using Wing Chun Fist Logic the situation has been taken out of my hands, I am already the victim of an attack.

I can only counter-attack after an attack.

After a strike has landed or is at the very least microseconds away from landing.

If the choice is mine {which it will not be anyway} my best option is to let the strike land and not try to prevent it from landing.

Before everyone loses their shit over this comment this is not advice on what to do, it is simply pointing out the conditions needed for counter-attack and as such the conditions needed for Wing Chun.

Letting the incoming strike make contact does not mean that I just stand there and take it, it is more that I control the time, place, and manner of contact.

This is a strategic approach that once understood aids us in being in the best place, at the best time and doing the best thing. 

Although this is most definitely a strategic approach it is not about pre-planning or trying to force the attacker into moving how we wish them to move.

It is strategy from the perspective of knowing our options.

Like so much of Wing Chun this IDEA is counter-intuitive but once explored becomes the go to choice.