Feud ; ) goes way back !
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It's because Joy is really a CLF practitioner! lololololol
Wu sao to many is just a line back and forth. The real dynamic use comes from using a combination of angling and fighting speeds. What " some " show in still photos can't convey the energy in the arm and speed of footwork to combine while fighting. Chi sao is simply abstract training. When fighting the wu sao can't , as mentioned , be moving to chase or its just in survival mode. Why we have a line we move wu sao on, not with all the variations and " it's a beer holder too " approach.
Fighting at speed can't involve thinking about wu sao.
To me it has levering qualities when joined to the stance and can be used to wedge and move things, giving back the incoming force. Unjoined it isn't much of a barrier to anything, better just to raise your hands boxing style
If I place a coin in your open tan sao hand and then put my hand a few inches above it , I can snatch the coin out of your hand because of reaction time lag of the visual actions. Similarly I can treat your nose, eye, throat with this same attacking speed. Iow you won't be able to react in time if your wu sao is too low or far back or it moves off line forwards or you might leave the line laterally. The energy of wu sao equally can't go " oh speed and power " then react with an energy to sustain the line of force coming at you so fast! You can " survive " if you get in the way of an attack but the following barrage of fists will hit you because you didn't MOVE YOUR ARSE too. Iow it's not just one hand in the back it's an arm length in front of us along the centerline. This arm length is also engaged in intercepting speed by position already taken before the attacks so we can check the line not retreat back to survive. There's no way you can take a hand back as a vt hand comes ; ) unless you know vt.
Without corresponding movement based on the line of attack its still a single action that needs angling. Thoughtless angling with balance and ability to hit back with force for the next attacks and the next , next , next.
If you think , you are slow.