Handchecking?

[Back In The Saddle]

Got into an interesting rules discussion with my assigner recently. He doesn't call handchecks. Not because he doesn't think it's a foul, but because handchecking doesn't exist in the rule book.

Now you know I don't get too tightly wound about terminology, but it turns out he's right. I can't find the word anywhere. But we've got a signal for it. I don't think there's much disagreement about what handchecking is. But there's no rule that defines it.

Weird.