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Originally posted by senior
If it's done smoothly, without gaining ground toward home, it's all right.
Carl Childress researched this thoroughly, and got an authoritative opinion from PBUC on this very subject.
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While a RHF1 may move his left foot toward 1B as he simultaneously lifts it, he cannot raise his left leg upward, bending significantly at the knee, and then kick backward toward 1B. For a RHF1 to hang his left leg and then swing it heel first and back toward 1B is a balk. That's the reason why you don't repeatedly see that move at ANY level. The leniency provided a LHF1 to step toward 1B is provided the RHF1 toward 3B.
Senior, you'll have to enlighten me regarding this PBUC ruling. I've not seen it in the any of The BRD's I own. Perhaps one of us is confusing what the poster meant by his original question....or what we are reading in The BRD.
Freix