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Re: Possession and Herding

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
Not official from a team, but the simplest way would be to suddenly stop briefly a time or two. Yeah, you might lose a ball when you resumed herding, but you'd lose the equivalent of one by getting a penalty.
We were thinking of doing the same. Our co-pilot would be a big aid to make sure we weren't in violation, and if for a moment we were inadvertently possessing more than one ball, he/she would alert the driver to 'back off' and rectify the situation, either by spinning or going in reverse, etc. True, we could lose the 'original possessed ball', but we're counting on the referees to notice the "another ball wanted to be possessed by us, but we tried to turn away" maneuver and give us the benefit of the incidental situation.