OPhil, took me a while to reply...holidays & stuff but...OMG! you mean you got hit! Well, your wing chun must suck. beacuse wing chun is perfect in every way and if you got hit, wing chun didnt fail you, you failed wing chun, Now you must pay penance.......Once I got clocked and was sort of out of it but the barrage kept on coming. Had I punked out I would have been dissed by the guys in my barrio. Especially since they knew I studied the "arts".
lol. As you can guess the above is my 'commentary' on the predominant mindset around here. Enough on that for now.
First off kudos for talking about what seems to be tabboo around here....what to do when the 'ish hits the fan.
Second I just wanted to say. HELL YEAH! That is EXACTLY when i would use the 'cover' also. I just wanted to see where you'd use it, because it's fairly new to me and I wanted to figure out where it would fit into the scheme of things. I settled on what I call the "oops I f@cked up" range...either I got hit, I let him get too close, or I didnt control him enough to prevent him from firing first. that's when I'd use it - till I 'recover'. The it's either to the clinch or back to range once I've cleared my head, and then it's (hopefully) hammer time.
Nice. And by the way, the way you described training that drill is EXACTLY the way I learned it from a phenomenal boxing coach I happened to come across......