Slap Check Rules

[LaxCheck101]

I'm 12 years old but i've been playing for 5 years. I play in NJ at the middle school level. I'm confused about what a legal poke check is. Your not alloud to poke directly to the body, but you can get the arm, hand and stick. But what is the rule with slap checks? In highschool i think that you can slap three times at a time, then hold off for a while, throw a poke check, and then slap three more times. Does anyone know what the rule is at the 6th 7th and 8th grade lvl?

[LaxRef]

I'm 12 years old but i've been playing for 5 years. I play in NJ at the middle school level. I'm confused about what a legal poke check is. Your not alloud to poke directly to the body, but you can get the arm, hand and stick. But what is the rule with slap checks?

The same as for poke checks, except technically you can't hit the arm with either, just the stick or the gloved hand on the stick.


In highschool i think that you can slap three times at a time, then hold off for a while, throw a poke check, and then slap three more times.

This has no basis in fact.

Does anyone know what the rule is at the 6th 7th and 8th grade lvl?

It depends on your league, but most of the time the stick check rules are the same. Body checks may be more restricted.

[Woodenstick]

Things that I believe will lead to a slapcheck being treated as a slash:

1. Contact with body other than glove. The further away from the stick the contact is, the worse it is. Contact with the back, legs etc. is bad, more than incidental contact (brush) with the neck/head is automatic slash

2. Hard contact/winding up - a wind-up better result in stick contact or a slash is likely.

3. Player out of control - if you are not in control, a slash can be called even with stick contact or no contact at all.

4. Repeated contact with the body - a ref may let you have 1 hit to the arm if it looks like you are trying to get stick, but repeated contact sends the message you are hacking.

[laxfan25]

Woody, couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm flying into CT this evening for a long weekend. I'm visiting family and joining with a group of Mini Cooper drivers (my late brother was one of them) for an event called Minis on Top. This year there will be 208 Minis driving to the top of Mt. Washington on Saturday - the rest of the weekend is a party.
I'm standing in for my brother Ed, who passed away very unexpectedly last July, right after the last Minis onTop. I had no idea about this "other side" of my brother, but soon found out how much of an impact he had - world-wide - through this thread on a Mini web site. His name on here was Maxamini - the first post is by his son Luke.
http://www.mini2.com/forum/new-york-new-england-region/96660-appreciation-maxamini.html?onlybyuserid=0&pp=15
It was a very moving and cathartic experience to read through these pages and pages of tributes - from all over the world. Quite remarkable.

[spenny]

sorry to hear about your brother. but as a fellow brit car guy (ive got a 1965 land rover), i love the mini owners.
many of the bit car owners turn up their noses when we show up at a show or rally, but the mini owners, they are great. always come by to talk, check out the trucks. lots of fun. enjoy the rally.