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It definitely started as scooping, but it seemed like there was a moment of carrying once he had hold of it, the sweet tricks are sweet but if that mallet stops moving and the ball is still attached then it ain't centripetal force keeping it there. The first bit is a good point though, I'd say the ball is still quite obviously airborne but the rule isn't so clear on whether it means a ball that comes towards you in the air and you attempt to contact it, or a ball you have put there midway through a sweet trick. Luca is obviously awesome at doing this (and everything else) but when you get people swinging around a mallet at head height and above trying to keep a ball on the end of it in a crowd of people then someone will get hit it the face, possibly quite hard. If the high sticking rule doesn't apply to this I think it should, although I also think you should be allowed to grab a ball out of the air if there are no faces nearby to accidentally smack.