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Originally posted by ChrisSportsFan
my question is: what do you watch for during fight situations?
B1 give hard shove and before they can get back together I'm between them and everyone calms down.
I knew to separate players, watch for players on the court and the benches but hadn't put much thought into the fans.
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How can you watch anything or anybody if you're between 2 players?
If they're just yapping or making a little contact, I will get between them. Other than that, if it looks like they're ready to swing, I'll be a whistling and a yelling, but I ain't gonna be a stepping between them. I can't see anything if I do that- including instigation, retaliation, any peripheral action and who started it, etc. Also, over the years, I've had one partner who ended up with a broken jaw and another one who got a broken thumb by deciding to get in the middle just about the same time as someone else decided to take a swing. Personally, I let the teammates take care of it (if they want to) and just stay back and watch. If they wanna go at each other, they'll do so whether you're in there or trying to get in there. If they just wanna yap, which is the situation that happens most of the time, well, I can deal with that from a few feet away. And I always want to make sure that I have the instigator in these cases if something does happen to break out.
Jmo.