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Originally posted by ATXCoach
Thx Z:
...... it's a travel by the book, but it's rarely called.
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This is true of a lot of different moves. Coaches and players think anything is legal as long as it has a name.
No! That's a jump stop. That's a drop step. That's an up and under.
This is frustrating for both the officials who do call the violations that "nobody else calls," and for the players who "have been doing that move all year without a call."
Hard to comment on your move without seeing it, but it sounds pretty blatant to me. Still, practice makes perfect. The smoother your are, the more you get away with. The "too many whistles, let 'em play!" philosophy is not totally without merit, but I find, at all levels, the more you give 'em, the more they take. This applies to everything from holding to traveling to THREE SECONDS to you name it. It is difficult to blame players and coaches for thinking "Keep doing it if they're not gonna call it."