USHA One-Wall Rules · American one-wall, small ball
Under Part 4, Rule 4.8G: Interpretation No. 18
HistoricalUSHA One-Wall Rules, 14 October 1994 (historical)
USHA rules text used with permission of the U.S. Handball Association (ushandball.org); credit: U.S. Handball Association. Source: ushandball.org
A player hitting the ball is entitled to stroke the ball without being in danger of contacting an opponent during the stroke. The stroke includes the backswing as well as the follow-through of the arm. If a player is contacted by the follow-through motion of the player hitting the ball, an avoidable hinder should be called, assuming the player who was hit could have avoided the interference with
reasonable effort. This interference might not have affected the shot, but it doesn't matter if the ball reaches the wall or not. This avoidable hinder must be called for safety reasons.
Playing too close can cause serious injury, and the referee should forfeit the offending player if this type of positioning continues.
Mentioned here
How these ideas connect in this rule
- Actor
- Action
- Thing
- related term
- mentioned together in sub-rules (×number)
- Player relates to Opponent: mentioned together in 20 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Referee: mentioned together in 29 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Hinder: mentioned together in 22 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Ball: mentioned together in 32 sub-rules.
- Opponent relates to Hinder: mentioned together in 12 sub-rules.
- Opponent relates to Ball: mentioned together in 19 sub-rules.
- Referee relates to Hinder: mentioned together in 14 sub-rules.
- Referee relates to Ball: mentioned together in 21 sub-rules.
- Hinder relates to Ball: mentioned together in 23 sub-rules.
No link to the other terms shown: Avoidable hinder, Forfeit / default, Wall. 14 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.