We played our weekly game this eve, and it was a bit of a blowout. The abnormal part about the blowout was that we were on the winning side. I kinda ran up and down the sidelines, but didn’t do a whole lot. We had decided to stick to short throws, because the long throws were killing the opposition, and it really wasn’t fun. <\/p>\n
Of course, in typical “do as I say, not as I do”, I ended the game by throwing a 25yd bomb to coop<\/a>. As soon as I let it go I remembered, and everyone on my team reminded me that I wasn’t supposed to do that. It did look pretty from where I was standing, though I still felt bad.<\/p>\n I’ve noticed a new tactic being employed, and I’ve mentioned it in the rules discussion forum<\/a> on the OCUA site<\/a>. It’s very annoying, but there is a loophole which makes it a grey area. The game which originally triggered the question was cool – I discussed it with the team members, and we figured it was a defensive pick (best analogy I can come up with) and probably was obstruction.<\/p>\n Last night was a little different. I was faster than the guy who was marking me all night long. Every<\/em> time I started to cut, he’d raise his arms and try to step in front of me before I ran by him. The disc was never in the air, and was usually at least 10 yards away from either of us. When I asked him to stop, his response was “I’m allowed to make a play on the disc, so it’s my right”.<\/p>\n Dear Doofus – that’s obstruction, knock it the fuck off. A few things:<\/p>\n We were way ahead, so I didn’t want to call anything, nor did I want to run into you just to call the foul\/make a point. Instead of resorting to tactics that attempt to interfere\/slow me down then saying you were making a play on the disc (a pretty good indicator you’d contest anything I’d call), how about playing positional D or actually waiting until the disc is thrown to try to make a play on it. <\/p>\n If the disc is still in the handlers’ possession, it’s really fucking hard to claim you’re making a play on a block. But, if you play lawyer, you probably have a loophole. I’ll just have to run faster, is all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We played our weekly game this eve, and it was a bit of a blowout. The abnormal part about the blowout was that we were on the winning side. I kinda ran up and down the sidelines, but didn’t do a whole lot. We had decided to stick to short throws, because the long throws […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n