Dodgeball is a team sport in which players on two teams try to throw balls and hit opponents, while avoiding being hit themselves. USA Dodgeball is the governing entity for dodgeball in the United States, with member leagues and clubs across the nation. Opponents of the game argue that not only is throwing things at other people not behavior we want to encourage in youth, dodgeball can lead to bullying, injury, and in some cases, lawsuits.
Dodgeball is currently banned from many elementary and secondary schools across the country. In this video, another attorney explains when you might be able to sue a school district for a sports injury.
School officials know of no California school district that has officially banned the game. Most local districts, like Los Angeles Unified School District, leave it up to individual schools whether they let kids make human targets out of their classmates. Philip Ferguson is generally regarded as the person most responsible for taking dodgeball over to America and popularising it.
He saw the boys of St. The rubber coatings themselves tend to be thinner and prone to tearing in this price range. These dodgeballs are considerably more expensive than other varieties because each ball is filled with foam, rather than air. Identical to a volleyball court. The number of balls used in a regulation game is six 6. Four 4 8. When all female players have been eliminated from the game, male players can then throw the 7?
Male players can only do the following with the 7? In both instances their throw will not count and the person they hit with the female dodgeball will remain in play. One cotton wristband on each wrist is acceptable. Teams will alternate sides following halftime. This may be done by: 1. Causing an opponent to lose control of a held ball as a result of contact by a thrown LIVE ball usually occurs when a ball is being used to block a thrown ball 4. An opposing player stepping out of bounds. A player may block a thrown ball with a ball being held, provided the holder does not lose control of the held ball as a result of the contact with the thrown ball.?
The held ball does not need to strike the ground to cause the holder to be OUT, only be knocked loose of the holder? Even if the holder regains control of the held ball, they are still out. Any actions by the holder after the initial loss control are ignored.
A live ball deflecting off the body of Player? If Player? Teammates of? In fact, touching of the deflected ball by another player causes it to become dead.
Once a player is OUT, they must drop any balls in hand and exit the playing field at the sideline determined by the official.? If an OUT player intentionally contacts a live ball or interferes in any way with play before exiting the playing field the officials may call OUT an additional member of their team as a penalty for interference.
Once a teammate makes a legal catch defined below the first eliminated player in line may re-enter the game and is granted a three 3 second grace period prior to opponents being able to throw balls at them.
During the three 3 second grace period, the player re-entering is not yet eligible to throw balls at the opposing team, nor can they catch the opposing team ball until the grace period has ended. Kicking the dodgeball? A warning will be passed onto a player who kicks any ball.? A second violation, that player will be OUT. Result: thrower is out. Airborne Catcher: A player that leaves the playing surface from inbounds-prior to catching?
If the ball is controlled while airborne and before going out of bounds, the catch is legal. If an airborne player lands out of bounds they are immediately OUT. Note: In this case, if control is demonstrated before landing out of bounds both the thrower and catcher are OUT? A player that contacts is hit with a live thrown ball inbounds and in an attempt to catch it leaves the floor, the player must control the ball with one foot inbounds for the catch to be legal.
Note: A player may not become airborne even if they control the ball while airborne following the initial contact with the live ball and subsequently land out of bounds. The player must land inbounds. A player shall not have any part of their body cross over the center-line and contact the ground on their opponents? Most of the time players use the best playing surface available.
A dodgeball court should always have a center line marked out separating the two halves. The center line divides the court into two 30 feet square areas. It forms the ' neutral zone ' in the middle of the two sides. According to UK dodgeball regulation the court gets divided into two areas. Each area measures 30 feet by 30 feet 9.
There is a 4 feet 'neutral' zone 1. That means a dodgeball court measures similar in size to a volleyball court. But, court dimensions vary depending on the actual venue. All ' live players ' must remain inside the court boundaries at all times. They should leave the playing surface when they are out of the game.
Often there are two return areas where players can wait to rejoin the game. None of the ' killed players ' can fetch or retrieve the balls from outside of the court area.
In most cases players designate extra ball boys or ball girls for retrieving overshot balls.
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