Risky Blow, Bold Thrust do not affect a body check?

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Konrad Klar
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Risky Blow wrote:Warrior only against one strike. +3 to prowess and -1 to body.
Bold Thrust wrote:Warrior only. Warrior receives +3 to prowess and -1 to body against one strike.
CRF wrote:Annotation 19: Following each successful strike or failed strike, a body check must
be rolled (unless the failed strike has no body). However, if the strike calls for any
special actions to follow it (e.g., a character wounded by "William" may be required
to discard his items), these special actions are resolved before the body check. The
body check is the first declared action in a nested chain of effects that immediately
follows the strike dice-roll and special actions resulting from the strike. Other actions
may be declared in response to a body check, in the same chain of effects, but these
are limited to those actions that directly affect the body check dice- roll. E.g., Tookish
Blood could not be declared in response to the body check caused by Giant Spiders
wounding a Hobbit. No action may be declared in response to a special action
resulting from a strike unless the special action is a dice-rolling action, i.e., a special
action is generally considered synonymous with the strike dice-roll. If the special
action is a dice-rolling action, an action may be declared in response to it if the action
directly affects the dice-roll.
Underline mine.

If a body check is considered to be performed following a strike, it is not a part of the strike.
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I believe that a body of character wounded by a strike should be affected by Risky Blow, Bold Thrust.
But I also think that it should be clear which activities belong to a strike and which do not.

"Following each strike sequence resulting in a successful or failed strike"
instead
"Following each successful strike or failed strike"
would not push a body check outside a strike. Performing the body check would be considered the part of the facing of strike procedure.
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