I am not a fan of whiff ball -> throw, even when it is working. It’s one of those things that just sort of stops working.
Some of my SSF4 AE matches as Blanka from last week:
Utemasuka is really good.
Far standing HP look great against dive pressure.
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I think that Yun was very determined to start offense with dive kick. Lol
I know Acqua is very good, but jumping into heavy normals until you die isn’t that smart.
Blanka deals with divekicks very well in neutral situations though. He’s very vulnerable when he knocked down or in the corne rhowever. Having to deal with a meaty/command grab/divekick/fake divekick mixup that has OS’s in it. It’s why Cammy stomps him so hard, because her neutral game is in the upper half of the cast and she can still do BS. It’s just hard overall.
Blanka > Twins in the neutral game though, no contest.
What vid?
A few of my matches I had vs littlegirl1994 a few days ago.He is 1 of the better Sagat players atm on PSN among with Emblemlord and Moshtaba.
There were a few rounds in which I was playing kinda reckless,but I think the matches were overall quite good gameplay wise.The first match was a Guile vs Sagat and the sec and third match were Blanka vs Sagat replays:
Won a small tourney in Edmonton Canada about 50 ppl,
http://www.youtube.com/user/Shiro420#p/u/0/iBIsgdTzSBY
all my matches were a 4-6
Haha on the dropped nervous ultra, lucky outcome. Good games though. Lol on RQ at end. 
These are some of my last ranked matches:
vs ken http://youtu.be/ccQ0Hc1UtIQ
vs sagat http://youtu.be/hnQ1dMnQ4XY
mirror http://youtu.be/mBIDJ8nEb_I
vs evil ryu http://youtu.be/SMDTqIxQjFM
Any comment will be appreciated!
Good stuff. I respect you doing the T SRAI-type one frame links but ending them with electricity just as easily as a ball. Much more well rounded play.
ken - nice elec pressure
sagat - doesnt count, looked like you raped him, and make him look bad
evil ryu - you had many chances to end the match earlier! you should have AA his jumpins! he jumped a lot
you should post vids of matches that were really close or where you lose! we cannot analyse your mistakes if you dont do any!
you won all these matches easily (didnt watch the mirror) so GG bro!
You are playing in a way more stable fashion. Good stuff
was watching Excellent Adventures… and Mike Ross was playing a bit of Blanka… i like how he pressure with c.LK x 3, s.LP, hop -> repeat… will probably work on some more hop strategies… other than the one i’m already doing…
also anybody got any idea how much frame disadvantage you get after you cancel a normal from block/hit?
-LAU
from the labwork thread
Rockcrusher xx f.hop
block -9
hit -4
ch -1
Cr.mk xx f.hop
block -9
hit -6
ch -3
Light Attacks xx f.hop
block -12
hit -9
counterhit -8
Thanks Ves…
so basically you can’t really hop at them if they are expecting it… the only way you’ll attack them is out of surprise…
-LAU
well one thing a lot of blanka players get away with is that if you try to punish hop too soon you will whiff as blanka is on the other side already. If your punish attempt doesn’t hit on both sides(blanka upball/horiball, ex sbk, guy tatsu) then there is a chance you might get whiff punished.
Chainable jabs are good on block because even if you mess up, the 2nd jab(chained on whiff) should hit blanka in grounded recovery frames, so you can get a full combo.
Hop cancels are better the less you use them by far.
ves:
Good explanation… aside from recently (after watching mike ross’s vid)… the main hop cancel stuff i use are.
crossup j.MK, c.MK xx hop, up ball/hop back (so they whiff like you mentioned)
or… after electricity pressure trying to close in the distance after one or two jab xx electricity pressure.
also… i guess after focus attack lvl 2 (or ch lvl 1) back dash… hop forward, c.LK/MK xx hop, mixup
but watching mike ross doing the pseudo reset definitely inspired me a bit…
the main thing i find hop good for is really to beat out people who thinks their FA can beat out blanka’s mid range poke/slides
-LAU
Yeah timing safejumps, killing charge, and using jab xx hop to destroy focus are probably the most useful applications of the move.
Yep jump in and throw a FA and then if they can’t be unblockabled then a double hop into a combo. They almost always try to throw the first hop, but even in AE I can still get the double hop off. I thought it would get thrown, but hasn’t yet. Hopping out of combo doesn’t ever go well for me. I almost always eat a jab at the least.