Long strings

[nandakjohwah]

some players just walk off the field without hands in the air but usually you can tell the difference between someone moving to a bunker and someone leaving the game

i always have my hands up and half of the time end up getting pelted with paint

i think the majority of people should have the brains to tell the difference between leaving and moving

as for dead man's walk, don't the majority of fields ban this now?

 

[Wadidiz]

Originally posted by nandakjohwah
some players just walk off the field without hands in the air but usually you can tell the difference between someone moving to a bunker and someone leaving the game

i always have my hands up and half of the time end up getting pelted with paint

i think the majority of people should have the brains to tell the difference between leaving and moving

as for dead man's walk, don't the majority of fields ban this now?

I have to again go with what Simon sez. In tournaments and practice, when you look out and see any opponent walking or running in any directions without a marker or hand in the air, he or she is my legal pray. We not going to risk watching and studying to see if the player may be a stupid one who doesn't have the since to signal elimination. My job is to mark such a player: the player's job is to signal elimination while quickly getting off the field. After a few times of being stupid the said player will learn.

This is tournament talk and that's the way it is in the big leagues.

STeve

 

[nandakjohwah]

hmm

doesnt a player running off the field look more suspicious than a player walking off the field?

 

[Wadidiz]

Not if his marker or hand is in the air.

[edited addition:]

Count on your resident theologian to quote pertinent scripture:
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10.03. Such players [ones that are hit] must then remove their armbands, barrel sock and hold the markers in the air above their heads and exit the field immediately by the most direct routes or upon the instructions of a field judge, if given.
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From NPPL 2002 rules. My emphasis.

Steve

 

[nandakjohwah]

sometime when ive been playing for a long period of time i get too tired to hold my marker up in the air with one hand

so i just run off the field as if i were sprinting from a break or i'll end up just walking off the field


by the way.. i noticed something and tested it..

i noticed that when i wear a mask with a flexible mouth cover, the paints always pass through easier compared to if i were using a mask with a hard mouth cover

but i cant tell if the cause is the material or the ventilation ports


another test i made by using myself as the subject was that with the flexible guard is that the chances of the mask bouncing back and hitting you in the face is significantly higher than using a non-flex

tested this at 40ft range, 60ft range, 75ft range, and 100ft range

with a non-flex the paint just hits the mask and only a small amount passes through compared to a flex

also with the ranged hits, the chances of the balls bouncing off the flex are very small.. at 130+ft range the balls were still breaking, i think the flex guards are probably more useful for rec-ball

i think that when the ball is mishaped by the firing and reshaped by the air surrounding it, the ball becomes slightly more fragile

i've noticed sometimes when shooting at air bunkers, the balls wont break 70% of the time

when i tested a flexible mouth piece mask, the balls broke all the time, i still haven't seen any bounce

 

[Wadidiz]

nandak, do you have a cousin by the name of joe bob by any chance?

 

[Gee]

Originally posted by Wadidiz
nandak, do you have a cousin by the name of joe bob by any chance?

He's great for checking if the ignore list works (it does!)

 

[nandakjohwah]

nope why?

 

[Wadidiz]

Just a similar writing style.

By the way you might get some feed-back on your mask idea in the technical section. (Egad, I'm beginning to sound like a mod.)

Steve

 

[nandakjohwah]

yeah a mod sent me an email already