Is it legal to push back the opponent while posting

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Amesman

Let me clarify: A2 is not jumping, but rather digging in for the box-out. There's a total straight-lining there.

....asked later if he was really getting the pressure from behind and he said yes.

So, if A2 wasn't displaced, that means that A2 is applying just as much pressure in the opposite direction....Newton says so.

So, who is really doing the pushing? One player wants to move their opponent in, and the other wants to move their opponent out.....or they want to resist being displaced. Both are applying pressure in roughly equal amounts. Only when one displaces the other (or it becomes too rough) does the contact become a foul....and either one could be the guilty party.