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This has to do with the fact that most American Kenpo forms make an attempt to start and complete in the same general position. Because of this when the inside, downward, palm-down blocks are completed, the practitioner is placed one complete stance depth behind the position were the form started. In order to get both sides of both the outward, overhead elbows and the inward, overhead elbows (left and right) while also returning to the original starting position of the form, three repetitions of the first and two of the second are needed.