Elbow Swing

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I was under the impression, for interpretation purposes, that the unofficial definition, for purposes of calling the swinging elbow violation, was the elbow moving (rotating) faster than the body? How can we have an elbow moving faster than the body but not excessive? Do we have two different unofficial definitions of an excessively swinging elbow, one for a violations, and another one for fouls, of various types?

In a pivot/step where the upper body is moving in sync with the feet, perhaps with the elbows up and mostly out of the way and there happens to be contact with an elbow. I'm not going intentional on that. I might not even have a foul on that.

Twisting at the waist with the elbow out but not viciously, intentional.

Slinging them hard at someone, flagrant.