Striking with fist
 

This violation, along with 10 seconds to shoot an FT, are two I've never seen called in my life. Anyway, last night, Men's Wreck League, point guard gets an inbound pass in his backcourt, all by himself, dribbles once, and the second dribble is whack-a-mole style, downward strike with the bottom of his fist, mad about something I guess. He continues his dribble and I call nothing, because it is rec league.

It got me to thinking about this, however. I was trying to decide if I would call it in a HS game. I mean, of course I'd call it at any level if any other player was near the fist-in-motion. But do I get this if the same situation as described above happens in a HS JV or V game?

I asked my partner but I don't know how much faith to put in his response. He said he wouldn't call it, but he doesn't call much apparently. Between games one of the guys who knew him was telling him a story about a T he got recently. His guy was getting "hammered in there" and he went to the official who was putting his whistle in his mouth, so he said, "if you are going to put your whistle in your mouth, blow it!" and got pinned. I said I'd T him too and my partner said "for what?" as he laughed.

If it were to happen as you stated I would have a chat with that player and tell him not to do it again (then again I havent seen a player do it the way you described). I called this once but it was off a rebound. Player used his fist to clear the ball. If he played soccer it would have been a beautiful save.

This topic comes up a couple times a year. I called it once in a B-V game. Defensive player punched a long rebound upcourt to a teammate on a fast break. I hit the whistle out of instinct. The whole gyn looked puzzled. I explained it to the coach next time I was near him. He thanked me and mentioned that they had done that several times that season an no one ever called them on it.

Incidentally, the player that punched the ball is now playing on a D1 scholarship.

...pass.

But, this was JV-Boys basketball and the receiving player of a rolled pass decided to let it make contact with his foot so he could toe-flick it up into his hands.

Uh... no.

Paul

Which goes to show you that even THIS old excuse can be true once in a blue moon!

What's the proper mechanic for calling this?

A bicycle kick.

Or if you want to go to the pre 2002 mechanic then you would do this...

http://www.joopitup.com/uploaded_ima...ken-745964.jpg

Note that there's no rule against a player striking his coach with his fist. I hope they don't change that.

That isn't Double Dragon, is it? :)

Street Fighter .... OHHHH-YOUGETTT

I had a situation where the player punched the ball with his fist as well to advance the ball to a teammate. Only time I have ever had to call it. Gave the kick signal and said, "Punching the ball." Players thought it looked funny that I used a kicking motion to call punching.

Why would you use a kick signal?

That is what I was taught to use at a camp where we covered violations in the classroom. There is no approved signal for fist and this official's reasoning was that it was grouped with kick, but to specify that it was for punching the ball verbally.

I have stated this in a past post on Fisting. I saw a girl do in to begin the game. I know your minds are in the gutter..... but she punched the ball on the opening jump ball.
As mentioned by others, I have seen it called when a player punched the ball during a rebounding action.

TRAVEL, KICK, FIST

I wonder why it isn't the Traveling with the Kick.
["And awaaay we go!" - Jackie Gleason with a little Traveling music]

Been to several camps but never heard that before. Interesting reasoning.

We were told to close your fist and strike the palm of your other hand when making this call. Never had to do it as of yet and this is year 30.

I was C in a game this year when a caught a girl doing it in front of lead. She was trying to save the ball from going OOB, but the L called her for being OOB when she hit it. I told her on the way down the court that it was against the rules to punch the ball.

"For real?"
"yeah."

At participating locations only.
 

mick: This is almost exactly what my interpreter said after I asked him about the this rule last year. I had called the violation after one player punched the ball to his teammate, while both were alone, with no defenders, in the backcourt. I won't make that call again.

NCAA ruling
 

I am pretty sure that we got a bulletin on this for NCAA games and the strike with a fist is to be handled in the same manner as a kick. Reset clock to 15 if under 15 seconds at time of violation.

Resurrection thread
 

Actually called my first fisting violation, Boys JV. Missed shot, defensive player surrounded by 3 offensive players jumps and punches the rebound towards his front court.

In order to keep the ladies in the crowd from getting excited, I chose verbalize the violations as "he punched the ball". :D

I actually had a 10 second FT violation a couple of weeks ago, the first I have ever called or seen. Girls soph game two shot foul. First free throw I was a little slow in starting my count and got to about 9 and half. Second free throw, I payed more attention because the first took so long. Got to 12 and she still hadn't shot. Tweet. Send it.

Here's the only fist violation I've called last year. It was a double whistle and the two of us used the same "mechanic" for punching the ball... and we didn't even pregame it!

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Looked like you guys were driving a big rig in the disco days.

Funny. It was a dumb play, too. She could have just grabbed it.