Tricks Coaches Teach

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While at camp last week, a coach happened to be sitting by us refs and he turned around to tell us that the rules can never keep up with the tricks that some coaches teach. For example he said that when the hand checking rule first came out he taught his kids to hold there hands straight out when guarding and to jab the opponents with the ends of their fingers. He stated that a foul was never called on his team for this.

He also said that he taught his post defenders to pinch the sides of the offensive players posting up. The referees would never see this but would see the offensive player throwing the retaliatory elbow.

When I used to coach, I never thought of teaching such evil and illegal manuevers. Has anyone else here heard of similar techniques that we officials need to be on the lookout for?