How long is 5 and 10 seconds?

[mick]

Originally posted by rainmaker

mick -- for the record, I'm left-handed, too, but I gotta disagree with you. I hated the way it felt -- I felt like a bleepin' windmill. But at one of the biggest games of the season about two years ago, I was watching one of our best refs do exactly this routine. left left right right, etc. I figured if he could do it, I could too.

Jewel,
Well you aren't alone in disagreement with my counting technique. My college count is that way, ...the windmill.

I have never been one to defend improper mechanics, and I do not make that attempt here. Yet the necessity of the perfectly sychronized visible count during routine action escapes me. Whether I visibly count, or mentally count, my timing counts are very accurate, and that is much closer to the spirit and the intent of the rules of timing requirements than that of a continually swinging arm in increments of 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 seconds. Am I wrong? YU.P. That mechanic seems silly.

The CCA manuals and the NFHS manuals are quite clear that the visible count should be used.

mick

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