Fri Jan 20, 2006, 03:38pm
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Originally posted by M&M Guy
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Dan_ref
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
No matter how you hold it, it's going to make the area you can swat bigger.
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You seem pretty certain this is true.
Care to back it up?
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Sure. Pick up a shoe. Is it exactly the same size and shape as your hand? If not, it increases the area that you can touch with that hand. Increased area = extension.
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What if the player hits/swats the ball with the back of his hand, even though he's holding the shoe in that same hand, and the shoe never touches the ball or other player? Or, for that matter, bats the ball away with the other hand? Stop play, or play on?
(1/2 curiosity, 1/2 pot-stirring)
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For me, swatting at the ball with the hand that is holding a shoe is a gonna be a violation based on: Safety - shoe gets away and strikes a player, shoelace in an eye. Intimidation - heavy handed tactics due to increased mass like throwing an elbow
And so I ask myself,"Self? Why are you responding to this post?"
mick
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