John, in your desire to prove some point I wasn't even talking about, you purposely left out the second half of my quote where I was distinctively talking about KICKS, not haymakers. Please, next time you want to prove a point, either quote me correctly or don't quote me at all.
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In Stonecrusher's clip at 1.44, he used his left arm to block his opponent's right haymaker. I just share my personal experience about that part of testing.
In your post, did you try to say that some kick may be too power to be blocked by single arm? I just forgot to say that I agree with you. But from the words that I used, you can see that I did.
The roundhouse kick and haymaker are similar. If one can't block a haymaker with a same side single arm, how can he be able to block a much more powerful roundhouse kick with a single arm. When I had my commercial school, I used to let students to block their opponent's roundhouse kick. After one student got a broken arm, I no longer did that. At least I haven't seen a broken arm from blocking haymaker yet.
Without proper "body rotation", both hard and soft approach are not enough IMO. But if you use the right arm with a body rotation to the left, you may be able to block a powerful haymaker or powerful roundhouse kick. Of course if you step in and squeeze the space, that will be another valid solution.
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The technique I used in the video to block the Haymaker if you" push the punch through" or muscle the punch then my technique wont work but if you strike at me like in the video then it will work. It just depends on the force your using. A single technique can not solve all problems.
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A fairly large person who thought his haymaker could knock through William Cheung's Bil Sao was invited to try it.
The first one did slightly offset his balance, after which William Cheung settled his stance a little better and invited him to try again. The guy broke his ulna on the Bil Sao the second time. Rotating the body to face the incoming strike, per Yip Man's alleged advice, is standard TWC.
Whether this was a "technical" haymaker, if that is in fact not a contradiction in terms, may be open to debate. And this was of course a demonstration rather than a fight.
I don't think that the Bil Sao would work so well against some Choy Li Fut swinging punches (which contact with radius side of the arm rather than the ulna and according to some were specifically designed to attack Wing Chun guards and defenses, and incorporate the downward angle mentioned above) and definitely wouldn't think of trying it against a shin kick.
The thread was about using soft to overcome hard, and this is a fair way off that.
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