{"id":1378,"date":"2017-09-26T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2017-09-26T13:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:29:45","slug":"know-the-rules-when-does-passing-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/know-the-rules-when-does-passing-occur\/","title":{"rendered":"Know the Rules: When Does Passing Occur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rule:<\/strong> Pursuant to USA Fencing Rule t21.3, \u201chalt\u201d will be called by the referee when a fencer goes <em>\u201ccompletely past\u201d<\/em> the other fencer. Thus, referees should be cautious not to call \u201chalt\u201d too early for passing. The USA Fencing Referee\u2019s Commission provides guidance: Fencers are \u201ccompletely past\u201d one another if their entire torsos (shoulder to shoulder) no longer overlap. Basically, if you can see daylight between the fencers\u2019 torsos, they\u2019ve passed. Similarly, a highly-rated referee opined that he calls passing when there is a \u201cbutt gap\u201d between the two fencers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A FEW POINTS ON PASSING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Touches:<\/strong> FIE Rule t.21.4 states that with respect to the fencer who is doing the passing \u2014 as a fencer passes his opponent, the touch made immediately is valid, but a touch made after passing is annulled; with respect to the opponent who is being passed, a touch immediately made (even when turning around) after the passing is valid. Clearly, for a referee, this call is a fairly difficult one to make and relies on the referee\u2019s identification of when the passing occurred and possibly how immediate the opponent\u2019s touch was (as well as, on some occasion, determining who was doing the passing). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Placement:<\/strong> If no touch is awarded, both fencers should be placed in the positions which they occupied before the passing took place. Note also that if the passing fencer is also out-of-bounds, the referee must determine which offensive action occurred first \u2014 the Passing or the Out-of-Bounds. If the Out-of-Bounds occurred first, then there is effectively no Passing, and the fencer who went off the lateral boundary will be placed back one meter from where such fencer\u2019s action began (resulting in a point awarded to the opponent if the fencer was situated within one meter of the fencer\u2019s own rear end-line).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule: Pursuant to USA Fencing Rule t21.3, \u201chalt\u201d will be called by the referee when a fencer goes \u201ccompletely past\u201d the other fencer. Thus, referees should be cautious not to call \u201chalt\u201d too early for passing. The USA Fencing Referee\u2019s Commission provides guidance: Fencers are \u201ccompletely past\u201d one another if their entire torsos (shoulder to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.socaldivision.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}