High School mechanic

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Reffing Hoosier

Who stops the clock with an open hand before you signal for a player control foul?? Or (like me) go directly to the block/charge call in an effor to better sell the call.

My association had a long discussion about this mechanic in an effort to avoid the "blarge".

Neither. Stop the clock with a fist. Make sure your partner isn't going to sell something opposite of what you have. Then give the PC or block signal.

[Adam]

When I went through my first "official" camp, a beginner's camp in 1997, we were taught on PCs to go straight to the PC call. On blocks, we were taught to stop the clock with the fist first and then go with the prelim. At the time, we were told the PC signal was also a stop-clock signal. Was this ever true?