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<blockquote data-quote="smartcooky" data-source="post: 713851" data-attributes="member: 20605"><p>A very good article, but he has this bit wrong</p><p></p><p>[TEXTAREA]<strong>Binding in a maul</strong></p><p>I noticed in the comments to last week's article that some people were making reference to the law saying, "… must use the whole arm from hand to shoulder to grasp the team-mate's body at or below the level of the armpit. Placing only a hand on another player is not satisfactory binding."</p><p></p><p> That definition is from law 20.3 and is specifically for binding in a scrum – it isn't a definition of binding that applies to mauls. <strong>There is no requirement to grasp a player or where to bind on a player in relation to mauls.</strong> The law regarding binding in a maul simply says "Placing a hand on another player in the maul does not constitute binding".[/TEXTAREA]</p><p></p><p></p><p>What he has done is looked for the definition of binding in a maul; and didn't find one. That is because there isn't one. Instead there is a definition of binding in the General Definitions on page 4 of the Law book</p><p><em></em></p><p><em>"Binding: Grasping firmly another player's body between the shoulders and the hips with the whole arm in contact from hand to shoulder."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p>This covers binding in rucks & mauls. Wherever you see the word "bind" or "binding" in the Law, this definition applies, except where it is superseded by a bind definition in a Law, peculiar to that Law, such as in the scrum law, which specifies additional binding requirements for props, hookers, locks etc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smartcooky, post: 713851, member: 20605"] A very good article, but he has this bit wrong [TEXTAREA][B]Binding in a maul[/B] I noticed in the comments to last week’s article that some people were making reference to the law saying, “… must use the whole arm from hand to shoulder to grasp the team-mate’s body at or below the level of the armpit. Placing only a hand on another player is not satisfactory binding.” That definition is from law 20.3 and is specifically for binding in a scrum – it isn’t a definition of binding that applies to mauls. [B]There is no requirement to grasp a player or where to bind on a player in relation to mauls.[/B] The law regarding binding in a maul simply says “Placing a hand on another player in the maul does not constitute binding”.[/TEXTAREA] What he has done is looked for the definition of binding in a maul; and didn't find one. That is because there isn't one. Instead there is a definition of binding in the General Definitions on page 4 of the Law book [I] "Binding: Grasping firmly another player’s body between the shoulders and the hips with the whole arm in contact from hand to shoulder."[/I] This covers binding in rucks & mauls. Wherever you see the word "bind" or "binding" in the Law, this definition applies, except where it is superseded by a bind definition in a Law, peculiar to that Law, such as in the scrum law, which specifies additional binding requirements for props, hookers, locks etc [/QUOTE]
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