Thread: Gorilla Stance
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Old Thu Apr 14, 2005, 06:56am
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally posted by Daryl H. Long
You said yourself that umpires were not calling the gorilla stance a balk until this year. If the NF can legalize the sideways step because no one was calling it a balk they can legalize the gorilla stance also for the same reason.
I agree -- it wasn't "clear" before. So, some were calling it and some weren't. Much like the "sideways step." So, the FED made it clear in both instances. One they allowed and one they didn't. It's not what I would have done, but they didn't ask me. (And, I think the reason for making the gorilla arm illegal had to do with potential complications during the shoulder turn -- was that a feint or not with the arm hanging down?)

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