Balk Off win

bob jenkins · #1 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 22, 2010, 01:17pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by JR12

Doesnt the pumps, refer to his hands and arms?

Yes.

mbyron · #2 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 22, 2010, 01:31pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Yes.

He asked that because the OP seems to be about multiple steps before the pitch, and you commented that it wasn't a balk because F1 was just "pumping."

Frankly, I too wondered where you were going with that.

bob jenkins · #3 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 22, 2010, 01:55pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by mbyron

He asked that because the OP seems to be about multiple steps before the pitch, and you commented that it wasn't a balk because F1 was just "pumping."

Frankly, I too wondered where you were going with that.

Ah --

A pump includes (or can include) "rocking back and forth" from free foot to pivot foot. If that was the extent of the "stutter steps back and forth" (and I'm not saying it was -- only that I can envision it), then I probably don't have a balk.

mbyron · #4 (**permalink**) Tue Jun 22, 2010, 03:04pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Ah --

A pump includes (or can include) "rocking back and forth" from free foot to pivot foot. If that was the extent of the "stutter steps back and forth" (and I'm not saying it was -- only that I can envision it), then I probably don't have a balk.

Gotcha. I agree. I've even seen it:

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