BlueCat
Roses are red, cats are blue
- Dec 14, 2009
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Do you feel this has put you at an advantage, seeing as now your athletes can see where every potential legality is?
I imagine, that while confusing if you weren't expecting it, particularly on the OOB- on the other hand it provides you with an early-season verification of how everything needs to be done in order to avoid unintentional mistakes.
The out-of-bounds isn't particularly relevant, as other competitions essentially give you another 300 square feet to work with. (You typically can land on the red border without penalty.)
You definitely want to find out which side of the grey-area fence you are on early rather than late. I don't think most people appreciate how challenging it is to know where some of your more creative elements will fall along those lines. Our sport covers a huge amount of athletic range and the rules are surprisingly complicated. It is hard to know exactly how far you can push the guidelines until you go beyond them. There are also simple performance errors that make something "accidentally" illegal as well.