No problem. When I was talking about empty jumping, just to clarify, I was mainly referring to doing it when your opponent is on their back. As in, knockdown -> empty jump (optional whiff late j.CD to fake) -> D SAB or DM. Empty hopping as an approach is leagues different. Is this what you meant by getting "AA"ed? Or were you talking about wake-up DPs?
Anywho, on the topic of empty hopping in neutral spacing:
You can only do that once you've trained them to respect your jump-in via
-late j.CDs (blocked), which provide enough frame advantage to freely hop into an uninterrupted j.whatever (which you can then mix-up)
-you have them scared/trapped in the corner. Even the best players let a few hops slip by unnoticed and focus on blocking.
etc