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Your forearms and shoulders can be used to protect your cockpit/space. Shoulders can also be used for tussling for the breaking line and checking at the boards. If you meet arms/shoulders then a bit of "argy bargy" is fine, if you're trying to play player's off their bikes it will be called. Hoping around to free yourself from another player's bike is fine, hopping into another player's bike isn't fine.
Any kind of elbow will be penalised, as will forearms putting pressure on another player's bars, dodgy pushing, shoulder checking from behind/out of nowhere, etc.
Basically the same old "play the ball", "fight for your space/lines", but avoid trying to play people off their bikes. Controlled aggression, skillful moves, etc... London has it down for the most part in my opinion.
Ask questions of your ref if you're unsure of anything pre-game, get them to clarify their stance on different rules if you want (hopefully everything will be consistent throughout the tournament)?