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What is the protocol for warm-up's in your area? We are proposing a rule to NHFS to give a team exclusive use of the playing area. In our league, we did this on a trial basis this fall, and it made all the teams safer. Normally, one team will have the use of the court, but the other team will shuttle on the back-line or side-line. This results in numerous balls that are shanked into the court causing a possible safety hazard.

In other rule sets --i.e. NCAA and USAV, the one team has exclusive use of the court, and the other team must be off of the playing area or at the team bench.