I am leaning more towards the fact he was a sanda guy. Of the limited knowledge I have of legit kung fu I saw none of the trademark defenses. A lot of traditional kungfu is big on open hand parries. Now im not really talking about the new stuff like Wing chun.
Most legit styles went extinct with the rise of Communism. The only one that is still around that is even moderately old is Tai chi and its off shoots. Im not sure how it survived.
Been watching videos of some of there advanced practinioners sparring, and they use a hell of a lot of various parries. Not just the slap kind you see a lot of mma guys using.
Here is a few videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc6rKNGQFPo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Tz3DfoAH4.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ItHtTqY2OE These guys are not very good but still sparring and you can see their styles preference for parrying and some surprisingly karate like blocking movements which I was surprised by.
Oddly I cant find many good videos.. So few are doing it for martial arts and I find that sad.
Its to bad its nearly impossible to find martial tai chi, as at my age id love to study it.