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Y.M.C.A. Four-Wall Rules · American four-wall

Rule 13 Hinder

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

A hinder is—

(a) When the player is prevented by the proximity of a spectator from properly returning the ball.

(b) When a player interferes with another in such a manner as to prevent him from properly returning the ball.

(c) When the ball strikes any apparatus within the court lines and such apparatus is not higher than the service wall. A hinder shall count nothing.

Mentioned here

How these ideas connect in this rule

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3 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn.