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		<title>Field Hockey Rules. Advantage played.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 23:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Field Hockey Rules.    Advantage played.    Ball/body contact.    Dangerous Play http://www.ehlhockey.tv/video/umpire-bodycam-and-video-umpire-khc-dragons-vs-hc-bloemendaal I am intrigued that it can be said that the umpire missed the body contact completely and at the same time &#8216;played advantage&#8217; &#8211; he can&#8217;t have done both can he? He either didn&#8217;t see the contact, so could not make a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=4023&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Hockey Rules: Inventing Rule Guidance.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cut from the article &#8220;Text following the interpretation&#8221; to create a new article. Why is the UMB divisive? Why is it published at all when all that is in it could (and should) be contained within the rule book? The Umpire Managers Briefing for Umpires at FIH Tournaments &#8211; an FIH Umpiring Committee publication &#8211; in regard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=4016&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Hockey Rules: Free Ball &#8211; Suggestions.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Field Hockey Rules. Free Hit (which should be termed Free Ball of Free Pass or Free Start to avoid the contradiction &#8221; A Free Hit may be lifted directly with any stroke except a hit&#8221;) Unraveling the tangle that has been made of the Free ball since the introduction of the Self-pass.  . Suggestions   1. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3982&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Hockey Rules: Conflicting interpretation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:17:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legitimate. Conforming to laws or rules or to accepted or established  principles or standards. Valid – able to be defended with logic or justification as necessary. Genuine Legitimate evasive action. An action taken to evade the ball which is necessary to avoid the possibility of being injured by it. A dangerously played ball is a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3967&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Hockey Rules: Rule text following &#8216;interpretation&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 07:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Umpire Manager&#8217;s Briefing, for Umpires at FIH Tournaments, takes the place of the Rules of Hockey. (a document that should still be contained within the Rules Of Hockey, from where it originated) What the existing interpretations are is not mentioned, so that advice reads like an Article of Faith (i.e. as if to say [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3956&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field Hockey Rules. Forced voluntarily.</title>
		<link>http://martinzigzag.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/field-hockey-rules-forced-voluntarily/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 01:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syllogism. A pattern of deductive reasoning consisting of two premises and a conclusion – which may be valid or invalid, depending on what conclusion is arrived at by the reasoning of the person giving the conclusion. Example.         Premise one.      All men are mortal. Premise two.      Socrates is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3806&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Field-Hockey Rules. Nomenclature</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules of Hockey. Terminology. Naming. The Direct Lift Mandatory Experiment has thrown up a paradox. A Free-Hit may be lifted directly with any stroke except a hit. It is surprising that the FIH Rules Committee did not alter the term for the penalty because they have made alterations to terminology elsewhere.  The game used to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3820&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of Hockey. Self-Pass. Speed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules of Hockey. Self-Pass. Speed. Playing the ball into the circle. Edited 23rd April 2013. The Australian Coach Michael Nobbs, Coach of the Indian Senior Men&#8217;s team, quoted in the Hindi newspaper. “The biggest change in hockey is the play-on rule: the self-pass rule from free hits. That has sped the game up astronomically; the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3735&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of Hockey. Deletion and Amendment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules of Hockey. Penalties. Free-Hit. Raised Hit. A suggested deletion. 13.2.f from a free hit awarded to the attack within the 23 metres area, the ball must not be played into the circle until it has travelled at least 5 metres or has been touched by a player of either team other than the player [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3716&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rules of Hockey. &#8216;Foot&#8217; con</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rules of Hockey. &#8216;Foot&#8217;. Forcing. &#8220;Gains benefit&#8221;. Confusion and con. I included these opening posts when posting the entire discussion thread in my article Loopy Vicious Circles  http://wp.me/pKOEk-VF  on April 1st. but did not comment on the individual posts except to say that some of the contributors seemed to be unaware of the topic of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=martinzigzag.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11157788&#038;post=3681&#038;subd=martinzigzag&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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