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We played a small tourney in Nantes this weekend with the NAH ruleset (we had it printed and with a nice rigid cover - and even I read it!).
Quality of reffing was pretty good, esp when Hugo was doing it.
My personal opinion is:
at this stage, with the new rules not yet understood/respected, it creates a lot of whistling and game interruptions, which makes for a less interesting sport to watch. Maybe with time this won't happen so often, but right now it interfered too much with the flow
the high sticking rule is total bullshit. I've said it before and I'll say it again, no-one ever got hurt a player lifting his mallet to catch the occasional flying ball. Absolute waste of time. Hard reverse backshots are way more dangerous, I'll keep my face cage for that, thanks.
the interference rule works and is easy to understand
hacking was kinda fun, I miss it.
hooking has to be kept part of polo. It adds excitement to the game : one of my favorite things to see is when a player does a fast breakaway, thinks he can have a shot on an open goal or on a lone goalie, and just as he is about to shoot, SNAP a defender rushing from behind hooks his mallet and changes the course of the game. Why on earth would we want to ban this??
No arm extension, arms next to the body : why not, but short players can circumvent this by lifting the forearm or shoulders of opponents with their shoulders, just as we ride next to them and are way below by nature. Woods took a pretty nasty fall today, as I did exactly that to him. I felt bad, but it wasn't called.
Interfering with goalie: not clear if bike to bike contact counts as interference? Woods did the classic "front wheel opener" to me, by forcing his front wheel against mine and leaving a small gap for his teammate to score between my bike and the post. The goal wasn't counted, I was half happy it didn't count, half unhappy as I always thought it was a clever offense move.
voila.