[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Be sure to use your open hands on your hips, not your fists. You're new, so it should be easy for you to start doing it, and keep doing it, the correct way. For some reason, twenty-eight years ago, I started using my fists on my hips, and even though I know it's wrong, I'm still doing it, at the site of the foul, today. By the time I reach the reporting table, I remember, and use my open hands on my hips.

A lot of local areas do not care how you signal a block as it relates to the fists or the open hands. This certainly does not apply across the board.

Peace