Pulled foot mechanic and timing

[Bfair]

Rich, I agree totally with your mechanic, and that's what most use. Still, with the speed of the game, you don't get half way from behind the rubber to a corner base---not with the speed of the throws of college players. Unless, of course, you are continuing to move with the play as the throw is being received. But I was taught to set and freeze the camera..........

You can say it on paper, Rich, and it's frequently highly effective on the field. Yet there are rarities when it is not, and those are the times we have been discussing. IMO, it's better to admit that they exist---as rare as they may be---than deny that they don't. That split second throw can pull F3 in a direction straight toward the BU, and you can't see it as well as PU. It's a flaw inherent with the 2-man system, and not a weakness of the umpire.

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