WAA Rule Proposals

As per Carol's request, here is a new thread to discuss and propose rule changes for the WAA...

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i [heart] porridge

Here is the actual request

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An aquifer is a water bearing layer of rock or soil. Aquifers are separated by impermeable layers of rock or clay called an aquitard. Aquitard, however may sound a bit offensive to some, and therefore we will be changing the name to Aquachallenge.

thank you very much ........

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Carol Rose

In the other rules thread Liam posted an Idea that I think has merit.
Playing the puck off the bottom being allowed.
My brother and I have talked about it for a while and it isn't easy. It does not make any sense not to allow moving the puck in the water column as long as the stick rules etc. are not changed.

In our local club game last night a player stuffed my pass,the puck hot up into the air, then "caught" the falling puck on his stick and moved it across his body. This allowed him to change direction away from me very cleanly. An impressive move to say the least. But it is illegal by the current rules.
Rule 14.1.6
Rule 16.3.7

Could the rules be deleted or reworded? IS there any interest in this change?

B-

Just say a skill/play such as this was allowed... would there be a duration of time inforced for how long the puck may be lifted by one person, or how high off the bottom? I imagine as soon as a ruling is made which allowed lifting/carrying of the puck with the stick, players will use it. It would also be difficult to legally steal the puck from the player as the playing surface is no longer the pool bottom, but the opposing player's stick.

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i [heart] porridge

Scrap the offside rule.

I fail to see the merit of it.

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Faster than a speeding puck...

I see you failed to read the criteria for making rule proposal(s). I must have the following:

1) number of rule to change or to be added
precise wording of rule to be changed or added
2) other rule numbers affected by this change
3) reason for rule change
4) precise wording of new or changed rule

'Scraping the offside rule' does not meet any of these criteria. And according to my word search of current rules, the word 'offside' does not occur anywhere in the rules.

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Carol Rose

i agree, the offside rule is ruining the game. also we should look into removing the restrictions on forward passes.

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

with you on that one too.

Aaaah, no, I read them.

AHA!!!!! Got you now Carol... since I for one HAVE been called offside before in an underwater hockey game: in 1987. It must be in there somewhere, right? It stopped me scoring a goal too, confounded rule!!



Liam, agree totally on the forward pass rule also - hard to see a difference at the moment between underwater hcokey and American Football.

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Faster than a speeding puck...