Flagrant for an Elbow?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by EndEx

So what would it take for you to call a flagrant without the intent to injure?

It's a personal judgment by the calling official, same as with the intent to injure...and all flagrant fouls aamof.

You can't fit intentional or flagrant fouls into nice, neat compartmentalized brackets. Every play is unique and has to be called as such. And every play requires some degree of judgment before you make the final decision as to whether a foul actually occurred and then what kind of foul it was. Contact with a swinging elbow by a player with the ball is no different. Your options during a live ball are incidental contact, player control foul, intentional personal foul or flagrant personal foul. And you get to pick which option is appropriate for that particular play; no one can do it for you.