Training device

[Andre]

It think it could be great to build contact reflexes if you could have your forearm arm touching it and go off the contact reaction more than the visual one.

Andre, for what it's worth, I tried your suggestion today and found the visual is much better, at least for me. It was just too fast to even deflect the RBT arm with my arm that was touching it before it hit me.

I also tried a new style of punching today against it that made me get hit less but it is a shoulder killer. Rather than just punching fast to get in out quick, I also worked hard at bringing my punch hand back to the guard position as fast as possible once it made the hit. It is obviously great for the least percentage of time your guard is open, but it also is like a fast reload to be ready to punch again with the same arm. The only problem like I said, it really gets to my shoulders and I will have to build up those muscles involved with that quick return movement, but I could see it is worth it.

Its a forearm feeling that is built up over a long time through a system that is slow and one armed al the way to fast and blind folded.A practiced person would enjoy having a go at it I imagine although the style that does utilize it in nose to nose fighting feels the whole opponents intention through that point, I imagine a machine having zero intention and a very stable balance would exercise them in reaction speed only as an additional benefit. It would be interesting to get a local advanced practitioner of Wing Chun in to see what they think.