A Paragraph of Da Mu Hsing I & II

I have heard the phrases "think of it like a sentence" to describe vocabulary of motion, flow, and personal interpretation of a technique, and I have always wanted to actually write it out, to figure out what sort of punctuation I use when doing my forms. So I'm finally getting around to doing it with my hand form for this year.

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Da Mu Hsing I and II

Opening bow,

(winD-UP)High rising block! step forward punch, step back downward foot-block, punch. Retract --(look) inside hooking block? Step forward punch, (look) reverse hooking block, VERTICAL PUNCH, (look) outside forearm block, (look) knife-hand. 

Take down the guards strike (I'm realizing I don't actually know what this technique is called?) (look) double block; winD-UPknifehandlongpunch openroundhouse(look)spinningbackkick crane stance retraction.

Lower double knife-hand block. Front thrust KICK, lower slide out PUNCH. Pivot downward foot block! inside hooking block. release twist PUNCH! VERTICAL PUNCH! 

Halfway closing bow,

Closing Bow.

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Notes:

- I wrote the inside hooking block with a "?" because I am trying to check my high back stance and make sure this technique is completed because I find it really easy to rush through it, it invokes the same intonation in my brain as a "?" does when I'm reading, not the sound, but the feeling.

- I'm thinking about the idea of how English is a horrible medium for describing Kung fu, Multiple times when I wrote a section I was grasping for a punctuation in between a "." and a "," something I could use to explain the finality/release/completion of a single technique while also continuing the momentum of the techniques around it. (I suppose I could write it as a (punctuation) with a lowercase on the next sentence like I did in-between the first and second technique, or as ".," but it felt redundant since every technique should have an ending, but I'm still struggling how to articulate this idea. 

- I realize reading it back that for many of these I included the movement/preliminary actions, and I think I accidentally did this as a way to mimic the rhythm in my head, and the "beginning, middle, end" that exists within each technique. Because I don't just think "punch. block. strike." I am trying to use words to string together the motions that exist in-between so as to better replicate the form. I wish I knew how to read/write music because that may be a much better way to articulate the patterns of my flow than English and could solve my problem I just described!

- I found it interesting that we refer to it as the "opening" and "closing" bow even though they are the same motions. I'm wondering if the difference in name refers to the difference in intent, because I do think about two very different things in my opening compared to my closing, but they have many similarities like being strong/intense, being a reset point, etc. but just in different contexts? I'm not sure, but I never thought about this until I wrote them out and thought about the difference in name compared to the similarity in movement.