I like a bit of clever hooking before a shot or whatever, I could live without the hitting of mallets if they're being used to tripod.
Me too, but it's really rare, whereas horrendous hacking or just ugly 'mallet tapping' is commonplace and gets worse as tournaments progress. So there would be a net benefit to banning it all - the tough thing (I guess) is differentiating between incidental/accidental contact and intentional contact... But to ignore the issue because of that seems like a cop out.
Me too, but it's really rare, whereas horrendous hacking or just ugly 'mallet tapping' is commonplace and gets worse as tournaments progress. So there would be a net benefit to banning it all - the tough thing (I guess) is differentiating between incidental/accidental contact and intentional contact... But to ignore the issue because of that seems like a cop out.