Simultaneous Attack and Defence in Chi Sau

Following on from the last post, do we use or can we find Simultaneous Attack and Defence in our Chi Sau practice? Lately we have been having a closer look at Chi Sau and Chum Kiu especially focusing on the Concept of the "Spinning Ball" for defensive duties and the "Spinning Cone", or "Witches Hat" for attacking duties, but what about Simultaneous A & D? Sometimes we forget that Chi Sau is nothing more than a Drill, a dynamic environment in which we can explore and try out the things that the various Forms show us, and that it is up to us to look for our training in Chi Sau and not just be shown "Moves". If the "Spinning Ball is defensive and the "Spinning Cone" is attacking then Simultaneous A&D must contain both. In Chi Sau the first part of the Taan Sau / Bong Sau rotation is the Man Sau or  Searching Hand, when intercepted this redirects the force away by turning into Bong Sau, but if it is not intercepted it continues forwards to strike, while this is happening we are applying pressure through our Fook Sau to our Partners attempt to roll from Bong to a striking position, at this point we are utilising the concept of "Simultaneous Attack and Defence", if we think the situation is open to perform the Basic Fook Sau Latch it is usually here, and of course any other Gwoh Sau application is also using Simultaneous A&D. Often advances in understanding come from simply looking closely at what you are doing, observing your actions and reactions to the dynamic exchanges that make up Chi Sau and then doing them deliberately when the chance allows.

Simultaneous Attack and Defence

I was involved in a discussion on this on another site and thought that I would post this here as well, "Simultaneous Attack and Defence" is one of the underlying attributes of Wing Chun, does it mean that we Strike and Defend at the same time? No it does not, sometimes it will be the case but most likely not, sometimes we will Strike before we Defend, what we do is begin the Process of "Simultaneous Attack and Defence" at the same time, what lands first will be determined more by the position and action of the opponent than by our design.

Knowledge, where does it come from?

I had a group of my more senior charges at my home over the weekend, we were going over some work on Chum Kiu and Gwoh Sau {crossing Hands, trapping}, it is really easy to teach intelligent people that actually want to learn, somewhere in the middle of the Day I suddenly thought to myself "how and when did I amass this knowledge"? I have not had much guidance since my Sifu passed away 3 years ago but I have moved forward and improved quite noticeably, and I feel confident in saying this, so it must at least be almost true.
Sometimes when you keep trying to learn new things you just loose some of the old things, I doubt that I know anymore today than I did the last time I spoke to my Sifu, but by continually trying to pass on his teaching through my own teaching I am beginning to understand it and make it my own, I still have a great deal to learn I know that, but I am happy with where my knowledge is at this time.
After my Sifu's passing there was a lot of negative talk about us not being given all the relevant information, in hindsight my Sifu was very frugal with information but if you asked a question he would answer it, happily I asked lots of questions, recently my Sifu's own Sifu had his book translated into English, I awaited its arrival with great excitement, I have read it a few times already and there is nothing in it that I was not told at least once by my Sifu, this is a cause of great Joy to me.  Even today when I make new connections, find new ways to understand my Wing Chun it is all based on the seed that my Sifu planted, and always will be.