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Re: Gears: vigorously placing vs. launching

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Originally Posted by Fields View Post
The fall is not what I'm saying will draw the foul. Sorry for wording it poorly.

What I meant was something to the effect of, if you could consistently stop two feet short of the lift and have the gear "fall" and land on the lift, then you are intentionally launching the gear, whether by mechanism or the frame itself.
You'd see a lot of referee discrepancy over calling that as "throwing in a forceful way". It certainly isn't under the rest of the definition of launching since "LAUNCHING is defined as shooting in the air, kicking or rolling across the floor with an active mechanism, or throwing in a forceful way."

I'm trying to think of a follow-up Q&A phrasing for "throwing in a forceful way" that won't return the dreaded Your Higher Beings Will Not Comment on Hypothetical Situations answer. Maybe something about whether "forceful" requires imparting an additional parallel force component rather than failing to impede existent momentum.
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