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That seems like a weird rule to me - practically encourages elbowing people. The diagram shows both people are parallel. Turn the left-hand guy a few degrees either way and he's bowling in, elbows-out.
I also wish checking was banned - it causes all sorts of contention and even a theoretically 'safe', parallel, shoulder-to-shoulder check often causes someone to have a fairly rough crash; falling onto/into their opponent's bike or the barriers. It also promotes the 'win by being more of a dick than the next guy' ethos, espoused by loads of already good players who hack the fuck out each other, dolphin slap all over the place, double-d and block block block.
I get that it's hard to write fair rules though, and my beef is as much about subjective style as safety, so all that is irrelevant.