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Old Sun Sep 23, 2012, 12:42am
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Mendy Trent View Post
You lost me. How can you cause contact if you are stationary?
By extending the arms outside the frame of the body. They can be entirely stationary but in a position that is not legal if the opponent runs into them. The person with the arms extended "caused" the contact by having the arms in a position where they'd be hit.

And forget about "cause contact" for determining who a foul is on. Causing contact is not necessarily illegal. What is illegal is being in an illegal position or moving in a non-permissible direction when contact occurs, regardless of who caused it.
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