Career mode training issue

I’ve come back to the game after a couple months break to start a new career and noticed quite an issue when it comes to training in the mode. My AI training partners are blocking everything. I mean, everything. I used to be able to complete the challenges and then string them along with stuns before knocking them out right before the timer runs out to get a decent amount of progress towards leveling up a move but now I can’t hit them at all. They are mind-reading defensive savants. 

I went into options and lowered the AI difficulty to easy and changed their behavior but this changed nothing for the training AI. They still just turtle up and block every strike. As soon as I complete the last challenge the AI changes and begins blocking EVERYTHING. Come on dev team, this breaks the mode.

Also, BIG also, please separate the striking animations from the strike level. Let us choose how we want our punches to look regardless of the strikes level. I love how the level 3 hooks look and go out of my way to use them as little as possible to avoid losing the animation when they level up to rank 4. I’m surprised you even need to be told this is a bad idea.