Originally Posted by
Ultimatewingchun
***THINK CAREFULLY about this.
Good boxers often use bobbs and weaves as part of a one move the ending of which is a strike; the same thing with a duck. He throws a punch, you duck and return the fire on a different line from a different angle in one motion. Not wasted motion or energy at all; but rather, it becomes something that can easily be labelled (near) simultaneous attack & defense.
Does this strategy sound familiar?
And even in wing chun reality fighting, exactly simultaneous attack and defense is very rare. "Simultaneous" attack and defense is almost always hitting back on the half beat - and not on the exact first beat.