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No doubt, do not add "must" to slide. If your park district wants to make it avoid any contact fine but always leave it up to the player to decide how to avoid a collision. I always said in my pregames to remind your players that all hitting should be below the belt, slide, give yourself up, go around but if I get torso to torso I've got a judgement call to make.
Inevitably every year I'd hear "but if he's in the way without the ball...." my reply "you still have to go around and I'll stick out my left arm for you but if you crash into him then I'll be using my right arm and probably doing some pointing, as in where the exit is".
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