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how about stepping into that attack to cut the power and jam the attack? This is very effective and highly unnatural and one of the hardest things to train yourself to do because you have to learn how to properly eat strikes.
Finding a proper default position or protective jam from a sudden encounter is key to getting this down though. The position helps you eat the strikes for a very short period of time as you jam into the controling sector and counter attack.
This is not about someone punching and you perfectly block it. It's much more crude and much more realistic.
Here is a excellent article on a number of different default positions and combative principles in general actually.
http://www.urbancombatives.com/defaultart.htm