Question about going in reverse

[Brad Voracek]

... I have another question on this, I know if we completely cross the line we aren't allowed to go back over it, but say we are on a line, in two quadrants at once, are we allowed to retreat to the previous quadrant without getting a penalty?


If the answer is no, this kind of sucks. At SCRRF, even though there were no referee's and it may have been more rough than an actual event, we were in the process of lining up to hurdle and more times than one got "bumped gently to pass" and got knocked over the line, and therefore if we were to move backwards we would get a penalty, even though we got hit?


Thanks in advance.