""if do right, no can defense".."
Maybe he meant that the usage of the 'defence of the beer can' doesn't work.
All kidding aside, there's no such thing as 'can't defend', although if your timing is correct and you are doing a simple technique like a straight punch without telegraphing and fast enough after you have successfully used a feint, for example, defending can be tricky or very close to impossible.
If someone sees what you are trying to do and knows your 'plan' (although you shouldn't really have a 'plan' anyway, or you can't be in the moment), defence is going to be easy.
As to the Crane Kick goes - a pretty ridiculous, unflowing, petrified, unnatural and unnecessarily complex kick as it is - - there were people that remembered it wrong and practiced until they could do it, only to be disappointed as to how much easier it is in the movie.
Some people trained in a way that the 'hurt leg' won't ever touch the ground, but Daniel immediately puts the other foot on the ground while kicking with the 'healthy foot' (how can he withstand the pain?? How can he even do it?? He can't use that foot for support for the other kick, or why even do the whole Crane Kick thing, if he's foot is that healthy?).
So in -that- sense, logically thinking, and knowing what's possible for the human body, Daniel always does the Crane Kick wrong.
A straight punch after successful feint delivered fast, snapped with correct timing and distance - now THAT would be hard to defene against.
A complex 'balancing act' that's ridiculously predictable and telegraphed, is actually very easy to defend against.
There's also a possibility that no one had developed a defence back in the past, but the defence has been since cultivated without Miyagi's knowledge (although even this explanation would take him down a peg or two from the 'Omnipotent Karate God' status).
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