My brain works a little oddly and while driving home yesterday I was thinking about Delayed Sword. This brought me to inward blocks. The thrusting inward block as generally taught comes from the hip directly to the corner of the imaginary box one side of which is your two shoulders. The more that I thought aolut this action the more that I feel that while you can use this description to describe the lowermost movement into an inward blocking position, it becomes essentially a check with no useful force. The line of energy in this movement comes through the fist in a line of action which makes any strike by the forearm at most a glancing blow. On the otherhand the hammering inward block moves the line of force perpendicular to the forearm with path of action and the entire forearm becomes a strike. So while they look superficially the same at the end the difference in effectiveness and action between the two is quite different. Should inward blocks always contain circular motion to allow the forearm to become a striking rather than glancing force?
Jeff
Jeff