Grandmaster Tse’s Wing Chun Note 493

What if the opponent is cunning and attacks the blind person sneakily so that they might not notice it. This can happen even to someone who can see, and they still might get hit.

Blindman

Part 4

During Chī Sáu 黐手 – Sticking Hands, we can spend a lot of time finding many ways to attack and defend, but in a real fight, we must be fast and end the fight quickly. The longer the fight goes on, the more chance there is of losing. This is true for someone who cannot see as well. So, what if the opponent is cunning and attacks the blind person sneakily so that they might not notice it. This can happen even to someone who can see, and they still might get hit, because it is a sneak attack. However, each attack must have a certain tension or reaction in the body, so a visually impaired person can feel it, whether they feel with their contact, hear it, or their intuition tells them. When someone cannot rely on one of their senses, the other senses become stronger. Traditionally in China, a lot of fortune tellers were blind as their intuition is stronger. There a Blind person will know before the fight.

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