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Deshong Four-Wall Rules · American four-wall

Rule 5 Hinders

HistoricalDeshong Four-Wall Rules, 1893 (historical)

Historical rulebook: not the current rules. The current rules are here (USHA Four-Wall Rulebook, as of 26 January 2025).

A hinder is when a ball strikes your opponent and retards it from reaching the front wall. For instance, if the recoverer of service should strike either of his opponents with the ball on the way to its destination, it is termed a hinder. If said recoverer, however, strikes his partner instead of an opponent, it is an ace against him. Then again, if the server should be hit by his partner’s ball it is a hand out. A great many of these hindrances are accidents pure and simple, but in some instances they can be avoided, and, if in the opinion of the referee the hinder was intentional, an ace can be counted against the side committing it, or a hand be declared out just as the case may be. A server at work frequently hits his partner while standing within the ace line; this is also called a hinder. If a ball from a server strikes either of his opponents, before or after bounding, it becomes non-playable and is counted an ace.

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Opponent actorPartner actorReceiver actorReferee actorServer actorAce actionHand-out actionHinder actionFront wall placeShort line placeBall thingWall thing

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