Stalling penalty increased

[Smooth34]

Sorry if this was already posted.  Didn't see it -- althought I didnt look very hard. 

 

 

NFHS RULES UPDATE: Stalling penalty increased in high school wrestling

 

Apr 26, 2012

 

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (April 26, 2012) ? High school wrestlers who are called for a third stalling violation will receive a stiffer penalty beginning with the 2012-13 season. In addition to the two-point penalty assessed for a third stalling violation, the opponent will now have his or her choice of position on the next restart.

 

The stalling penalty revision was one of eight rules changes approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Wrestling Rules Committee at its April 9-11 meeting in Indianapolis. The changes were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.

 

?The change to the third stalling penalty resulted from the committee?s desire to encourage wrestlers to wrestle aggressively by providing a greater incentive not to stall,? said Dale Pleimann, chair of the Wrestling Rules Committee and former assistant executive director of the Missouri State High School Activities Association. ?No one likes to see a wrestler disqualified for stalling. The hope is that by increasing the third stalling penalty, a wrestler who has been penalized twice will be encouraged to pick up the pace and wrestle more aggressively.?

 

In other changes, the committee adjusted the current dual meet weigh-in procedure to align with the random draw.

 

Bob Colgate, NFHS director of sports and sports medicine and staff liaison to the Wrestling Rules Committee, said this change would provide maximum preparation and warm-up time for the first contestants scheduled to compete in a dual meet.

 

Three new rules were approved by the committee, including Rule 4-3-5, which states that wrestlers ?may not wear wristbands, sweatbands or bicep bands during a match.? This rule was enacted in an effort to minimize risk of injury from wrestlers getting their fingers caught in an opponent?s wristband or sweatband.

 

Another new rule for 2012-13 is an exception to the 30-second tiebreaker. The new exception (8-2-1h) will read as follows:

 

?If the second injury time-out is taken at the conclusion of the first 30-second tiebreaker period and the opponent already has the choice at the beginning of the second 30-second tiebreaker period, the opponent would then have the added choice at the first restart after the beginning of the second 30-second tiebreaker period.?

 

This provision was a rule change last year for the regulation match and will now apply to the overtime as well.

 

Rule 10-2-9 will be added to next year?s rules to address what happens when two wrestlers in the championship bracket simultaneously cannot continue a match. If both wrestlers cannot continue because of disqualification for stalling or having their injury or blood time elapse, the wrestler who is leading on points at the time the match is terminated will continue in the consolation bracket. If the match is tied at the time of termination, neither wrestler will continue.

 

Following are the other three changes approved by the committee:

 

4-1-1a: Language has been updated to describe the wrestler?s singlet, and the change will also allow the T-shirt with no sleeves to be worn under the one-piece singlet when approved by the referee.

 

5-11-2i: Rules language was expanded to complete the near-fall and penalty sequence.

 

10-3-6 and 10-3-7: The tournament bracket format was revised to allow more flexibility in conducting a tournament.

 

?The NFHS Wrestling Rules Committee confirmed that the sport of high school wrestling is in great shape overall by making only a few changes to the scholastic rules,? Pleimann said.

 

Wrestling is the sixth-most popular sport for boys at the high school level with 273,732 participants in 10,407 schools during the 2010-11 season, according to the NFHS Athletics Participation Survey. In addition, 7,351 girls were involved in wrestling in 1,215 high schools.

[Y2CJ41]

How can people keep up with the constant rule changes in this sport?

[WaltHarris]

This will have ZERO material impact on stalling in folkstyle.  We all know it.  Kids who are taught to stall by their coach will continue to plant their heels on the line and sit there for 6 minutes.

 

If the NFHS would grow up, they would adopt the FILA rules which are proven to combat fleeing the mat, constant going out of bounds and stalling.  Alas, the NFHS continues in their cowardly ways because heaven forbid they take a good idea from international wrestling and apply it folkstyle.

[TripleB]

Man I give up on folkstyle... It's gives me a headache... What is it 6-10 rule changes a year?

[Pski]

I did not know you could even wrestle with a headband on?

 

[AJ]

 

If the NFHS would grow up, they would adopt the FILA rules which are proven to combat fleeing the mat, constant going out of bounds and stalling.  Alas, the NFHS continues in their cowardly ways because heaven forbid they take a good idea from international wrestling and apply it folkstyle.

 

are you serious???  Fila needs to bring back passivity!!!!  fila rules may stop going out of bounds but that is it...

[charger.dad]

stalling is the most abused rule in high school wrestling because we make it to easy to do by not penalizing the first time you start backing up .....it's one thing when 2 guys are pushing hard against each other and one has the advantage but it becomes painfully obvious when you're up 4-2 with 30 seconds to go  and you can back up and just get a warning and then back up some more and give up a point and eat up those 30 seconds....if you are in a match you should have to wrestle and stay in contact with your opponent otherwise you get penalized.....no backing up or worse yet running away which i have seen more than once.....our sport would get alot more respect if this was the way it was.......but then again i think if you get the death penalty you should be done the next day, not sit on death row for 20 years......whats the use?......if you make a rule or law, then stick to it.....no maybes.....if you stall and back up you give away points....i would make it one point right away, 2 points the next time and forfiet if you do it again......if you came to wrestle, wrestle......this sport is called wrestling, right?

[feez]

stalling is the most abused rule in high school wrestling because we make it to easy to do by not penalizing the first time you start backing up .....it's one thing when 2 guys are pushing hard against each other and one has the advantage but it becomes painfully obvious when you're up 4-2 with 30 seconds to go  and you can back up and just get a warning and then back up some more and give up a point and eat up those 30 seconds....if you are in a match you should have to wrestle and stay in contact with your opponent otherwise you get penalized.....no backing up or worse yet running away which i have seen more than once.....our sport would get alot more respect if this was the way it was.......but then again i think if you get the death penalty you should be done the next day, not sit on death row for 20 years......whats the use?......if you make a rule or law, then stick to it.....no maybes.....if you stall and back up you give away points....i would make it one point right away, 2 points the next time and forfiet if you do it again......if you came to wrestle, wrestle......this sport is called wrestling, right?

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