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Hooking/hacking is a problem area. Taking a wind-up and smacking someone's mallet away is extremely frustrating to the player on the receiving end but I think a well-placed hook or pin (not a hit) on a mallet should be OK. In a 50/50 situation or in direct competition for a loose ball then I think it's fine but holding a player back when you've got no chance to get to the ball is awful, as Jono says it's basically admitting that you've lost the ball and are trying to compensate for that.