Contact above the shoulders

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Sharpshooternes

If anyone is even close to this player and they are pivoting with elbows out I am getting them for a violation.

If the player is pivoting normally, and not swinging the elbows faster than the torso, you can't call a violation by rule.

[ref3808]

4-24-8 leaves a lot of room for an official to call a violation.

b. The aggressiveness with which the arms and elbows are swung would cause injury to another player if contacted.

There's a lot of leeway there I think especially when we're instructed to "promptly and unhesitatingly rule such action with arms and elbows a violation"

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Contact above the shoulders with a moving elbow will be a foul. This foul may be intentional or may be an excessive flagrant foul.

How about a player control foul, or a common foul?

[OKREF]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

How about a player control foul, or a common foul?

That is addressed in our direction. If the elbow is stationary it is a common foul. If moving it is either intentional or flagrant.