Classic advice – hands up (fence) and be ready to preempt.

I don’t know about the “poke the eyes advice!”  Try doing this to a moving target – its not so easy.  Going for the throat is also technically challenging.  All the opponent has to do is tuck the chin and this is reflexive.  I think my tweak to this would be (in Wing Chung parlance) to get a bridge (reflex) and then “take position”(aggressive instinct to attack the attack).