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Originally Posted by Old School
I see one big problem here with you guys that support this rule as written. You have never been in a situation where someone has taken your feet out from under you after you've gone airborne. In football, you got pads on, a helmet, you got a lot of equipment to help you absorb the fall. In basketball, you got a hard wood floor and no protection.
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If safety is the main concern, why not just stop allowing players to jump in the air while they're running? They certainly can't have their feet "taken out from under them" if they are only allowed to jump straight up and down, right?