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From: "Rob Mitchell"<admrwm@ccg.acu.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE: Rule clarification article.
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> Spirit/Rule Discussion from North America
> Enjoy!

This doesn't make Vancouver sound like the safest place to play, but the guys
suggestions for the 'right' way to play and call fouls don't sound a million
miles from the way we usually play over here.

Except this...

> Airspace  - Airspace is what's above you.  You own everything up to
> heaven.  Hence another player can't put a hand over your head to knock
> the disc away.  Watch the better players and you'll see them jump up
> side-by-side (with a defender often unable to make the play 
> because his
> check has position.  Again, position, and who has it, is a very
> important part of the game to higher level players).
> 
> You also cannot reach completely over another player and swat 
> it down in
> front of her.  I saw this in a recent game, the Y player insisting, "I
> didn't touch her."

i'm sure everyone knows this rule, but when's the last time you heard it called?
And when's the last time you saw Lee or Paulo or any other freakish deformity
leap up and get a D over a normal sized (that's five-nine) players head? And can
you imagine the response from one of those bad-tempered Catch boys if you pulled
them up for it? I wonder whether it's a rule worth keeping. 

Rob
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