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Originally Posted by curlingrocks
Now if I am swinging my elbows outside of my body and make contact with another player anywhere on their body, we should have a foul.
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I think that this might be the source of your confusion. Players who are "swinging elbows"
necessarily swing them outside of their vertical space. So though I agree with your statement here, I disagree with the implicit supposition that a player might swing the elbows and initiate contact that is not a foul.
A player who pivots with elbows tucked into the body might end up contacting an opponent in a way that is not a foul, but that won't be contact by the elbows. It will be with the arm, body, etc.
I think it's a pretty safe proposition that swinging elbows + contact = foul. I take it that the reliability of this proposition explains why NFHS makes swinging elbows + no contact = violation.