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Originally Posted by Dakota
You are allowed (by clinician training) to adjust. What they teach against is continually adjusting based on subsequent playing action.
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Ding Ding Ding! That's what I've been trying to say all along!
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Originally Posted by Dakota
Nonetheless, we're told by those that should know that using "by how much distance she was out" as your deciding factor is not a reliable indicator, and this can go both ways. As I wrote above, your 15 feet may sound like a dead duck out even with the OBS, but that distance likely would have been covered by the runner in under a second.
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I can agree with that. Perhaps my reference to 15 feet was not extreme enough. I was just trying to compare two scenarios where it is obvious that the obstruction affected the result of one and not the other.
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