[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by bainsey

Nothing obfuscatory here, JR. You simply missed my point.


In the NFHS book, I see five options:
*Blocking
*Pushing
*Holding
*Hand Check
*Illegal Use

Does one push when tripping? Or hold? Or hand check? None of the above, typically. Blocking, I can see, sometimes.

If given the choices, I would say tripping mostly goes to illegal use. (If it were incidental, there would be no whistle, anyway.) It certainly isn't the perfect signal under the circumstances, but I can't find a better one of those five.

I'm not sure that I would use the "illegal use" or "hack" signal when reporting a trip. That signal implies the defender did something illegal with his/her arms. I would use the "block" or "push" signals because those two are things that can be done with body parts other than the hand/arm.